Sustaining Social Protection and Provision: the front line in the battle for the Good Society

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Autor(a) principal: Evans,Peter
Data de Publicação: 2018
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Ciência & Saúde Coletiva (Online)
Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-81232018000702081
Resumo: Abstract In an era when social policy priorities are subordinated to regressive capitalist agendas, sustaining collective commitments to social protection and social provision defines the front line of the battle for the good society. The conflict manifests itself across a range of arenas, but health is analytically archetypal. This introductory article for the special issue assumes the dynamics of the contradiction between the inherently collective character of health provision and capitalist insistence on using individual consumption valued in market prices to measure societal success. Left unchecked, the elite bloc whose agenda is defined by pursuit of the interests of capital will destroy existing social provision and protection, making societies, especially in the Global South, ugly places to live for ordinary citizens. The articles in this volume leave us with a challenge: how can we construct the oppositional agency necessary to expand and strengthen social provision and protection in an era of regressive capitalist domination?
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title Sustaining Social Protection and Provision: the front line in the battle for the Good Society
spellingShingle Sustaining Social Protection and Provision: the front line in the battle for the Good Society
Evans,Peter
Social policy
Social protection
Health
Capitalism
Agency
title_short Sustaining Social Protection and Provision: the front line in the battle for the Good Society
title_full Sustaining Social Protection and Provision: the front line in the battle for the Good Society
title_fullStr Sustaining Social Protection and Provision: the front line in the battle for the Good Society
title_full_unstemmed Sustaining Social Protection and Provision: the front line in the battle for the Good Society
title_sort Sustaining Social Protection and Provision: the front line in the battle for the Good Society
author Evans,Peter
author_facet Evans,Peter
author_role author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Evans,Peter
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Social policy
Social protection
Health
Capitalism
Agency
topic Social policy
Social protection
Health
Capitalism
Agency
description Abstract In an era when social policy priorities are subordinated to regressive capitalist agendas, sustaining collective commitments to social protection and social provision defines the front line of the battle for the good society. The conflict manifests itself across a range of arenas, but health is analytically archetypal. This introductory article for the special issue assumes the dynamics of the contradiction between the inherently collective character of health provision and capitalist insistence on using individual consumption valued in market prices to measure societal success. Left unchecked, the elite bloc whose agenda is defined by pursuit of the interests of capital will destroy existing social provision and protection, making societies, especially in the Global South, ugly places to live for ordinary citizens. The articles in this volume leave us with a challenge: how can we construct the oppositional agency necessary to expand and strengthen social provision and protection in an era of regressive capitalist domination?
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