Over the past decade, the UK has experienced major policy and policy making change. This text examines this shifting political and policy landscape while also highlighting the features …
Policy 'incoherence'describes a lack of joined-up government that contributes to a confusing mix of policy instruments. It is an inevitable feature of multilevel policy-making, in which …
A Christoffersen - Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
This article empirically charts how a discursive construction of the separation of race and racial justice organizing, and “intersectionality” serves to uphold white supremacy and efface …
Although gender mainstreaming (GM) has been the international norm for working toward gender equality in policies and practices since the F ourth W orld C onference on W omen in …
A Christoffersen, L McCABE - Critical Social Policy, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
This article synthesises the findings from two studies on the operationalisation of intersectionality in Scotland: one in equality policy and NGOs, and the other in domestic …
It is increasingly recognized that, to achieve social justice, policies and organizations need to apply an intersectional approach, rather than addressing inequalities separately …
Gender impact assessment has been both celebrated as a beacon of hope for the cause of gender equality and criticised as being ineffectual. More than 20 years of gender …
M Verloo, P Meier, S Lauwers, S Martens - Social Politics, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Crenshaw's powerful take against “thinking about subordination as disadvantage occurring along a single categorical axis”(, University of Chicago Legal Forum) has been taken up by …
O Hankivsky, D De Merich, A Christoffersen - British Politics, 2019 - Springer
In an increasing number of jurisdictions, gender mainstreaming approaches have been supplemented with attention to other equality areas, including race and disability. The UK is …