Epilogue: the Nordic welfare state beyond ideology and utopia

Hänninen, Sakari; Lehtelä, Kirsi-Marja; Saikkonen, Paula

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“…The simultaneous presence of Adivasi and coastal communities within the discourse on marginalisation yet unacknowledging the question of caste and Dalit inequities warrants the need to theorise the possible reasons for Dalit invisibilisation. While the discourse on health-related vulnerability and the related dimension of equity examined does suggest the overarching influence of individualistic and person-centric views of health, shaped by a market-driven order of discourse, I believe there is more that is clearly in action when it comes to the discourse on caste and related equity dimensions [ 40 ]. Although obvious, the dismissal of caste also, therefore, moves beyond the conventional influence of neoliberal tendencies that are urgent to individualise disease and health outcomes without ever engaging with the larger societal factors determining health disparities across social groups.…”

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Understanding Dalit equity: a critical analysis of primary health care policy discourse of Kerala in the context of ‘Aardram’ mission

Sreekumar

2023

Int J Equity Health

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Background The Government of Kerala in 2017 launched the Aardram Mission with the aim to revamp public health delivery in the State. A key strategy under the mission was its focus on comprehensive primary health care to achieve equitable health care delivery through the Family Health Centre (FHC) initiative. Given this, the current study aims to examine the primary health care policy discourse for their perspectives on caste-driven inequities. Methods The study undertook a Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) of the primary health care policy discourse in Kerala. This included CDA of spoken words by senior health policy actors and policy texts on Aardram Mission and FHC. Results Though equity was a major aspirational goal of the Mission, related policy discourse around equity failed to acknowledge caste as a potential axis of health marginalisation in the State. The dismissal of caste manifested in three major ways within the policy discourse. One, the ‘invisibilisation’ of caste-driven inequities through strategies of (un)conscious exclusion of Dalit issues and ‘obliteration’ of caste differences through the construction of abstract and homogenous groups that invisibilise Dalits. Secondly, locating caste as a barrier to primary health care initiatives and health equity in the state, and finally through the maintenance of an ‘apoliticised’ social determinants discourse that fails to recognize the role of caste in shaping health disparities, specifically among Dalits in Kerala. Conclusion Given Kerala’s renewed commitment to strengthening its public health provisioning, the acknowledgment of caste-driven inequities is invariable in its path toward health equity and social justice.

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Understanding Dalit equity: a critical analysis of primary health care policy discourse of Kerala in the context of ‘Aardram’ mission

Sreekumar

2023

Int J Equity Health

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Humanism Under Siege: The Janus Face of the Modern Revolution of Dignity

Witoszek

2021

Przegląd Humanistyczny

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The article interprets the crisis of liberal democracy in the 21st century as the result of an ongoing, dual revolution of dignity. One such revolution is the work of “humanist outliers”: small groups and individuals dedicated to compassionate social emancipation. Thus anti-authoritarian revolutions like that of Solidarity in Poland (1980–81) succeed in large part thanks to cultural and political innovations springing from the work of such small groups. However, the humanist revolution of dignity – featuring altruism and cooperation – has its “tribal doppelgänger”: a twin revolution that strives to reclaim national dignity and pride at the price of submission to authoritarian rule.

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Epilogue: the Nordic welfare state beyond ideology and utopia

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Understanding Dalit equity: a critical analysis of primary health care policy discourse of Kerala in the context of ‘Aardram’ mission

Understanding Dalit equity: a critical analysis of primary health care policy discourse of Kerala in the context of ‘Aardram’ mission

Humanism Under Siege: The Janus Face of the Modern Revolution of Dignity

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