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Critical Social Policy @csp-journal.bsky.social · 1d

CSP invites activists, advocates, practitioners, and users of service groups to submit contributions about how they work to end social injustice for the Living Activism section of the journal
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CSP: Living Activism

Critical Social Policy invites submissions for its living activism section of the journal

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Critical Social Policy @csp-journal.bsky.social · 7d

The latest episode of the CSP podcast is now live. In this episode, George Ygarza shares his experience in organising a People's Assembly, a model of governance & direct democracy, & the tensions between academic & grassroots approaches to research & activism.

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Critical Social Policy @csp-journal.bsky.social · 8d

New on the CSP blog: Who has a ‘duty to integrate’? by Gareth Mulvey
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Critical Social Policy @csp-journal.bsky.social · Aug 27

Advance article (open access): Hegemony and settler colonial subjectivities: The censure of the Israeli Union of Social Workers (IUSW) by the International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW) by Paul Michael Garrett
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Critical Social Policy @csp-journal.bsky.social · Aug 21

Advance article (open access): Understanding the interplay of financial change, debt, and lone parenthood in the UK: A secondary mixed methods analysis by Graham Burvill @drgrahamburvill.bsky.social‬
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Critical Social Policy @csp-journal.bsky.social · Aug 18

Advance article: Seeking refuge in a productivist welfare regime: Well-being of African asylum seekers/refugees in Hong Kong - 寻求庇护于生产主.义福利体制：香港非洲寻求庇护者/难民的福祉 - by P.A. Amoah, E.K. Ameyaw, A.A. Asiama, L.L.S. Ngan & M.K. Bhowmik
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Critical Social Policy @csp-journal.bsky.social · Aug 5

We are pleased to introduce the first guest post on the new CSP blog: Challenging the Two-Child Limit on Family Benefits by Ruth Patrick and Tracey Jensen
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Critical Social Policy @csp-journal.bsky.social · Jul 25

Advance article (open access): Student antiracist activism and institutionalised equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in UK universities by Hannah Jones and Ala Sirriyeh - @uncomfiest @alasirriyeh.bsky.social -
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Critical Social Policy @csp-journal.bsky.social · Jul 24

Advance commentary: Clergy sexual abuse of adults: Institutional power and legislative resistance in the United States by Lucy Huh and Gaynor I. Yancey
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Critical Social Policy @csp-journal.bsky.social · Jul 23

Advance article: Social (in)justice on the margins of paid work: Misrecognition, maldistribution and the employment of people with learning difficulties by Ruth Tarlo, Rachel Fyson, and Simon Roberts
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Critical Social Policy @csp-journal.bsky.social · Jul 18

Critical Social Policy Vol. 45, No. 3, August 1, 2025 is now available online
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Critical Social Policy - Volume 45, Number 3

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Critical Social Policy @csp-journal.bsky.social · Jun 9

Advance article (open access): Moving on: The overrepresentation of Black and minoritised households in out of area housing placements in England by Steve Iafrati, Nick Clare and Helen Lawrence
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Moving on: The overrepresentation of Black and minoritised households in out of area housing placements in England - STEVE IAFRATI, NICK CLARE, HELEN LAWRENCE, 2024

Based on freedom of information request data supplied by English local authorities, this paper identifies significant under-reporting of out of area housing pla...

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Critical Social Policy @csp-journal.bsky.social · Jun 9

Advance article (open access): Can a ‘structural competency’ approach improve the safeguarding of diverse marginalised communities from exploitation? by Rana Khazbak, Alison Gardner, Charlotte Gray and Oana Burcu
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Critical Social Policy @csp-journal.bsky.social · Jun 9

Advance article (open access): Net-widening, gap-filling, and shortcut justice: The practice of Community Protection Notices to regulate anti-social behaviour by Vicky Heap and Alex Black
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Critical Social Policy @csp-journal.bsky.social · Jun 5

Advance article: Engineering the filial self. Negotiating the moral construction of filial piety at different government levels in China by Marius Meinhof and Yiming Zhang
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Critical Social Policy @csp-journal.bsky.social · Jun 5

Advance article (open access): Some contradictions of the welfare state: Revisited by Chris Ó Rálaigh
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Some contradictions of the welfare state: Revisited - CHRIS Ó RÁLAIGH, 2025

It is now 40 years since the publication of Claus Offe's classical paper, Some Contradictions of the Modern Welfare State. Much change has occurred to the ...

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Critical Social Policy @csp-journal.bsky.social · Jun 4

Advance article (open access): Running, eyes open, into segregation: The absence of an integration strategy for Britain's elites by Gareth Mulvey
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Critical Social Policy @csp-journal.bsky.social · Jun 4

Advance article (open access): ‘Doing’ eligibility through income thresholds: Organisational practices in US financial assistance programmes for women with breast cancer by Deborah Lefkowitz
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Critical Social Policy @csp-journal.bsky.social · Jun 4

Advance article: Challenging welfare mythmaking: Caps, (mis)classification and concealment of larger families’ labour in austerity Britain by Ruth Patrick and Tracey Jensen
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Critical Social Policy @csp-journal.bsky.social · Jun 4

CSP call for articles for Themed Issue - Academia: crisis, struggle and resistance
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Call for articles for Themed Issue - Academia: crisis, struggle and resistance

Across the globe higher education and academic institutions are increasingly sites ofpolitical attack and resistance. The multifaceted and intertwined crises facing academia play out differently in di...

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Critical Social Policy @csp-journal.bsky.social · May 21

Advance article (open access): Maintaining gender inequality in wages? The case of employer organisations’ and business advocacy groups’ resistance to pay transparency legislation in Finland by Aura Sipura and Paula Koskinen Sandberg
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Critical Social Policy @csp-journal.bsky.social · May 21

Advance Living Activism article (open access): Women on the mic: Breaking women's radio silence by Jane Goetzee, Annette Rimmer and The Radio Research Group
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Critical Social Policy @csp-journal.bsky.social · May 21

The cut off for article submissions for consideration at the July EC meeting is this Friday 23rd May at 23:59 BST
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Critical Social Policy @csp-journal.bsky.social · May 12

CSP call for Themed Issue proposals:
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CSP invites Themed Issue proposals

CSP normally publishes one themed issue per year/volume on a topic which contributes to the journal’s overall remit (see aims and scope here). We welcome proposals on any topic relevant to the journal...

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Critical Social Policy @csp-journal.bsky.social · May 2

Advance article (open access): Hewers of wood and drawers of water: English subaltern education from the charity schools to the neoliberal meritocracy of widening participation by Christopher Cunningham and Colin Samson
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