Universal basic income, services, or time politics? A critical realist analysis of (potentially) transformative responses to the care crisis

IF 3.2 0 PHILOSOPHY Journal of Critical Realism Pub Date : 2023-07-13 DOI:10.1080/14767430.2023.2229179
Richard Bärnthaler, Corinna Dengler
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ABSTRACT Using an (eco-)feminist Marxist-Polanyian theoretical lens, this article explores the diverse relations between contemporary care-crisis symptoms in Western Europe and its generative structures. It investigates the potential of three possible responses to the crisis to transform rather than reproduce these structures: (un)conditional cash transfers, universal basic services, and time politics. Drawing upon critical realism and the evolutionary mechanisms of variation, selection, and retention, we seek to make sense of the dynamic between competing crisis construals and their effects on actuality. To answer our research question What are the transformative potentials of different responses to the contemporary care crisis in Western Europe?, we move from meta-theoretical abstractions to a theoretically grounded, concrete application of critical realism in the social sciences. We conclude that a symbiosis of time politics and universal basic services together with a universal, but not unconditional, guaranteed (minimum) income offers substantial transformative potentials.
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全民基本收入、服务还是时间政治?护理危机(潜在)变革性应对措施的批判性现实主义分析
摘要:本文以(生态)女性主义马克思主义-波兰主义的理论视角,探讨了西欧当代护理危机症状与其生成结构之间的多种关系。它调查了三种可能的危机应对措施的潜力,以改变而不是复制这些结构:(无条件)现金转移支付、普遍基本服务和时间政治。利用批判现实主义和变异、选择和保留的进化机制,我们试图理解相互竞争的危机解释及其对现实的影响之间的动态关系。为了回答我们的研究问题,对西欧当代护理危机的不同反应的变革潜力是什么?,我们从元理论的抽象转向批判现实主义在社会科学中的理论基础和具体应用。我们的结论是,时间政治和普遍基本服务的共生关系以及普遍但不是无条件的保证(最低)收入提供了巨大的变革潜力。
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