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International Association on Social Quality

17 April, 2019
This newsletter brings you a short update on international projects and collaborations where the International Association on Social Quality (IASQ) is actively involved. We also feature a free download from the International Journal of Social Quality.
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Beijing, Amsterdam, New York

IASQ (Amsterdam) and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS, Beijing) have signed a contract with Berghahn Journals of New York. IASQ and CASS will jointly support the publication of the International Journal of Social Quality for the coming years.

In September 2018 CASS hosted, with editors of the International Journal of Social Quality and Chinese and international scholars, a social quality expert meeting in Beijing. The meeting was not only dedicated to the work of the International Journal of Social Quality, but also to start an international discussion about further development of the Social Quality Approach. IASQ has stressed the urgency to include overall sustainability in the Social Quality Approach.
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After the Brexit Vote

In the wake of the Brexit vote of 2016, two British scholars connected with IASQ have issued a declaration, titled Post Brexit Declaration on Social Quality In Europe. In this declaration the authors voiced their worries about the direction Europe has taken, and identified the connection with the support the “leave” vote got. 

Two years after the Brexit vote, British scholars have published a study on the background of the “leave” vote in Stoke-on-Trent, where a large majority voted for leaving the European Union. The article was published in the International Journal of Social Quality. 
Both the declaration and the journal article are highly relevant today.
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The Decent Society

Aberdeen University project and book

The book The Decent Society: Planning for Social Quality by Pamela Abbott, Claire Wallace and Roger Sapsford may be appreciated as an outcome of research projects of the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. The pillars are research projects on the former Soviet Union funded by the European Union, the Rwanda research projects supported by the Senate of the Republic of Rwanda and the participation in the work of the International Association on Social Quality resulting in the Aberdeen expert meeting in 2015. 

A ‘decent society’ is one that assures a parity of participation – of distribution, recognition and political representation. Above all, it is a just society, whose rules are set in such a way that everyone benefits equally. The authors have chosen to use the social quality approach. One of the reasons for this choice is that SQA sees ‘the social’ as central to the quality of societies and challenges the subordination of welfare policies to the economy and economic policies. 
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Ukraine Research Project

Ukraine Research Project

IASQ is involved in the development of an International Joint-research Project Ukraine (the INRU project). This would apply the Social Quality Approach (SQA) to researching the many problems Ukraine is facing. This is not an easy endeavor, but the framework is being established for research on how to address problems like
  • The increase of inequalities and questions of employment,
  • Political expressions of populism, undermining democratic based values and practices,
  • Increasing forms of migration and how to cope humanely with these flows on national and supra-regional level,
  • The challenge of sustainability and herewith related climate change questions.
The problematique of applying the social quality approach in Ukraine and other Eastern European countries is discussed in IASQ Working Paper 17.
 
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Developing the Social Quality Approach

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An extended editorial in the International Journal of Social Quality draws attention to the state of social quality work and indicates essential challenges at this stage and in the near future. The editorial is titled The Evolution of 20 Years of Social Quality Thinking.

As the editorial states: “The social quality approach now extends beyond analyses of processes in a range of policy areas seen as aspects of societal complexities (first field) and of herewith related processes in urban contexts (second field). It has added analyses oriented on the development or destruction of sustainable daily circumstances (third field), so a more global point of view has been introduced in theorizing social quality and SQA.”
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