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This session gives a comprehensive overview of a year long process in which academics and social movements in Europe and Asia have built a new narrative on social protection, social justice and social commons, bringing together an innovative approach to universal health care, labour law and public services.
Redefining the Agenda for Social Justice: Voices from Europe and Asia
By Francine Mestrum & Meena Menon
With this new book Francine Mestrum adds to the global debate on alternatives to neoliberal globalization, saying: “We have to make ‘progress’ in such a way that we can ensure the sustainability of life, of humankind and of nature. There is no alternative but to seek change.”
This book gives a comprehensive overview of a year long process in which academics and social movements in Europa and Asia have built a new narrative on social protection, social justice and social commons. It brings together the different bits and pieces of an innovative approach to something that is so particularly important and urgent in these times of COVID-19: universal health care, labour law and public services. Taken together with new definitions, this leads to a transformative mechanism in which social protection goes beyond redistribution and the correction of a failed economic system. Termed in words of social commons it makes clear that its objective is the protection of people and therefore should be in the hands of people. Social protection, then, becomes a tool for social change and contributes to the sustainability of people, societies and nature.
Organisers:AEPF Cluster on Social Justice
