Emilia Dowling
Biographic Data
| ID | 283344 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emilia Dowling |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emilia |
| FAMILY NAME | Dowling |
| SIGNATURE | DOWLING E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Middlesex University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8710-8265 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 154 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Austrian exceptionalism in the financialisation of housing and care: A precarious interplay of bulwarks and conduits
Home Care for Sale: The Transnational Brokering of Senior Care in Europe
The boundary-work of volunteering and the value of unwaged work in the dual crisis of care
Based on qualitative research into formal volunteering in semi-rural towns in the north-east and south-west of Germany, this article analyses the consequences of a turn to volunteering in the German welfare regime. The article explores the meaning and function of volunteering for volunteers, organisations and the welfare regime, and identifies a series of conflicting goals. While fiscal pressures and staff shortages may lead to an instrumental re…
Nachhaltige Krisenbewältigung heißt strukturelle Bedingungen angehen
In diesem Artikel werden drei strukturelle Krisen im Bereich Care, Ökologie und soziale Ungleichheit diskutiert und ihre systemischen Logiken nachgezeichnet. Dabei werden die Effekte der Finanzialisierung und das Problem aufkommender Autoritarismen als Reaktionen auf sich vertiefende Krisen verstanden. Es wird argumentiert, dass eine nachhaltige Krisenbewältigung eine Auseinandersetzung mit den strukturellen Bedingungen kapitalistischer Krisenten…
The social structure of Brexit and the crisis of globalisation: Towards an analysis of the disjuncture
Despite much protracted debate, there is still no consensus among social scientists as to why a majority of Britons voted to leave the European Union in June 2016. This paper constructs a sociology of Brexit and seeks to interpret the fractious constellations on either side of the Brexit disjuncture. Taking as its point of the departure the resurgence of sociological interest in class in the wake of Brexit and with the rise of right-wing populism…
Confronting capital’s care fix: Care Through the Lens of Democracy
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose to expand the political economic understanding of a “fix”, that is, capital’s ability to overcome crises of profitability through a displacement of its crisis tendencies, to include an analytical attention to the gendered, sexualised and racialised unwaged and underpaid (caring) labour that reproduces labour power within a capitalist economy. Design/methodology/approach A “care fix”, the author argu…
Valorised but not valued? Affective remuneration, social reproduction and feminist politics beyond the crisis
In the wake of austerity: Social impact bonds and the financialisation of the welfare state in Britain
This paper provides an analysis of the financialisation of the British welfare state. In a continuation of neo-liberal privatisation and labour market activation, the financialised welfare state pursues a policy of welfare retrenchment, while engaging in forms of social engineering aimed at producing self-responsibilised individuals and communities who are financially literate, ‘investment-ready’ and economically productive. New financial instrum…
Harnessing the Social: State, Crisis and (Big) Society
The article analyses the UK government's plans to create a social investment market. The Big Society as political economy is understood as a response to three aspects of a multi-faceted, global crisis: a crisis of capital accumulation; a crisis of social reproduction; and, a fiscal crisis of the state. While the neoliberal state is retreating from the sphere of social reproduction, further off-loading the costs of social reproduction onto the unw…
The problem with work: Feminism, Marxism, antiwork politics, and postwork imaginaries
This article is a review of the book, The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries by Kathi Weeks, Durham, NC and London, Duke University Press, 2011, 287pp., ISBN 9780822351122 E
Occupy London
This essay brings together the authors' experiences and observations with reflections gathered in an open workshop about Occupy London organized under the banner of the Tent City University working group. The essay posits Occupy London not as one entity but as an organizing process located in more than one area within the City of London. They see Occupy London as both a powerful idea and as a material practice. The authors reflect on the social c…
The Waitress: On Affect, Method and (Re)presentation
This article engages the embodied experiences of the waitress with the question of how to (re)present these in their affective dimensions. In service work, the body needs to be able to combine conflicting capacities; to lure, entice and satisfy on the one hand and to be resilient, fast and astute on the other. If an attention to affect allows a shift from the question of what a phenomenon means or represents, to that of what a phenomenon does, th…
WSF, ethics and pedagogy
In this paper we intend to explore the potential of the WSF as a space to promote the emergence of a new culture of politics - as a new way of making meaning about the world, of "thinking beyond modernity" and "imagining otherwise". We start with an analysis of the ethics of the Forum and what we see as limitations for creating the conditions of nurturing such a way of thinking politics. We then examine the types of ethics, vision of the other wo…
The Family and the School: A Joint Systems Approach to Problems with Children
In the wake of austerity: Social impact bonds and the financialisation of the welfare state in Britain
This paper provides an analysis of the financialisation of the British welfare state. In a continuation of neo-liberal privatisation and labour market activation, the financialised welfare state pursues a policy of welfare retrenchment, while engaging in forms of social engineering aimed at producing self-responsibilised individuals and communities who are financially literate, ‘investment-ready’ and economically productive. New financial instrum…
Harnessing the Social: State, Crisis and (Big) Society
The article analyses the UK government's plans to create a social investment market. The Big Society as political economy is understood as a response to three aspects of a multi-faceted, global crisis: a crisis of capital accumulation; a crisis of social reproduction; and, a fiscal crisis of the state. While the neoliberal state is retreating from the sphere of social reproduction, further off-loading the costs of social reproduction onto the unw…
Valorised but not valued? Affective remuneration, social reproduction and feminist politics beyond the crisis
The Waitress: On Affect, Method and (Re)presentation
This article engages the embodied experiences of the waitress with the question of how to (re)present these in their affective dimensions. In service work, the body needs to be able to combine conflicting capacities; to lure, entice and satisfy on the one hand and to be resilient, fast and astute on the other. If an attention to affect allows a shift from the question of what a phenomenon means or represents, to that of what a phenomenon does, th…
Confronting capital’s care fix: Care Through the Lens of Democracy
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose to expand the political economic understanding of a “fix”, that is, capital’s ability to overcome crises of profitability through a displacement of its crisis tendencies, to include an analytical attention to the gendered, sexualised and racialised unwaged and underpaid (caring) labour that reproduces labour power within a capitalist economy. Design/methodology/approach A “care fix”, the author argu…
WSF, ethics and pedagogy
In this paper we intend to explore the potential of the WSF as a space to promote the emergence of a new culture of politics - as a new way of making meaning about the world, of "thinking beyond modernity" and "imagining otherwise". We start with an analysis of the ethics of the Forum and what we see as limitations for creating the conditions of nurturing such a way of thinking politics. We then examine the types of ethics, vision of the other wo…
Home Care for Sale: The Transnational Brokering of Senior Care in Europe
The boundary-work of volunteering and the value of unwaged work in the dual crisis of care
Based on qualitative research into formal volunteering in semi-rural towns in the north-east and south-west of Germany, this article analyses the consequences of a turn to volunteering in the German welfare regime. The article explores the meaning and function of volunteering for volunteers, organisations and the welfare regime, and identifies a series of conflicting goals. While fiscal pressures and staff shortages may lead to an instrumental re…
Occupy London
This essay brings together the authors' experiences and observations with reflections gathered in an open workshop about Occupy London organized under the banner of the Tent City University working group. The essay posits Occupy London not as one entity but as an organizing process located in more than one area within the City of London. They see Occupy London as both a powerful idea and as a material practice. The authors reflect on the social c…
The Family and the School: A Joint Systems Approach to Problems with Children
WSF, ethics and pedagogy
In this paper we intend to explore the potential of the WSF as a space to promote the emergence of a new culture of politics - as a new way of making meaning about the world, of "thinking beyond modernity" and "imagining otherwise". We start with an analysis of the ethics of the Forum and what we see as limitations for creating the conditions of nurturing such a way of thinking politics. We then examine the types of ethics, vision of the other wo…
Occupy London
This essay brings together the authors' experiences and observations with reflections gathered in an open workshop about Occupy London organized under the banner of the Tent City University working group. The essay posits Occupy London not as one entity but as an organizing process located in more than one area within the City of London. They see Occupy London as both a powerful idea and as a material practice. The authors reflect on the social c…
The Waitress: On Affect, Method and (Re)presentation
This article engages the embodied experiences of the waitress with the question of how to (re)present these in their affective dimensions. In service work, the body needs to be able to combine conflicting capacities; to lure, entice and satisfy on the one hand and to be resilient, fast and astute on the other. If an attention to affect allows a shift from the question of what a phenomenon means or represents, to that of what a phenomenon does, th…
The problem with work: Feminism, Marxism, antiwork politics, and postwork imaginaries
This article is a review of the book, The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries by Kathi Weeks, Durham, NC and London, Duke University Press, 2011, 287pp., ISBN 9780822351122 E
Harnessing the Social: State, Crisis and (Big) Society
The article analyses the UK government's plans to create a social investment market. The Big Society as political economy is understood as a response to three aspects of a multi-faceted, global crisis: a crisis of capital accumulation; a crisis of social reproduction; and, a fiscal crisis of the state. While the neoliberal state is retreating from the sphere of social reproduction, further off-loading the costs of social reproduction onto the unw…
Valorised but not valued? Affective remuneration, social reproduction and feminist politics beyond the crisis
In the wake of austerity: Social impact bonds and the financialisation of the welfare state in Britain
This paper provides an analysis of the financialisation of the British welfare state. In a continuation of neo-liberal privatisation and labour market activation, the financialised welfare state pursues a policy of welfare retrenchment, while engaging in forms of social engineering aimed at producing self-responsibilised individuals and communities who are financially literate, ‘investment-ready’ and economically productive. New financial instrum…
Confronting capital’s care fix: Care Through the Lens of Democracy
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose to expand the political economic understanding of a “fix”, that is, capital’s ability to overcome crises of profitability through a displacement of its crisis tendencies, to include an analytical attention to the gendered, sexualised and racialised unwaged and underpaid (caring) labour that reproduces labour power within a capitalist economy. Design/methodology/approach A “care fix”, the author argu…
The social structure of Brexit and the crisis of globalisation: Towards an analysis of the disjuncture
Despite much protracted debate, there is still no consensus among social scientists as to why a majority of Britons voted to leave the European Union in June 2016. This paper constructs a sociology of Brexit and seeks to interpret the fractious constellations on either side of the Brexit disjuncture. Taking as its point of the departure the resurgence of sociological interest in class in the wake of Brexit and with the rise of right-wing populism…
Nachhaltige Krisenbewältigung heißt strukturelle Bedingungen angehen
In diesem Artikel werden drei strukturelle Krisen im Bereich Care, Ökologie und soziale Ungleichheit diskutiert und ihre systemischen Logiken nachgezeichnet. Dabei werden die Effekte der Finanzialisierung und das Problem aufkommender Autoritarismen als Reaktionen auf sich vertiefende Krisen verstanden. Es wird argumentiert, dass eine nachhaltige Krisenbewältigung eine Auseinandersetzung mit den strukturellen Bedingungen kapitalistischer Krisenten…
The boundary-work of volunteering and the value of unwaged work in the dual crisis of care
Based on qualitative research into formal volunteering in semi-rural towns in the north-east and south-west of Germany, this article analyses the consequences of a turn to volunteering in the German welfare regime. The article explores the meaning and function of volunteering for volunteers, organisations and the welfare regime, and identifies a series of conflicting goals. While fiscal pressures and staff shortages may lead to an instrumental re…
Austrian exceptionalism in the financialisation of housing and care: A precarious interplay of bulwarks and conduits
Home Care for Sale: The Transnational Brokering of Senior Care in Europe
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