Cross-disciplinary workshop: Cultures and emotions in the welfare state

Welfare states are more than social spending and social security schemes.
Welfare states are also results of cultural and emotional underpinnings – as well as welfare states shape cultures and emotional reactions. This is not a new claim – even though we sometimes forget when debating technical solutions to the Grand Challenges or the financial sustainability of welfare states. Scholars have – among other things - highlighted the importance of religion for welfare regimes – or pointed out how welfare states (re)shape dependency cultures or affect ideas about gender and families. Or demonstrated how emotional mobilization for change can be closely connected to experiences, feelings, culture, or even specific cultural artifacts.
 
The purpose of the workshop is to discuss such matters – and how to study them. The discussion will be based on Professor Cathie Jo Martins DIAS lecture ‘What we talk about when we talk about poverty’, taking place 11.15-12.15 in the DIAS auditorium.


The workshop will include three presentations:
Peter Starke & Laust Lund Elbek: ‘Tryghed’ and Security as evocative terms in Scandinavia

Emily Hogg: Literature and Feminized Work

Cecilie Bjerre & Klaus Petersen: Presentation of the project ‘The Danish Family Revolution: Experiences and Institutions (FREI)’



Open for all interested …
Coffee and cake will be served.

Registration for workshop to: lenevivi@sdu.dk