School of Social and Political Science

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Join us at this social policy subject area seminar to hear from Prof Julie MacLeavy who will talk about her book book ‘Enduring Austerity: The Uneven Geographies of the Post-Welfare State’ on Monday 7th July, room 3.35 Edinburgh Futures Institute, UoE.

Professor MacLeavy is a Professor of Economic Geography who studies state intervention and its geography, specifically interested in the 'cultural turn' in the social sciences to investigate issues of 'traditional' political-economic concern, including labour market regulation, welfare provision and urban renewal. Her early work concentrated on how narratives of social exclusion had been consistently employed to legitimate temporary labour market attachments as a recurrent objective in welfare policies and participation in urban regeneration schemes in the UK. More recently, she has been concerned with the manner in which familiar feminist questions about recognition, rights and the redistribution of care are being resituated in light of contemporary economic, political and social transformations.

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