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Papers by Jimi O Adesina

South African review of sociology, Jul 3, 2015

ABSTRACT The Welfare (State) Regime Paradigm is rife with paradoxes. In spite of the general awar... more ABSTRACT The Welfare (State) Regime Paradigm is rife with paradoxes. In spite of the general awareness of the much wider remit of Social Policy (as a field of study and public policy), the paradigm has narrowed the focus of the field to a set of social protection instruments. This is most evident in the ‘decommodification’ index used in Esping-Andersen's original typology. Equally problematic is the idea of ‘decommodification’. The diminution of social policy finds its most ardent expression in the late 20th century neoliberal take on social policy, although for normative reasons that many Social Policy scholars would find objectionable. Reclaiming the wider vision of social policy requires re-reading history and the pioneers. It is against this background that we set out the idea of transformative social policy and the wider vision of Social Policy at the epistemic and policy levels. Central to this are the multiple tasks of social policy, the diversity of instruments for addressing the ‘social question’, and the inherent inter-connection between economic and social policies.

Langaa RPCIG eBooks, Nov 4, 2011

Codesria Bulletin, Jan 17, 2021

Africa Development, Oct 4, 2021

Journal of Higher Education in Africa, May 14, 2006

... rein posed to both the government of the federation and British interest in the ... field of ... more ... rein posed to both the government of the federation and British interest in the ... field of education that was made possible by increased resources from Nigeria's petroleum wealth. ... was the system of federally funded education loans, with generous repayment schedules and rates. ...

African Journal of International Affairs, Sep 9, 2009

Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks, 2007

Labour, capital and society, 1989

L'article traite de la conscience et de la résistance ouvrières. La conscience ouvrière est, selo... more L'article traite de la conscience et de la résistance ouvrières. La conscience ouvrière est, selon l'auteur, une réalité plus complexe que ne le laissent entendre certains ouvrages. Quoique indiscociable du vécu, elle est souvent nourrie de définitions du réel imposées de l'extérieur. C'est dans les collectivités, à l'usine et ailleurs, que les ouvriers s'assument comme "pauvres" et définissent une éthique de "proto-classe" que l'auteur appelle "morale alternative". L'existance de cette morale et de ces collectivités autonomes est évidente dans la résistance qui se manifeste sur le tas. C'est cette conscience qui alimente la dimension collective des actes individuels de rébelion et les révoltes ouvrières dont le Nigéria est régulièrement le théâtre.
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The article deals with worker consciousness and resistance. Workers' consciousness is, according to the author, a more complex reality than certain works suggest. Although inseparable from experience, it is often nourished by definitions of reality imposed from the outside. It is in the communities, in the factory and elsewhere, that the workers accept themselves as "poor" and define a "proto-class" ethic that the author calls "alternative morality". The existence of this morality and these autonomous communities is evident in the resistance that manifests itself on the job. It is this consciousness which fuels the collective dimension of individual acts of rebellion and the workers' revolts of which Nigeria is regularly the scene.

Journal of Higher Education in Africa

The crisis that engulfed the higher education sector in many developing countries from the mid-19... more The crisis that engulfed the higher education sector in many developing countries from the mid-1970s in many ways epitomised a much wider socio-economic and political crisis. In much of Africa the balance of payment crisis compounded an uneasy relationship between the rulers and academia. However, addressing the cri- sis in the 1980s was defined by the emergent neo-liberal mindset. It was also an ideological posture that saw the academy as a domain of a ‘leftist leisure class’ that needed market discipline. Education as a public good was replaced by a commodity logic. The impact of the neo-liberal orthodoxy on the higher education sector, how- ever, varied widely across counties. In countries whose education policy came un- der the direct control of the Bretton Woods institutions, the orthodoxy drove policy as close to its ideological posturing as possible. In many developing countries commodification of access has impacted harshly on research activities in the higher education sect...

Ife Psychologia, Sep 1, 2017

Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy: A triannual Journal of Agrarian South Network and CARES

The heated debate around Section 25 of the South African Constitution and the principle of “expro... more The heated debate around Section 25 of the South African Constitution and the principle of “expropriation of land without compensation” is conspicuously missing the inextricable link between land, water, and gender questions. Within former settler colonies, the “land question” is a “water question” and, by extension, also a “gender question.” The racially inequitable land distribution, codified in the Native Land Act of 1913, mirrored the unequal distribution of rights and access to water as codified in the Water Act of 1956. This was compounded by the gender question, in which lack of access to land for women mutated into lack of access to other productive resources. While secondary data analysis reveals that blacks control only 5.8% of agricultural water uses, Black women control less than 1%. Such intersectionality of race, class, and gender ought to remain a relentless focus of transformative social policy in South Africa.

Gender and behaviour, Dec 1, 2017

South African review of sociology, Jul 3, 2015

ABSTRACT The Welfare (State) Regime Paradigm is rife with paradoxes. In spite of the general awar... more ABSTRACT The Welfare (State) Regime Paradigm is rife with paradoxes. In spite of the general awareness of the much wider remit of Social Policy (as a field of study and public policy), the paradigm has narrowed the focus of the field to a set of social protection instruments. This is most evident in the ‘decommodification’ index used in Esping-Andersen's original typology. Equally problematic is the idea of ‘decommodification’. The diminution of social policy finds its most ardent expression in the late 20th century neoliberal take on social policy, although for normative reasons that many Social Policy scholars would find objectionable. Reclaiming the wider vision of social policy requires re-reading history and the pioneers. It is against this background that we set out the idea of transformative social policy and the wider vision of Social Policy at the epistemic and policy levels. Central to this are the multiple tasks of social policy, the diversity of instruments for addressing the ‘social question’, and the inherent inter-connection between economic and social policies.

Langaa RPCIG eBooks, Nov 4, 2011

Codesria Bulletin, Jan 17, 2021

Africa Development, Oct 4, 2021

Journal of Higher Education in Africa, May 14, 2006

... rein posed to both the government of the federation and British interest in the ... field of ... more ... rein posed to both the government of the federation and British interest in the ... field of education that was made possible by increased resources from Nigeria's petroleum wealth. ... was the system of federally funded education loans, with generous repayment schedules and rates. ...

African Journal of International Affairs, Sep 9, 2009

Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks, 2007

Labour, capital and society, 1989

L'article traite de la conscience et de la résistance ouvrières. La conscience ouvrière est, selo... more L'article traite de la conscience et de la résistance ouvrières. La conscience ouvrière est, selon l'auteur, une réalité plus complexe que ne le laissent entendre certains ouvrages. Quoique indiscociable du vécu, elle est souvent nourrie de définitions du réel imposées de l'extérieur. C'est dans les collectivités, à l'usine et ailleurs, que les ouvriers s'assument comme "pauvres" et définissent une éthique de "proto-classe" que l'auteur appelle "morale alternative". L'existance de cette morale et de ces collectivités autonomes est évidente dans la résistance qui se manifeste sur le tas. C'est cette conscience qui alimente la dimension collective des actes individuels de rébelion et les révoltes ouvrières dont le Nigéria est régulièrement le théâtre.
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The article deals with worker consciousness and resistance. Workers' consciousness is, according to the author, a more complex reality than certain works suggest. Although inseparable from experience, it is often nourished by definitions of reality imposed from the outside. It is in the communities, in the factory and elsewhere, that the workers accept themselves as "poor" and define a "proto-class" ethic that the author calls "alternative morality". The existence of this morality and these autonomous communities is evident in the resistance that manifests itself on the job. It is this consciousness which fuels the collective dimension of individual acts of rebellion and the workers' revolts of which Nigeria is regularly the scene.

Journal of Higher Education in Africa

The crisis that engulfed the higher education sector in many developing countries from the mid-19... more The crisis that engulfed the higher education sector in many developing countries from the mid-1970s in many ways epitomised a much wider socio-economic and political crisis. In much of Africa the balance of payment crisis compounded an uneasy relationship between the rulers and academia. However, addressing the cri- sis in the 1980s was defined by the emergent neo-liberal mindset. It was also an ideological posture that saw the academy as a domain of a ‘leftist leisure class’ that needed market discipline. Education as a public good was replaced by a commodity logic. The impact of the neo-liberal orthodoxy on the higher education sector, how- ever, varied widely across counties. In countries whose education policy came un- der the direct control of the Bretton Woods institutions, the orthodoxy drove policy as close to its ideological posturing as possible. In many developing countries commodification of access has impacted harshly on research activities in the higher education sect...

Ife Psychologia, Sep 1, 2017

Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy: A triannual Journal of Agrarian South Network and CARES

The heated debate around Section 25 of the South African Constitution and the principle of “expro... more The heated debate around Section 25 of the South African Constitution and the principle of “expropriation of land without compensation” is conspicuously missing the inextricable link between land, water, and gender questions. Within former settler colonies, the “land question” is a “water question” and, by extension, also a “gender question.” The racially inequitable land distribution, codified in the Native Land Act of 1913, mirrored the unequal distribution of rights and access to water as codified in the Water Act of 1956. This was compounded by the gender question, in which lack of access to land for women mutated into lack of access to other productive resources. While secondary data analysis reveals that blacks control only 5.8% of agricultural water uses, Black women control less than 1%. Such intersectionality of race, class, and gender ought to remain a relentless focus of transformative social policy in South Africa.

Gender and behaviour, Dec 1, 2017