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Wednesday 12 April 2023 11.00 - 13.00
V-2 SOC03 Transnational Actors and Social Protection in the 20th Century
Västra Hamngatan 25 AK2 134
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Marco H.D. van Leeuwen
Organizers: Michele Mioni, Marco H.D. van Leeuwen Discussants: -
Deona Cali : The League of Nations and Decolonization in Albania
The aim of this abstract is to analyse the role of the League of Nations on twentieth-century decolonization in Albania expanding beyond the heyday of post-war decolonization covering a timeline from 1920-1939. It introduces a wide range of actors who shaped processes of decolonization and the development from representatives of ... (Show more)
The aim of this abstract is to analyse the role of the League of Nations on twentieth-century decolonization in Albania expanding beyond the heyday of post-war decolonization covering a timeline from 1920-1939. It introduces a wide range of actors who shaped processes of decolonization and the development from representatives of new states and imperial powers, bureaucrats and experts of the League of Nations in Albania. The topic of the League of Nations involvement in decolonization is multifaced. As an organization, the League of Nations faced challenges in engaging nations in international cooperation. It was together with other international organisations a hub for forging anti-colonial and inter-imperial alliances contributing to the simplistic view and arguments that presents international organisations as instruments of neo-colonialism. It served as a public forum for meaning of decolonization more generally and the decolonization of specific places in particular as Albania. The research objective of this paper is to analyse the role of the League of Nations, its employees, and the Albanian immigration societies as historical actors in their own right who sought to respond and shape the process of decolonization in Albania and sometimes in particular cases not following the lead of government representatives. (Show less)

Célia Keren : Productive Entanglements: the Co-constitution of Public and Private Actors in the Field of Welfare, Humanitarian Aid and Global Health
This paper will present the recently published edited book Public and private welfare in modern Europe: productive entanglements, Abingdon, Oxon?; New York, NY, Routledge, coll. ‘Routledge open history’, 2022. Since the 1980s, neoliberals have openly contested the idea that the state should protect the socio-economic well-being of its citizens, making ... (Show more)
This paper will present the recently published edited book Public and private welfare in modern Europe: productive entanglements, Abingdon, Oxon?; New York, NY, Routledge, coll. ‘Routledge open history’, 2022. Since the 1980s, neoliberals have openly contested the idea that the state should protect the socio-economic well-being of its citizens, making ‘privatization’ their mantra. Yet, as historians and social scientists have shown, welfare has always been a ‘mixed economy’, wherein private and public actors dynamically interacted, collaborating or competing with each other in the provision of welfare services. This book develops three innovative approaches. Firstly, it illuminates the productive nature of public/private entanglements. Far from amounting to a zero-sum game, the interactions between the two sectors have changed over time what welfare encompasses, its contents and targets, often engendering the creation of new fields of intervention. Secondly, this book departs from a well-established tradition of comparison between Western nation-states by using and mixing various scales of analysis (local, national, international and global) and by covering case studies from Spain to Poland and France to Greece in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Thirdly, this book goes beyond state centrism in welfare studies by bringing back a host of public and private actors, from municipalities to international organizations, from older charities to modern NGOs. (Show less)

Michele Mioni : Connecting Global and Regional Scales of Action: Geographic, Diachronic, Conceptual Issues of “Post-Colonial Transitions”, “Social Reform”, and “International Actors”
This paper sets the interpretive framework to discuss the panel interventions within a global intellectual history context. This contribution aims to connect the individual topics discussed at the ESSHC panel in Gothenburg with the research areas investigated by the COST-Action CA18119 “Who Cares in Europe?”. It constitutes indeed a first ... (Show more)
This paper sets the interpretive framework to discuss the panel interventions within a global intellectual history context. This contribution aims to connect the individual topics discussed at the ESSHC panel in Gothenburg with the research areas investigated by the COST-Action CA18119 “Who Cares in Europe?”. It constitutes indeed a first step in a wider collective reflection and dissemination on topics, methodologies, interpretations, actors that will be scrutinised by the COST-subproject Decolonising Empires, 1930s–1970s: (Trans)national Actors and Social Reform in (Post-)Colonial Countries, which is carried out by the Action CA 18119 “Who Cares in Europe?”.
First, this contribution introduces the wider collective subproject whereof the panel is part, that analyses how regional, national, and transnational actors helped or obstructed social reform during the transition from colonially governed to independent countries. Secondly, it reviews the interdisciplinary state-of-art, by locating this topic within the existing literature, and by discussing further research avenues. The paper then uses the Balkan region as a spotlight for the study of the entanglements between local and global fields of action, identifying a set of geopolitical, diachronic, and conceptual issues inherent to the use of analytical categories such as “(post-)colonialism”, “social reform”, “international actors”. By so doing, the paper asks questions such as: the spatial and temporal scope of the concept of “post-colonial transition”; the semantic cleavages and political uses of the notion of “social reform”; the discussion of the role of international actors and transnational social movements in the transfer of ideas, expertise, and policies across a variety of regional variations. (Show less)



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