Sustainable Welfare & Eco-Social Policy Network: 5th Colloquium

You are warmly welcome to join the fifth Colloquium organised by the Sustainable Welfare & Eco-Social Policy Network on Wednesday, 29th November at 14.00 – 15.30 (Central European Time) via Zoom: https://tuni.zoom.us/j/4243508254

This colloquium is dedicated to presenting and discussing hot-off-the-press research publications on sustainable welfare and eco-social policy in the style of a meet-the-author event.

Following their academic paper session at the ESEE Conference in Pisa in June 2022, Martin Fritz (Germany) and Jayeon Lee (Sweden) have edited a Special Issue entitled “Tackling inequality and providing sustainable welfare through eco-social policies” in the European Journal of Social Security. They will first introduce the framework of the special issue and the notion of a ‘sustainable welfare paradigm’.

Next, authors of the newly published articles will present their work in 5-minute pitches. The papers included in the special issue concretize eco-social policies with empirical cases from various countries, identify policy challenges, and provide important knowledge to assess the potential of eco-social policies. Please see the list of contributions below. The audience will have the opportunity to ask questions and make comments between the presentations.

The contributions:

• Peaks and gaps in eco-social policy and sustainable welfare: A systematic literature map of the research landscape by Katharina Bohnenberger (confirmed)
• Harnessing welfare state theories to explain the emergence of eco-social policies by Matteo Mandelli (confirmed)
• Doughnuts for Strategies: a tool for an emerging sustainable welfare paradigm by Mladen Domazet, Máté Fischer and Alexandra Köves (confirmed)
• An eco-social solution to energy poverty? Substance and symbolism in England’s use of domestic energy efficiency policy to achieve social and environmental synergies, 1997-2023 by Paul Bridgen (not present)
• The role of work and social protection systems in social-ecological transformations: Insights from deliberative citizen forums in Sweden by Jayeon Lee and Max Koch (confirmed)
• Working time reduction: employers’ perspective and implications for social security – ten cases from Hungary by Miklós Antal, Kata Hidasi and Tímea Venczel (confirmed)
• Towards an ecowelfare state: enabling factors for transformative eco-social initiatives by Tuuli Hirvilammi, Juha Peltomaa, Matti Pihlajamaa and Sanna Tiilikainen (confirmed)
• The conflicts of ecological transition on the ground and the role of eco-social policies: lessons from Italian case studies by Marta Bonetti and Matteo Villa (confirmed)
• Support for eco-social policy from a class perspective: responsibilities, redistribution, regulation and rights by Martin Fritz and Dennis Eversberg (confirmed)
• Eco-Social Policy in the Global Political Economy: Analysing Shifting Discourses of Agricultural Subsidies by Robin Schulze Waltrup, Madeleine Moore and Tim Paulsen (confirmed)
• Mapping the Social Dimension of the European Green Deal by Katharina Zimmermann and Vincent Gengnagel (confirmed)

Hope to meet many of you online after a long break! Feel free to share the event with your colleagues!

No registration is required. The event will be recorded and the recording will later be available here.

Organizer of the event: Sustainable Welfare & Eco-Social Policy Network