Fiona Dukelow
Biographic Data
| ID | 4239082 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fiona Dukelow |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fiona |
| FAMILY NAME | Dukelow |
| SIGNATURE | DUKELOW F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College Cork |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3800-2653 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 70 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Carefully capacitating? Agentic capacity and coercion in the activation of lone mothers in Ireland
This article assesses whether recent Irish activation reforms for lone parents’ function as capacitating elements of a social investment (SI) strategy. Although activation is presented as evidence of Ireland’s shift towards SI, our analysis questions this claim using the concept of agentic capacity – the structured conditions enabling individuals to balance care, employment, and education. Drawing on two small-scale studies, we centre lived exper…
Ireland’s Well-being Framework: Going beyond growth
This article situates and critiques Ireland’s Well-being Framework (WBF) within the discourse and developments on the well-being economy as a means of transitioning to sustainable welfare and a post-growth society. This refers to the reform of welfare states and introduction of eco-social policies based on achieving well-being by meeting basic human needs for all within planetary boundaries. The article engages with the question of whether the we…
An Eco-Social Careful Political Economy: Making the Links between Care, Equality, and Climate
Some Useful Sources
Stigma in the context of welfare and austerity capitalism has been the subject of sustained analysis in recent years, much of which will have been reflected in this themed section. We will not reiterate all sources drawn upon here. Instead, we identify what we feel are key texts and resources ranging from the historical and foundational to more recent contributions. In keeping with the overall approach of this themed section, contributions are dr…
Introduction: Interrogating Welfare Stigma
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the 'Save PDF' action button
What Can Welfare Stigma Do
In this ‘state of the art’ review, we draw on the Irish and UK context to ask ‘what can welfare stigma do?’ Our question provokes thinking about welfare stigma not as an inevitable ‘cost’ of the structure of welfare provision, but as something that does socio-political work and which may be deliberately mobilised to do so. This, we argue, is a particularly pertinent question to ask in the Irish and UK contexts, bound together by some shared liber…
What Role for Activation in Eco-Social Policy
This article aims to bring labour market activation policy into the orbit of eco-social policy, which we can understand as sustainable welfare without growth. Activation is extensively addressed from economic and social policy perspectives; however, environmental sustainability concerns are absent. Typically, each domain, activation and sustainability, is seen as mutually exclusive. Growing debate about sustainable welfare without growth features…
Building the Future from the Present: Imagining Post-Growth, Post-Productivist Ecosocial Policy
The environment remains on the margins of social policy. Bringing degrowth literature into conversation with social policy debates about decommodification, we argue that a re-imagined decommodification remains central to addressing the social-ecological challenges we face and to forging a post-growth, post-productivist ecosocial welfare state. We explore the implications of this for re-imagining and mapping three core areas of an ecosocial welfar…
Recommodification and the Welfare State in Re/Financialised Austerity Capitalism: Further Eroding Social Citizenship
This article reviews the recommodification of social policy in the context of financialised austerity capitalism and post-crisis welfare states. It sets out an understanding of recommodification as a multiple set of processes that involve the state in labour market-making, by shaping labour’s ‘saleability’. Under conditions of finance-dominated austerity capitalism, the article argues that recent dynamics of recommodification complicate the long …
No longer ‘fit for purpose’? Consolidation and catch-up in Irish labour market policy
Discipline, debt and coercive commodification: Post-crisis neoliberalism and the welfare state in Ireland, the UK and the USA
Ireland, the UK and the USA are heterogeneous examples of liberal worlds of welfare capitalism yet all three countries were deeply implicated in the 2008 global financial crisis. Examining these three countries together provides the opportunity to further develop an international comparative political economy of instability in the context of the globalised and financialised dimensions of Anglo-liberal capitalism and disciplinary governance. Our a…
Introduction To Themed Section: Neoliberalism’s Afterlives: States Of Neoliberalism, Power And Resistance In Post-Crisis Societies
[no abstract]
Irish Social Policy
This 2nd edition of a highly respected textbook offers a comprehensive introduction to Irish social policy. It provides an accessible, critical overview taking account of significant changes over recent years. The book is organised across four key sections: 1: Traces the emergence and development of Irish social policy from its origins to the present 2: Situates the Irish case in the wider context of the politics, ideology and socio-economic fact…
Irish social policy (second edition): A critical introduction
Handbook of European Social Policy
This Handbook brings together leading scholars of European social policy to reinvigorate theoretical, conceptual and substantive debates around European welfare states and societies as well as the `social dimension' of the European Union. This unique and original collection comes together at a time of substantial economic, social and political turbulence across Europe, changing narratives, ideas and attitudes towards welfare, increasing instituti…
The Irish Welfare State in the Twenty-First Century
In this chapter, Ó hAdhmaill argues that responses to the global economic crisis which emerged in 2008 reflected a dominant ideological discourse, with ‘austerity’ being a tool in a wider agenda to reassert neoliberalist thinking in the global economy and welfare provision in the richer countries. In Ireland, North and South, however, the experience of, and responses to, the crisis and ‘austerity’ were different, reflecting different social, econ…
Irish Welfare State in the Twenty-First Century: Challenges and Change
‘Pushing Against an Open Door’: Reinforcing the Neo-liberal Policy Paradigm in Ireland and the Impact of EU Intrusion
Neo-liberalism’s resilience since the financial crisis has by now become a commonplace observation. In the case of Ireland, however, it might be more apt to speak of not just neo-liberalism’s resilience but also its active reinforcement. By re-visiting Hall’s (1993) essay on paradigm change and paying particular attention to the adaptive quality of what he calls first and second order paradigm change and by reading his work against more recent sc…
Pushing against an open door’: Reinforcing the neo-liberal policy paradigm in Ireland and the impact of EU intrusion
Between Retrenchment and Recalibration: The Impact of Austerity on the Irish Social Protection System
This article analyzes the impact of austerity on the Irish social protection system. The analysis is situated in Ireland’s wider financial and economic crisis and its status as an ‘early adopter’ of an austerity response which has continued under European Union/International Monetary Fund intervention. We focus on how the crisis instigated a political narrative about the cost and design of the social protection system, leading to a programme of r…
Outlier or Model of Austerity in Europe? The Case of I rish Social Protection Reform
This article analyses the evolution of the I rish economic crisis and its implications for social protection policy, specifically for working age adults, in the context of E uropean integration and I reland's status as a small state member of the EU . We look at how neither small state characteristics, nor the position of small states in the EU , both of which raise problematic issues in their own right, are alone responsible for I reland's crisi…
Social Policy Review 24: Analysis and debate in social policy, 2012
This edition of Social Policy Review marks the 40th anniversary of a publication from the UK Social Policy Association devoted to presenting an up-to-date and diverse review of the best in social policy scholarship. It includes a special Anniversary Preface celebrating the publication's evolution and distinctive contributions. Continuing its reputation as a cutting edge, international publication in social policy, Part One of this edition analyse…
Economic Crisis and Welfare Retrenchment: Comparing Irish Policy Responses in the 1970s and 1980s with the Present
This article juxtaposes the impact of the current economic crisis on the Irish welfare state with the impact of the international economic crisis of the 1970s which had a sustained effect in Ireland during much of the 1980s. The analysis focuses on the consequences for social security programmes during both crisis periods, each of which was marked by intractable socio‐economic and budgetary pressures. However, while elements of welfare retrenchme…
Pushing against an open door’: Reinforcing the neo-liberal policy paradigm in Ireland and the impact of EU intrusion
Discipline, debt and coercive commodification: Post-crisis neoliberalism and the welfare state in Ireland, the UK and the USA
Ireland, the UK and the USA are heterogeneous examples of liberal worlds of welfare capitalism yet all three countries were deeply implicated in the 2008 global financial crisis. Examining these three countries together provides the opportunity to further develop an international comparative political economy of instability in the context of the globalised and financialised dimensions of Anglo-liberal capitalism and disciplinary governance. Our a…
Building the Future from the Present: Imagining Post-Growth, Post-Productivist Ecosocial Policy
The environment remains on the margins of social policy. Bringing degrowth literature into conversation with social policy debates about decommodification, we argue that a re-imagined decommodification remains central to addressing the social-ecological challenges we face and to forging a post-growth, post-productivist ecosocial welfare state. We explore the implications of this for re-imagining and mapping three core areas of an ecosocial welfar…
What Can Welfare Stigma Do
In this ‘state of the art’ review, we draw on the Irish and UK context to ask ‘what can welfare stigma do?’ Our question provokes thinking about welfare stigma not as an inevitable ‘cost’ of the structure of welfare provision, but as something that does socio-political work and which may be deliberately mobilised to do so. This, we argue, is a particularly pertinent question to ask in the Irish and UK contexts, bound together by some shared liber…
Economic Crisis and Welfare Retrenchment: Comparing Irish Policy Responses in the 1970s and 1980s with the Present
This article juxtaposes the impact of the current economic crisis on the Irish welfare state with the impact of the international economic crisis of the 1970s which had a sustained effect in Ireland during much of the 1980s. The analysis focuses on the consequences for social security programmes during both crisis periods, each of which was marked by intractable socio‐economic and budgetary pressures. However, while elements of welfare retrenchme…
Outlier or Model of Austerity in Europe? The Case of I rish Social Protection Reform
This article analyses the evolution of the I rish economic crisis and its implications for social protection policy, specifically for working age adults, in the context of E uropean integration and I reland's status as a small state member of the EU . We look at how neither small state characteristics, nor the position of small states in the EU , both of which raise problematic issues in their own right, are alone responsible for I reland's crisi…
Introduction: Interrogating Welfare Stigma
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the 'Save PDF' action button
What Role for Activation in Eco-Social Policy
This article aims to bring labour market activation policy into the orbit of eco-social policy, which we can understand as sustainable welfare without growth. Activation is extensively addressed from economic and social policy perspectives; however, environmental sustainability concerns are absent. Typically, each domain, activation and sustainability, is seen as mutually exclusive. Growing debate about sustainable welfare without growth features…
Introduction To Themed Section: Neoliberalism’s Afterlives: States Of Neoliberalism, Power And Resistance In Post-Crisis Societies
[no abstract]
Recommodification and the Welfare State in Re/Financialised Austerity Capitalism: Further Eroding Social Citizenship
This article reviews the recommodification of social policy in the context of financialised austerity capitalism and post-crisis welfare states. It sets out an understanding of recommodification as a multiple set of processes that involve the state in labour market-making, by shaping labour’s ‘saleability’. Under conditions of finance-dominated austerity capitalism, the article argues that recent dynamics of recommodification complicate the long …
Between Retrenchment and Recalibration: The Impact of Austerity on the Irish Social Protection System
This article analyzes the impact of austerity on the Irish social protection system. The analysis is situated in Ireland’s wider financial and economic crisis and its status as an ‘early adopter’ of an austerity response which has continued under European Union/International Monetary Fund intervention. We focus on how the crisis instigated a political narrative about the cost and design of the social protection system, leading to a programme of r…
Economic Crisis and Welfare Retrenchment: Comparing Irish Policy Responses in the 1970s and 1980s with the Present
This article juxtaposes the impact of the current economic crisis on the Irish welfare state with the impact of the international economic crisis of the 1970s which had a sustained effect in Ireland during much of the 1980s. The analysis focuses on the consequences for social security programmes during both crisis periods, each of which was marked by intractable socio‐economic and budgetary pressures. However, while elements of welfare retrenchme…
Social Policy Review 24: Analysis and debate in social policy, 2012
This edition of Social Policy Review marks the 40th anniversary of a publication from the UK Social Policy Association devoted to presenting an up-to-date and diverse review of the best in social policy scholarship. It includes a special Anniversary Preface celebrating the publication's evolution and distinctive contributions. Continuing its reputation as a cutting edge, international publication in social policy, Part One of this edition analyse…
Pushing against an open door’: Reinforcing the neo-liberal policy paradigm in Ireland and the impact of EU intrusion
Between Retrenchment and Recalibration: The Impact of Austerity on the Irish Social Protection System
This article analyzes the impact of austerity on the Irish social protection system. The analysis is situated in Ireland’s wider financial and economic crisis and its status as an ‘early adopter’ of an austerity response which has continued under European Union/International Monetary Fund intervention. We focus on how the crisis instigated a political narrative about the cost and design of the social protection system, leading to a programme of r…
Outlier or Model of Austerity in Europe? The Case of I rish Social Protection Reform
This article analyses the evolution of the I rish economic crisis and its implications for social protection policy, specifically for working age adults, in the context of E uropean integration and I reland's status as a small state member of the EU . We look at how neither small state characteristics, nor the position of small states in the EU , both of which raise problematic issues in their own right, are alone responsible for I reland's crisi…
The Irish Welfare State in the Twenty-First Century
In this chapter, Ó hAdhmaill argues that responses to the global economic crisis which emerged in 2008 reflected a dominant ideological discourse, with ‘austerity’ being a tool in a wider agenda to reassert neoliberalist thinking in the global economy and welfare provision in the richer countries. In Ireland, North and South, however, the experience of, and responses to, the crisis and ‘austerity’ were different, reflecting different social, econ…
Irish Welfare State in the Twenty-First Century: Challenges and Change
‘Pushing Against an Open Door’: Reinforcing the Neo-liberal Policy Paradigm in Ireland and the Impact of EU Intrusion
Neo-liberalism’s resilience since the financial crisis has by now become a commonplace observation. In the case of Ireland, however, it might be more apt to speak of not just neo-liberalism’s resilience but also its active reinforcement. By re-visiting Hall’s (1993) essay on paradigm change and paying particular attention to the adaptive quality of what he calls first and second order paradigm change and by reading his work against more recent sc…
Irish Social Policy
This 2nd edition of a highly respected textbook offers a comprehensive introduction to Irish social policy. It provides an accessible, critical overview taking account of significant changes over recent years. The book is organised across four key sections: 1: Traces the emergence and development of Irish social policy from its origins to the present 2: Situates the Irish case in the wider context of the politics, ideology and socio-economic fact…
Irish social policy (second edition): A critical introduction
Handbook of European Social Policy
This Handbook brings together leading scholars of European social policy to reinvigorate theoretical, conceptual and substantive debates around European welfare states and societies as well as the `social dimension' of the European Union. This unique and original collection comes together at a time of substantial economic, social and political turbulence across Europe, changing narratives, ideas and attitudes towards welfare, increasing instituti…
No longer ‘fit for purpose’? Consolidation and catch-up in Irish labour market policy
Discipline, debt and coercive commodification: Post-crisis neoliberalism and the welfare state in Ireland, the UK and the USA
Ireland, the UK and the USA are heterogeneous examples of liberal worlds of welfare capitalism yet all three countries were deeply implicated in the 2008 global financial crisis. Examining these three countries together provides the opportunity to further develop an international comparative political economy of instability in the context of the globalised and financialised dimensions of Anglo-liberal capitalism and disciplinary governance. Our a…
Introduction To Themed Section: Neoliberalism’s Afterlives: States Of Neoliberalism, Power And Resistance In Post-Crisis Societies
[no abstract]
Recommodification and the Welfare State in Re/Financialised Austerity Capitalism: Further Eroding Social Citizenship
This article reviews the recommodification of social policy in the context of financialised austerity capitalism and post-crisis welfare states. It sets out an understanding of recommodification as a multiple set of processes that involve the state in labour market-making, by shaping labour’s ‘saleability’. Under conditions of finance-dominated austerity capitalism, the article argues that recent dynamics of recommodification complicate the long …
Some Useful Sources
Stigma in the context of welfare and austerity capitalism has been the subject of sustained analysis in recent years, much of which will have been reflected in this themed section. We will not reiterate all sources drawn upon here. Instead, we identify what we feel are key texts and resources ranging from the historical and foundational to more recent contributions. In keeping with the overall approach of this themed section, contributions are dr…
Introduction: Interrogating Welfare Stigma
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the 'Save PDF' action button
What Can Welfare Stigma Do
In this ‘state of the art’ review, we draw on the Irish and UK context to ask ‘what can welfare stigma do?’ Our question provokes thinking about welfare stigma not as an inevitable ‘cost’ of the structure of welfare provision, but as something that does socio-political work and which may be deliberately mobilised to do so. This, we argue, is a particularly pertinent question to ask in the Irish and UK contexts, bound together by some shared liber…
What Role for Activation in Eco-Social Policy
This article aims to bring labour market activation policy into the orbit of eco-social policy, which we can understand as sustainable welfare without growth. Activation is extensively addressed from economic and social policy perspectives; however, environmental sustainability concerns are absent. Typically, each domain, activation and sustainability, is seen as mutually exclusive. Growing debate about sustainable welfare without growth features…
Building the Future from the Present: Imagining Post-Growth, Post-Productivist Ecosocial Policy
The environment remains on the margins of social policy. Bringing degrowth literature into conversation with social policy debates about decommodification, we argue that a re-imagined decommodification remains central to addressing the social-ecological challenges we face and to forging a post-growth, post-productivist ecosocial welfare state. We explore the implications of this for re-imagining and mapping three core areas of an ecosocial welfar…
An Eco-Social Careful Political Economy: Making the Links between Care, Equality, and Climate
Ireland’s Well-being Framework: Going beyond growth
This article situates and critiques Ireland’s Well-being Framework (WBF) within the discourse and developments on the well-being economy as a means of transitioning to sustainable welfare and a post-growth society. This refers to the reform of welfare states and introduction of eco-social policies based on achieving well-being by meeting basic human needs for all within planetary boundaries. The article engages with the question of whether the we…
Carefully capacitating? Agentic capacity and coercion in the activation of lone mothers in Ireland
This article assesses whether recent Irish activation reforms for lone parents’ function as capacitating elements of a social investment (SI) strategy. Although activation is presented as evidence of Ireland’s shift towards SI, our analysis questions this claim using the concept of agentic capacity – the structured conditions enabling individuals to balance care, employment, and education. Drawing on two small-scale studies, we centre lived exper…
Political science (19 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (18 works) · Economics (14 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (12 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Irish (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (9 works) · Political economy (9 works) · Politics (9 works)