Annika Pissin
Universitetslektor
Digital welfare for children in China : Human needs and sustainability
Författare
Summary, in English
This article examines the potential of digital welfare policies and practices to enhance the wellbeing of children in China, and the congruencies and contradictions of such policies with sustainable welfare. Can child welfare be supported digitally in ways that are not environmentally destructive? The rapidly diffusing concepts of digital welfare and sustainable welfare are presented, emphasising aspects of precarity, connectivity, surveillance, polarisation and environmental degradation. The context of child welfare and digital welfare policies in China is outlined and considered from the perspective of sustainable welfare. Given the underlying contradictions between digital welfare and sustainable welfare, and the inconsistencies between practices associated with these policy fields, the prospects of applying digital welfare policies to achieve sustainable wellbeing of children, in China and elsewhere, are deemed problematic.
Avdelning/ar
- Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudier
Publiceringsår
2020-11-01
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
505-525
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Critical Social Policy
Volym
40
Issue
4
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
SAGE Publications
Ämne
- Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
- Public Administration Studies
Nyckelord
- polarisation
- precarity
- surveillance
- sustainable welfare
- wellbeing
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 0261-0183