Briitta van Staalduinen
the politics of shifting status hierarchies in the knowledge economy , current postdoc @ university of konstanz , incoming asst prof of politics @ oberlin
- love a theoretical framework but try to also give my students concrete examples of what a welfare state can 'feel' like below the contents of the "motherhood package" (äitiyspakkaus) given to mothers (incl. those adopting) in Finland www.kela.fi/documents/d/...
- 1st article from my dissertation is out in Perspectives today!! two takeaways: a) knowledge economy 'winners' may not be subject to status loss but they sure care about status preservation & b) this is consequential for their attitudes re: immigration & diversity. Thnx 2 all along this journey!!
- #OpenAccess from @poppublicsphere.bsky.social - The Politics of Status Preservation: Immigration and the Knowledge Economy Class - cup.org/3VYHxGx - @briittavs.bsky.social #FirstView
- a piece that has aged like fine wine. 30 years from post-socialism to post-neoliberalism and the dilemma remains, if not in an even knottier form Nancy Fraser's "From redistribution to recognition? Dilemmas of justice in a 'post-socialist' age" from 1995 newleftreview.org/issues/i212/...
- in light of exchange re: the role of gender and mobilization in the US election, wanted to share our recent CPS article @dpzollinger.bsky.social in which we use European survey data to test expectations about progressive voters based on gender and upward mobility. our findings suggest that,
