Georgia Van Toorn
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 297182 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Georgia Van Toorn |
| PRENOMES | Georgia |
| SOBRENOME | Van Toorn |
| ASSINATURA | VAN TOORN G |
| AFILIAÇÕES | UNSW Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6660-8479 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2015 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Crip Spaces For and With Disabled Filipinos
In disaster settings, disabled people are often framed as passive recipients of aid, to be integrated into pre‐existing response mechanisms. This paper challenges that framing by centring disabled bodyminds and the crip‐for‐crip strategies that sustain survival amidst chronic disaster. It foregrounds the relational practices of resistance, care and world‐making that disabled communities enact in the face of climate crisis. Workshops and interview…
The Digital Welfare State
The concept of the digital welfare state (DWS) has gained popularity in research on welfare system digitalization, but its meaning is under-theorized and largely unproblematized. Invoked without clear criteria, the concept leaves open fundamental questions about what qualifies as a DWS and why. In this article, we propose three key pillars as foundational criteria for analyses of the DWS: (1) the presence of a welfare state, (2) processes of digi…
“This robot is dictating her next steps in life”
As automated technologies, particularly artificial intelligence (AI) and automated decision-making (ADM), become integral to social life, there is growing concern about their ethical implications. While issues of accountability, transparency, and fairness dominate discussions on “ethical” AI, little attention has been given to how socially disadvantaged groups most impacted by ADM systems form ethical judgments about them. Drawing on insights fro…
What socio-cultural, emotional and relational factors shape older people's experiences of death and dying in residential aged care? A scoping review
Research internationally has revealed a range of medical and health-related issues that shape care at the end of life for people living in residential aged care facilities (RACFs), their families and the staff who care for them. Yet, less is known about the lived experiences of residents, and the broader socio-cultural, emotional and relational factors that shape experiences of dying within such settings. In this article, we present findings from…
Beyond Robodebt
Australia's Robodebt scheme, an automated debt recovery program introduced in 2016, was exposed by the Robodebt Royal Commission (RC) as a serious failure of public administration and source of significant harm for thousands of Australians. Through a critical discourse analysis (CDA) of Australian news media, this study explores whether the RC's revelations of governance failures and institutionalised stigma have sparked changes in media portraya…
Digital citizenship and disability in the covid era
The covid-19 crisis has accelerated automation and digitalization in many aspects of social life. Social distancing and lockdowns, combined with the imperative to preserve economic activity, have seen much work and education move online, while the digitalization of government services has intensified. These developments slowed the spread of covid-19 but their broader effects, both positive and negative, have been unevenly distributed. One group f…
Disablism, racism and the spectre of eugenics in digital welfare
This article explores the historical ties between the digital welfare state and eugenics, highlighting how the use of data infrastructures for classification and governance in the digital era has roots in eugenic data practices and ideas. Through an analysis of three domains of automated decision-making – child welfare, immigration and disability benefits – the article demonstrates how these automated systems perpetuate hierarchical divisions ori…
Decoding the algorithmic operations of Australia's National Disability Insurance Scheme
In recent years, Australia has embarked on a digital transformation of its social services, with the primary goal of creating user‐centric services that are more attentive to the needs of citizens. This article examines operational and technological changes within Australia's National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) as a result of this comprehensive government digital transformation strategy. It discusses the effectiveness of these changes in …
Introduction to the digital welfare state
This article introduces a special issue of the Journal of Sociology focused on critical analysis of the digital welfare state. The digitalisation of welfare policy, institutions and service delivery has led to increased scrutiny, social sorting and surveillance of welfare recipients and other marginalised groups. This collection of papers contributes to current debates about digital welfare using sociological approaches which foreground the role …
Unveiling algorithmic power
This article examines the impact of algorithmic systems on disabled people’s interactions with social services, focusing on a case study of algorithmic decision-making in Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). Through interviews and document analysis, we explore future visions and concerns related to increased automation in NDIS planning and eligibility determinations. We show that while individuals may not fully comprehend the …
Inclusion interrupted
Participatory approaches including co-design are seen as a means to address some of the challenges digital government poses for people with disability, such as unequal access and poor technological design. Yet co-design principles are rarely practiced in a meaningful way for people with disability, resulting in digital government systems that are obstructive and inaccessible to many. This paper explores the opportunities and challenges of disabil…
Marketisation and Regulatory Labour in Frontline Disability Work
In many liberal welfare states, market-based reforms aimed at enhancing competition and choice in disability services have necessitated extensive regulatory reforms to ensure quality service provision. This article explores how the changing regulatory environment surrounding an individualised funding scheme is transforming frontline disability work. Drawing on data from a survey of 2341 Australian disability support workers, the article contribut…
Safeguarding in Australia’s new disability markets
Despite significant efforts to end it, violence, abuse and neglect continue to contribute to preventable harms and deaths among people using disability services. To explore why these harms persist and what is needed to prevent them, we examine the safety-related attitudes and practices among frontline staff delivering services in the context of an individualized funding scheme, Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). Analysis of …
From being ‘at risk’ to being ‘a risk’
When young women who have grown up in contact with child protection become mothers, they shift from being regarded as a child ‘at risk’ by the child protection system, to posing ‘a risk’ to their baby. In contrast to their peers, young care leavers transition to adulthood with very few resources and little support; they typically continue to experience the economic and related adversities of their childhoods. This article draws on biographical na…
Routines of isolation? A qualitative study of informal caregiving in the context of glioma in Australia
Informal caregiving for a person living with glioma can be both rewarding and multidimensionally challenging, given the potential for debilitating symptoms, cognitive impairment or personality changes, as early as diagnosis. There is growing evidence that, due to the demands of care, experiences and feelings of loneliness and isolation among informal caregivers are widespread, and opportunities for quality or meaningful social connectedness are l…
Neoliberalism's friends, foes and fellow travellers
How and why neoliberal policies spread across political jurisdictions is a fundamental question for economic geographers and critical policy scholars. Many accounts inspired by the policy mobility approach point to neoliberalism as having a conditioning effect on the ease and speed with which policies transverse the globe. Yet the role that social movements and transnational advocacy networks play in shaping and at times facilitating neoliberal p…
Emplacing Indigeneity and rurality in neoliberal disability welfare reform
This article maps the impact of neoliberal restructuring of disability services and income support measures on Aboriginal people with disabilities living in rural areas of the West Kimberley in Australia. The international literature has extensively documented disability and Indigenous neoliberal welfare retraction measures, though as discrete areas of research. We aim to emplace the intersectional experience of such reforms by exposing their uni…
Mind the gap
A comprehensive national response to violence against women with disabilities is long overdue in Australia. Work to date suggests that the issue is endemic yet largely invisible. Responses at the national level are hampered by the lack of information regarding violence against women with disabilities due to under‐reporting and inadequate capture of the prevalence of this violence. This article explores approaches to collecting data regarding viol…
Policy claims and problem frames
This paper explores the signification of evidence-based policy as a new policy-making paradigm in Australia through a cross-case comparison of the role of evidence in two key areas: child protection and illicit drug policy. Although evidence makes certain courses of action appear valid and credible, quality evidence is not necessarily the critical factor in driving or explaining policy outcomes. Policy solutions are perceived more favourably and …
Decoding the algorithmic operations of Australia's National Disability Insurance Scheme
In recent years, Australia has embarked on a digital transformation of its social services, with the primary goal of creating user‐centric services that are more attentive to the needs of citizens. This article examines operational and technological changes within Australia's National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) as a result of this comprehensive government digital transformation strategy. It discusses the effectiveness of these changes in …
Unveiling algorithmic power
This article examines the impact of algorithmic systems on disabled people’s interactions with social services, focusing on a case study of algorithmic decision-making in Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). Through interviews and document analysis, we explore future visions and concerns related to increased automation in NDIS planning and eligibility determinations. We show that while individuals may not fully comprehend the …
Marketisation and Regulatory Labour in Frontline Disability Work
In many liberal welfare states, market-based reforms aimed at enhancing competition and choice in disability services have necessitated extensive regulatory reforms to ensure quality service provision. This article explores how the changing regulatory environment surrounding an individualised funding scheme is transforming frontline disability work. Drawing on data from a survey of 2341 Australian disability support workers, the article contribut…
Digital citizenship and disability in the covid era
The covid-19 crisis has accelerated automation and digitalization in many aspects of social life. Social distancing and lockdowns, combined with the imperative to preserve economic activity, have seen much work and education move online, while the digitalization of government services has intensified. These developments slowed the spread of covid-19 but their broader effects, both positive and negative, have been unevenly distributed. One group f…
Introduction to the digital welfare state
This article introduces a special issue of the Journal of Sociology focused on critical analysis of the digital welfare state. The digitalisation of welfare policy, institutions and service delivery has led to increased scrutiny, social sorting and surveillance of welfare recipients and other marginalised groups. This collection of papers contributes to current debates about digital welfare using sociological approaches which foreground the role …
Safeguarding in Australia’s new disability markets
Despite significant efforts to end it, violence, abuse and neglect continue to contribute to preventable harms and deaths among people using disability services. To explore why these harms persist and what is needed to prevent them, we examine the safety-related attitudes and practices among frontline staff delivering services in the context of an individualized funding scheme, Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). Analysis of …
Emplacing Indigeneity and rurality in neoliberal disability welfare reform
This article maps the impact of neoliberal restructuring of disability services and income support measures on Aboriginal people with disabilities living in rural areas of the West Kimberley in Australia. The international literature has extensively documented disability and Indigenous neoliberal welfare retraction measures, though as discrete areas of research. We aim to emplace the intersectional experience of such reforms by exposing their uni…
Routines of isolation? A qualitative study of informal caregiving in the context of glioma in Australia
Informal caregiving for a person living with glioma can be both rewarding and multidimensionally challenging, given the potential for debilitating symptoms, cognitive impairment or personality changes, as early as diagnosis. There is growing evidence that, due to the demands of care, experiences and feelings of loneliness and isolation among informal caregivers are widespread, and opportunities for quality or meaningful social connectedness are l…
Mind the gap
A comprehensive national response to violence against women with disabilities is long overdue in Australia. Work to date suggests that the issue is endemic yet largely invisible. Responses at the national level are hampered by the lack of information regarding violence against women with disabilities due to under‐reporting and inadequate capture of the prevalence of this violence. This article explores approaches to collecting data regarding viol…
From being ‘at risk’ to being ‘a risk’
When young women who have grown up in contact with child protection become mothers, they shift from being regarded as a child ‘at risk’ by the child protection system, to posing ‘a risk’ to their baby. In contrast to their peers, young care leavers transition to adulthood with very few resources and little support; they typically continue to experience the economic and related adversities of their childhoods. This article draws on biographical na…
Neoliberalism's friends, foes and fellow travellers
How and why neoliberal policies spread across political jurisdictions is a fundamental question for economic geographers and critical policy scholars. Many accounts inspired by the policy mobility approach point to neoliberalism as having a conditioning effect on the ease and speed with which policies transverse the globe. Yet the role that social movements and transnational advocacy networks play in shaping and at times facilitating neoliberal p…
Policy claims and problem frames
This paper explores the signification of evidence-based policy as a new policy-making paradigm in Australia through a cross-case comparison of the role of evidence in two key areas: child protection and illicit drug policy. Although evidence makes certain courses of action appear valid and credible, quality evidence is not necessarily the critical factor in driving or explaining policy outcomes. Policy solutions are perceived more favourably and …
Policy claims and problem frames
This paper explores the signification of evidence-based policy as a new policy-making paradigm in Australia through a cross-case comparison of the role of evidence in two key areas: child protection and illicit drug policy. Although evidence makes certain courses of action appear valid and credible, quality evidence is not necessarily the critical factor in driving or explaining policy outcomes. Policy solutions are perceived more favourably and …
Mind the gap
A comprehensive national response to violence against women with disabilities is long overdue in Australia. Work to date suggests that the issue is endemic yet largely invisible. Responses at the national level are hampered by the lack of information regarding violence against women with disabilities due to under‐reporting and inadequate capture of the prevalence of this violence. This article explores approaches to collecting data regarding viol…
Emplacing Indigeneity and rurality in neoliberal disability welfare reform
This article maps the impact of neoliberal restructuring of disability services and income support measures on Aboriginal people with disabilities living in rural areas of the West Kimberley in Australia. The international literature has extensively documented disability and Indigenous neoliberal welfare retraction measures, though as discrete areas of research. We aim to emplace the intersectional experience of such reforms by exposing their uni…
From being ‘at risk’ to being ‘a risk’
When young women who have grown up in contact with child protection become mothers, they shift from being regarded as a child ‘at risk’ by the child protection system, to posing ‘a risk’ to their baby. In contrast to their peers, young care leavers transition to adulthood with very few resources and little support; they typically continue to experience the economic and related adversities of their childhoods. This article draws on biographical na…
Routines of isolation? A qualitative study of informal caregiving in the context of glioma in Australia
Informal caregiving for a person living with glioma can be both rewarding and multidimensionally challenging, given the potential for debilitating symptoms, cognitive impairment or personality changes, as early as diagnosis. There is growing evidence that, due to the demands of care, experiences and feelings of loneliness and isolation among informal caregivers are widespread, and opportunities for quality or meaningful social connectedness are l…
Neoliberalism's friends, foes and fellow travellers
How and why neoliberal policies spread across political jurisdictions is a fundamental question for economic geographers and critical policy scholars. Many accounts inspired by the policy mobility approach point to neoliberalism as having a conditioning effect on the ease and speed with which policies transverse the globe. Yet the role that social movements and transnational advocacy networks play in shaping and at times facilitating neoliberal p…
Safeguarding in Australia’s new disability markets
Despite significant efforts to end it, violence, abuse and neglect continue to contribute to preventable harms and deaths among people using disability services. To explore why these harms persist and what is needed to prevent them, we examine the safety-related attitudes and practices among frontline staff delivering services in the context of an individualized funding scheme, Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). Analysis of …
Unveiling algorithmic power
This article examines the impact of algorithmic systems on disabled people’s interactions with social services, focusing on a case study of algorithmic decision-making in Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). Through interviews and document analysis, we explore future visions and concerns related to increased automation in NDIS planning and eligibility determinations. We show that while individuals may not fully comprehend the …
Inclusion interrupted
Participatory approaches including co-design are seen as a means to address some of the challenges digital government poses for people with disability, such as unequal access and poor technological design. Yet co-design principles are rarely practiced in a meaningful way for people with disability, resulting in digital government systems that are obstructive and inaccessible to many. This paper explores the opportunities and challenges of disabil…
Marketisation and Regulatory Labour in Frontline Disability Work
In many liberal welfare states, market-based reforms aimed at enhancing competition and choice in disability services have necessitated extensive regulatory reforms to ensure quality service provision. This article explores how the changing regulatory environment surrounding an individualised funding scheme is transforming frontline disability work. Drawing on data from a survey of 2341 Australian disability support workers, the article contribut…
Digital citizenship and disability in the covid era
The covid-19 crisis has accelerated automation and digitalization in many aspects of social life. Social distancing and lockdowns, combined with the imperative to preserve economic activity, have seen much work and education move online, while the digitalization of government services has intensified. These developments slowed the spread of covid-19 but their broader effects, both positive and negative, have been unevenly distributed. One group f…
Disablism, racism and the spectre of eugenics in digital welfare
This article explores the historical ties between the digital welfare state and eugenics, highlighting how the use of data infrastructures for classification and governance in the digital era has roots in eugenic data practices and ideas. Through an analysis of three domains of automated decision-making – child welfare, immigration and disability benefits – the article demonstrates how these automated systems perpetuate hierarchical divisions ori…
Decoding the algorithmic operations of Australia's National Disability Insurance Scheme
In recent years, Australia has embarked on a digital transformation of its social services, with the primary goal of creating user‐centric services that are more attentive to the needs of citizens. This article examines operational and technological changes within Australia's National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) as a result of this comprehensive government digital transformation strategy. It discusses the effectiveness of these changes in …
Introduction to the digital welfare state
This article introduces a special issue of the Journal of Sociology focused on critical analysis of the digital welfare state. The digitalisation of welfare policy, institutions and service delivery has led to increased scrutiny, social sorting and surveillance of welfare recipients and other marginalised groups. This collection of papers contributes to current debates about digital welfare using sociological approaches which foreground the role …
“This robot is dictating her next steps in life”
As automated technologies, particularly artificial intelligence (AI) and automated decision-making (ADM), become integral to social life, there is growing concern about their ethical implications. While issues of accountability, transparency, and fairness dominate discussions on “ethical” AI, little attention has been given to how socially disadvantaged groups most impacted by ADM systems form ethical judgments about them. Drawing on insights fro…
What socio-cultural, emotional and relational factors shape older people's experiences of death and dying in residential aged care? A scoping review
Research internationally has revealed a range of medical and health-related issues that shape care at the end of life for people living in residential aged care facilities (RACFs), their families and the staff who care for them. Yet, less is known about the lived experiences of residents, and the broader socio-cultural, emotional and relational factors that shape experiences of dying within such settings. In this article, we present findings from…
Beyond Robodebt
Australia's Robodebt scheme, an automated debt recovery program introduced in 2016, was exposed by the Robodebt Royal Commission (RC) as a serious failure of public administration and source of significant harm for thousands of Australians. Through a critical discourse analysis (CDA) of Australian news media, this study explores whether the RC's revelations of governance failures and institutionalised stigma have sparked changes in media portraya…
Crip Spaces For and With Disabled Filipinos
In disaster settings, disabled people are often framed as passive recipients of aid, to be integrated into pre‐existing response mechanisms. This paper challenges that framing by centring disabled bodyminds and the crip‐for‐crip strategies that sustain survival amidst chronic disaster. It foregrounds the relational practices of resistance, care and world‐making that disabled communities enact in the face of climate crisis. Workshops and interview…
The Digital Welfare State
The concept of the digital welfare state (DWS) has gained popularity in research on welfare system digitalization, but its meaning is under-theorized and largely unproblematized. Invoked without clear criteria, the concept leaves open fundamental questions about what qualifies as a DWS and why. In this article, we propose three key pillars as foundational criteria for analyses of the DWS: (1) the presence of a welfare state, (2) processes of digi…
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