Anna Wolkenhauer
Biographic Data
| ID | 6180170 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna Wolkenhauer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna |
| FAMILY NAME | Wolkenhauer |
| SIGNATURE | WOLKENHAUER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bremen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9583-554X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
What’s ‘rural’ in rural development? Interrogating internationalised visions for the African countryside
Rural development has a long history in international development practice, yet the conception of ‘rurality’ and its implications for what rural development does are rarely discussed in their own right. Based on a double-paired comparison of two North African (Morocco, Tunisia) and two Southern African (Botswana, Zambia) cases, this article investigates varying, context-specific meanings of ‘rural’ and their interaction with internationalised dev…
Social Protection
This article unpacks the expanding social protection agenda, in which promotive objectives have been added to the original welfarist or safety net aim of protection. It draws out the resulting tensions, potentials and limits, to inform a discussion of where African social protection is and is headed. After tracing several initial drivers of social assistance in Africa – structural adjustment, food insecurity and famines, HIV and AIDS, and conflic…
Neoliberalism, social policy and the state
This paper investigates the effects of the Zambian Social Cash Transfer (SCT) on the state. It aims to contribute to our deepening understanding of neoliberal social policy in Africa by teasing out how donor-driven, evidence-based policymaking and neoliberalism reinforce each other, but also by highlighting how even a poverty-focused and targeted scheme like the SCT can rehabilitate the state along two key dimensions: by forging new epistemic con…
Reflexivity in global social policy
This introduction sets the scene for the five papers of the special issue on ‘Reflexivity in Global Social Policy’. It argues that a reflexivity lens can deepen a self-critical assessment of the field and its boundaries, and contribute to more conceptual and analytical nuance. The introduction reviews existing approaches that reflect on the key building blocks of the field – ideas, terminology, and theory – and makes a case for addressing the por…
Everyday sense making and the discursive delineation of social policy space in Zambia
This article connects the notions of policy space and social contract in order to understand the importance of everyday discourse for the perceived legitimacy of social policy choices and emerging responsibilities in Zambia. Based on a Grounded Theory analysis of interview and document material, the article reconstructs common sense ideas about the limited resources of the state, from which modalities in the Social Cash Transfer programme, especi…
Neoliberalism, social policy and the state
This paper investigates the effects of the Zambian Social Cash Transfer (SCT) on the state. It aims to contribute to our deepening understanding of neoliberal social policy in Africa by teasing out how donor-driven, evidence-based policymaking and neoliberalism reinforce each other, but also by highlighting how even a poverty-focused and targeted scheme like the SCT can rehabilitate the state along two key dimensions: by forging new epistemic con…
Everyday sense making and the discursive delineation of social policy space in Zambia
This article connects the notions of policy space and social contract in order to understand the importance of everyday discourse for the perceived legitimacy of social policy choices and emerging responsibilities in Zambia. Based on a Grounded Theory analysis of interview and document material, the article reconstructs common sense ideas about the limited resources of the state, from which modalities in the Social Cash Transfer programme, especi…
Reflexivity in global social policy
This introduction sets the scene for the five papers of the special issue on ‘Reflexivity in Global Social Policy’. It argues that a reflexivity lens can deepen a self-critical assessment of the field and its boundaries, and contribute to more conceptual and analytical nuance. The introduction reviews existing approaches that reflect on the key building blocks of the field – ideas, terminology, and theory – and makes a case for addressing the por…
Everyday sense making and the discursive delineation of social policy space in Zambia
This article connects the notions of policy space and social contract in order to understand the importance of everyday discourse for the perceived legitimacy of social policy choices and emerging responsibilities in Zambia. Based on a Grounded Theory analysis of interview and document material, the article reconstructs common sense ideas about the limited resources of the state, from which modalities in the Social Cash Transfer programme, especi…
Social Protection
This article unpacks the expanding social protection agenda, in which promotive objectives have been added to the original welfarist or safety net aim of protection. It draws out the resulting tensions, potentials and limits, to inform a discussion of where African social protection is and is headed. After tracing several initial drivers of social assistance in Africa – structural adjustment, food insecurity and famines, HIV and AIDS, and conflic…
Neoliberalism, social policy and the state
This paper investigates the effects of the Zambian Social Cash Transfer (SCT) on the state. It aims to contribute to our deepening understanding of neoliberal social policy in Africa by teasing out how donor-driven, evidence-based policymaking and neoliberalism reinforce each other, but also by highlighting how even a poverty-focused and targeted scheme like the SCT can rehabilitate the state along two key dimensions: by forging new epistemic con…
What’s ‘rural’ in rural development? Interrogating internationalised visions for the African countryside
Rural development has a long history in international development practice, yet the conception of ‘rurality’ and its implications for what rural development does are rarely discussed in their own right. Based on a double-paired comparison of two North African (Morocco, Tunisia) and two Southern African (Botswana, Zambia) cases, this article investigates varying, context-specific meanings of ‘rural’ and their interaction with internationalised dev…
Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Community Development and Social Impact (2 works) · Development economics (2 works) · Economic growth (2 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Politics (2 works)