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... & McGreevy (ed) Women and Poverty in the Third World . Johns Hopkins Univ Press. SOUTH ASIA BULLETIN, Vol. VI No. 1, Sprlng 1986. WOMEN: WORK, WELFARE AND STATUS. FORCES OF TRADITION AND CHANGE...

...Raphael Chijioke Njoku Holger Weiss ed. Stockholm: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 2002. Pp. 189. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 2004 Book Reviews Holger Weiss ed. Social Welfare in Muslim Societies in Af- view of this nature cannot do justice to all...

...Margaret Little; Lynne Marks This article suggests that the nature of the neoliberal state needs to be more fully explored. Our research on two regional welfare policies in Canada over the past three decades reveals that neoliberal regional states can differ quite remarkably in how they include...

...Roxana Maria Arăş [email protected] [email protected] Copyright © 2025 by Duke University Press 2025 Drawing from ethnographic research conducted at an Orthodox sociomedical center in Beirut, this article investigates welfare practices situated at the intersection of lived...

... of “free housing” for urban citizens. In linking air monetization, slums, and welfare, this article explores the contradictions that emerge when the subnational state relies on air monetization to fulfil its social-welfare obligations. It particularly focuses on the World Bank's infrastructure-resettlement...

...You-me Park In this essay, I explore the difficulties of conceptualizing and implementing compensation for Korean comfort women by focusing on the problematic and anxious relationship between two concepts: women's “well-being/welfare” and “shame.” I investigate what these comfort women are imagined...

... of welfarism, during the unprecedented emergency of the 1970s. Noting the vintage of certain seemingly exceptional expedients of the social during this era, Hewage claims that they illuminate the distinctive temporality of a postcolonial reason of state. The essay foregrounds postcolonial demands...

...Berna Turam; Monica M. Ringer In both media accounts and scholarship, contemporary Turkey draws much attention as a hotbed of contestation between Islamists and secularists. Indeed, the ban of the popularly elected Islamist Welfare Party and of the headscarf in universities in 1998 reinforced...

.... Muslim elites forced the British to provide welfare for poor pilgrims who conducted the pilgrimage over land through Sudan and then undertook their own relief and reform as means to resist national integration with Southern Nigeria and bolster their reputation and influence in the Muslim world. Muslim...

...- dant promise of the developmental state: welfare. The engagements that are embedded in auto - construction are complex. They work through the ballot box but also through resistance and protest. They call upon the law and planning but also seek to evade it. They work with the dif- ferent institutions...

... developed capitalist countries and through the international agencies they influ- ence is credited to the Washington Consensus, which projected this new orthodoxy onto Ford- ist welfare states and deeply entrenched import-substitution...

... also scrutinized the internally contradictory and disciplinary apparatuses of welfare policies. Across various regions, femi- nists are contesting both the paring down of the state’s welfare responsibilities and the inten- sification of security functions in post-­9 /11 geopolitical alliances. When...

... of economic strength, and power, and the distribution of responsibility for challenged international standing reshaped social welfare and public services. Ottoman philanthropy, while the changes that Two...

... of a “welfare consciousness” and the non-clerical intellectual thought contributed to the development of a rentier mentality eroded the bonds clerical ideological victory, albeit unintentionally...

... to the ratcheting up of state expenditure not only in the domain of security  —  however problematically that term is construed, as Hagar Kotef and You-me Park find  —  but also in welfare management, as Margaret Little and Lynne...

... in the traditional areas of local welfare organization. embroidery and sewing, and also encourages the pro- Shah Kot appears to be entirely atypical of the aver- duction of handloom cotton cloth. The second project, age Punjabi village. The landlords of the area all belong started in 1975 in the village...

... or an Islamic au- 1930s.48 Yet the recent intensifi cation of polar- thenticity as an alternative to the perils of capi- ization between Islamic and secular identities talist Western modernity. started when the Islamist Welfare Party received...

... tario. Her publications include include publications Her tario. On Queen’sat Kingston, studies University, cal women’s to politi and appointed jointly studies She is and retraining. reform, welfare/workfare on mothers is single welfare, demic focus whose...

... unmentionable hardship in order to send faced by migrant workers. The objectives of the money to their husbands for the welfare of the children, committee are: in particular. Investigations reveal that while some 1. To provide prospective migrant workers with husbands take great pains to make...

... locally grounded grassroots organi- a Turkish Daily News reporter who was at Yalova, zations, which resulted in the election of located close to the epicenter of the earthquake the Islamic Welfare Party. As the coalition gov- when it hit, criticized the lack of response he ernment headed by Prime...