The state, civil society and the shadow state: Analysing three vectors of relationality

The state and voluntary sector in austere times: 10 years of National Citizen Service

“…In doing so, we demonstrate how NCS has reconfigured the state-voluntary sector relationship in the context of youth services. This discussion contributes to debates on geographies of youth work in times of austerity (Youdell and McGimpsey, 2015;Horton, 2016;Davies, 2019) and on the wider relationship between the state and voluntary sector (Wolch 1990;Trudeau, 2008;DeVerteuil et al 2019;Jones and Royles, 2020).…”

“…However, for those outdoor centres who usually host other voluntary youth organisations, NCS is a big player and has the capital to buy bed space far earlier in the calendar year, creating knock-on effects and tensions in the wider sector, as a provider reveals: 'I mean he's [NCS procurement manager] been booking kind of 15,000 bed spaces a year, and so has a pretty good kind of buying power and is able to kind of really develop the market through that process.' Furthermore, since the advent of NCS, the wider voluntary youth sector has been under more pressure to demonstrate its impact and evidence the quality and legacy of its work, as they seek to compete and survive in this landscape (de St Croix, 2018, de St Croix, McGimpsey andOwens, 2020;Jones and Royles, 2020).…”

Crisis, Continuity, and Missed Opportunity: Tracing a Transnational Solidarity Economy across Europe in Turbulent Times

“…At the same time, CSOs have also been recognised for meeting the basic needs of a wide range of vulnerable groups in society at local and national levels (Henderson et al 2020;Kelly et al 2021). The fact that, in some cases, CSOs have been performing a welfare function is not new (Peck and Tickell 2002;Markantoni et al 2018) and issues surrounding the role of CSOs in welfare provision are well-established in the literature (Swyngedouw 2005;Brandsen and Pestoff 2006;Steiner et al 2021;Baglioni and Giugni 2014;Jones and Royles 2020).…”