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Handbook of Social Infrastructure
Conceptual and Empirical Research Perspectives
9781800883123 Edward Elgar Publishing
This timely Handbook showcases cutting-edge empirical and theoretical social science research to shed light on the role, aims and functioning of social infrastructure (SI). Leading scholars present unique insights on topics such as healthcare, childcare, education, employment and SI for marginalized groups alongside cultural and recreational infrastructures.
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This timely Handbook showcases cutting-edge empirical and theoretical social science research to shed light on the role, aims and functioning of social infrastructure (SI). Leading scholars present unique insights on topics such as healthcare, childcare, education, employment and SI for marginalized groups alongside cultural and recreational infrastructures.
Ongoing global and regional crises have underscored the significance of SI services and facilities in enhancing individual well-being, social cohesion and equality. With this central tenet in mind, contributing authors challenge traditional views on public welfare systems throughout the Handbook to take into account the climate, care and housing crises. They provide an in-depth examination of the concept of SI and how it relates to different strands of research such as welfare state analysis and urbanism, connecting the field with other emerging strands of conceptualizing socio-economic processes such as the foundational economy approach.
Paving the way for further research, the Handbook of Social Infrastructure is a vital resource for students and scholars of sociology, regional and urban economics, cities, urban planning and geography, and public sector economics and finance. Policy-makers will find it equally beneficial to inform their understanding of spatial planning and economic and social policies.
Ongoing global and regional crises have underscored the significance of SI services and facilities in enhancing individual well-being, social cohesion and equality. With this central tenet in mind, contributing authors challenge traditional views on public welfare systems throughout the Handbook to take into account the climate, care and housing crises. They provide an in-depth examination of the concept of SI and how it relates to different strands of research such as welfare state analysis and urbanism, connecting the field with other emerging strands of conceptualizing socio-economic processes such as the foundational economy approach.
Paving the way for further research, the Handbook of Social Infrastructure is a vital resource for students and scholars of sociology, regional and urban economics, cities, urban planning and geography, and public sector economics and finance. Policy-makers will find it equally beneficial to inform their understanding of spatial planning and economic and social policies.
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‘Paving the way for further research, the Handbook of Social Infrastructure is a vital resource for students and scholars of sociology, regional and urban economics, cities, urban planning and geography, and public sector economics and finance. Policy-makers will find it equally beneficial to inform their understanding of spatial planning and economic and social policies.’
– Heterodox Economics Newsletter, Issue 331, August 2024
‘Social infrastructure is increasingly attracting the attention of academic and policy communities yet, as this volume effectively outlines, there is no consensus on its definition and scope. This new Handbook provides a timely and unique introduction to social infrastructure, how it matters and the important debates about its development.’
– Julie Froud, University of Manchester, UK
‘The contribution of social infrastructure to human development has garnered rising academic and policy interest. This valuable set of chapters advances our knowledge of social infrastructure across a variety of dimensions, sectors and local and national contexts, and provides a foundation for anybody seeking a deeper understanding of this field.’
– John Tomaney, University College London, UK
– Heterodox Economics Newsletter, Issue 331, August 2024
‘Social infrastructure is increasingly attracting the attention of academic and policy communities yet, as this volume effectively outlines, there is no consensus on its definition and scope. This new Handbook provides a timely and unique introduction to social infrastructure, how it matters and the important debates about its development.’
– Julie Froud, University of Manchester, UK
‘The contribution of social infrastructure to human development has garnered rising academic and policy interest. This valuable set of chapters advances our knowledge of social infrastructure across a variety of dimensions, sectors and local and national contexts, and provides a foundation for anybody seeking a deeper understanding of this field.’
– John Tomaney, University College London, UK
Contents
Contents:
Introduction to the Handbook of Social Infrastructure 1
Anna-Theresa Renner, Leonhard Plank, Michael Getzner
PART I DOMAINS AND INSTITUTIONS OF SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE
HEALTH AND CARE
1 Hospitals as social infrastructure - accessible for all? 20
Anna-Theresa Renner
2 Strengthening social infrastructure in long-term care for older people –
Coordinated action and local empowerment in Europe 39
Cassandra Simmons, Stefania Ilinca, Adelina Comas-Herrera, Claire
Champeix, Lian Southard and Nick Zonnenveld.
3 Demographic change, healthcare, and long-term care 56
Sonja Spitzer and Claudia Reiter
EDUCATION AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
4 The organization of formal childcare: inequalities in use and effects of
childcare services 86
Astrid Pennerstorfer and Michaela Neumayr
5 Locating vocational education and training within the social
infrastructure of communities past and present 106
Lorna Unwin
6 Unemployment and labor market policies 121
Lukas Lehner and Dennis Tamesberger
7 Is social infrastructure punching below its weight in the debate on
social mobility? 143
Mathieu P.A. Steijn
MARGINALIZED AND VULNERABLE GROUPS
8 Social infrastructure for migrants and integration 159
Judith Kohlenberger
9 Social infrastructure in the NowHereland of undocumented migration:
the case of Austria and Israel 176
Ursula Trummer, Sonja Novak-Zezula and Lika Nusbaum
10 Homelessness and social infrastructure 199
Simon Güntner, Nancy Meyer-Adams, Marc Diebäcker
CULTURE AND RECREATION
10 Heritage and social infrastructure 210
Ioanna Katapidi and Anne Laura Kraak
12 Cultural infrastructure as part of social infrastructure: perspectives of
cultural policy and economics 231
Michael Getzner
13 Cultural institutions in transitional China: public service and corporate
development 248
Yan Li
14 Public recreation areas as social infrastructure: empirical results from Vienna 272
Michael Getzner
PART II CHALLENGES AND FUTURE PATHWAYS FOR SOCIAL
INFRASTRUCTURE
SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL CHALLENGES FOR SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURES
15 Urban heat waves and adaptive capacity: how can social infrastructure
help reduce vulnerability? 288
Leora Courtney-Wolfman
16 The care crisis, social infrastructure and the COVID-19 crisis 310
Hanne Marlene Dahl and Molly Occhino
NEW PERSPECTIVES FOR SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE RESEARCH
17 Social infrastructures from a global perspective: beyond the formal and
informal divide 331
Judith M. Lehner
18 Material and “providential” social infrastructures – a foundational
economy perspective 348
Filippo Barbera
19 The role of urban and regional planning in the provision of social infrastructure 361
Jan Whittington, Dian Prasetyawati and Chin-Wei Chen
20 Housing as social infrastructure 391
Andrej Holm
Introduction to the Handbook of Social Infrastructure 1
Anna-Theresa Renner, Leonhard Plank, Michael Getzner
PART I DOMAINS AND INSTITUTIONS OF SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE
HEALTH AND CARE
1 Hospitals as social infrastructure - accessible for all? 20
Anna-Theresa Renner
2 Strengthening social infrastructure in long-term care for older people –
Coordinated action and local empowerment in Europe 39
Cassandra Simmons, Stefania Ilinca, Adelina Comas-Herrera, Claire
Champeix, Lian Southard and Nick Zonnenveld.
3 Demographic change, healthcare, and long-term care 56
Sonja Spitzer and Claudia Reiter
EDUCATION AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
4 The organization of formal childcare: inequalities in use and effects of
childcare services 86
Astrid Pennerstorfer and Michaela Neumayr
5 Locating vocational education and training within the social
infrastructure of communities past and present 106
Lorna Unwin
6 Unemployment and labor market policies 121
Lukas Lehner and Dennis Tamesberger
7 Is social infrastructure punching below its weight in the debate on
social mobility? 143
Mathieu P.A. Steijn
MARGINALIZED AND VULNERABLE GROUPS
8 Social infrastructure for migrants and integration 159
Judith Kohlenberger
9 Social infrastructure in the NowHereland of undocumented migration:
the case of Austria and Israel 176
Ursula Trummer, Sonja Novak-Zezula and Lika Nusbaum
10 Homelessness and social infrastructure 199
Simon Güntner, Nancy Meyer-Adams, Marc Diebäcker
CULTURE AND RECREATION
10 Heritage and social infrastructure 210
Ioanna Katapidi and Anne Laura Kraak
12 Cultural infrastructure as part of social infrastructure: perspectives of
cultural policy and economics 231
Michael Getzner
13 Cultural institutions in transitional China: public service and corporate
development 248
Yan Li
14 Public recreation areas as social infrastructure: empirical results from Vienna 272
Michael Getzner
PART II CHALLENGES AND FUTURE PATHWAYS FOR SOCIAL
INFRASTRUCTURE
SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL CHALLENGES FOR SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURES
15 Urban heat waves and adaptive capacity: how can social infrastructure
help reduce vulnerability? 288
Leora Courtney-Wolfman
16 The care crisis, social infrastructure and the COVID-19 crisis 310
Hanne Marlene Dahl and Molly Occhino
NEW PERSPECTIVES FOR SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE RESEARCH
17 Social infrastructures from a global perspective: beyond the formal and
informal divide 331
Judith M. Lehner
18 Material and “providential” social infrastructures – a foundational
economy perspective 348
Filippo Barbera
19 The role of urban and regional planning in the provision of social infrastructure 361
Jan Whittington, Dian Prasetyawati and Chin-Wei Chen
20 Housing as social infrastructure 391
Andrej Holm
