{"id":12356,"date":"2025-04-24T11:53:32","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T09:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/people.unipi.it\/matteo_villa\/?p=12356"},"modified":"2026-06-08T16:57:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T14:57:01","slug":"call-for-papers-eco-social-policies-and-work-in-the-poly-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.unipi.it\/matteo_villa\/call-for-papers-eco-social-policies-and-work-in-the-poly-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for papers: Eco-Social Policies and Work in the Poly-Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Important note: new deadline 30 October 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

More info and instructions: here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guest Editors:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Barbara Da Roit<\/strong>, Ca\u2019 Foscari University of Venice <\/em>
Matteo Villa<\/strong>, University of Pisa<\/em>
Elisa Matutini<\/strong>, Ca\u2019 Foscari University of Venice <\/em>
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Call for paper:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the wake of the 21st century, it has become clear that rapid demographic, social, economic, and ecological changes are occurring in interconnected ways. This awareness has prompted international organizations, national and local policy makers and stakeholders to develop strategies that jointly tackle social, economic and ecological challenges<\/strong> (Waltrup et al., 2025), addressing the \u201cinstitutional missing link\u201d between the environmental and social domains (Bostr\u00f6m, 2012).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eco-social policies<\/strong>, explicitly pursuing both environmental and social policy goals in an integrated way (Mandelli, 2022), started to emerge. At the same time, the acknowledgement of the connections between environmental health and human well-being has led to the development of more ecologically and socially sustainable models of local socio-political practices (eco-social work<\/strong>; Matthies and Narhi, 2017).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Against this background, welfare state scholars have increasingly focused on if and how social policies are being transformed (Gough, 2017) to integrate ecological principles and move toward sustainable welfare (Hirvilammi and Koch, 2020). However, such an object of study has not yet established itself, while research in this field needs to expand and embed its lens in the complex dynamics of the current poly-crisis<\/strong> (Cucca et al., 2023; Fritz and Lee, 2023; Snell et al. 2023): the deepening ecological crisis (e.g., loss of biodiversity, Keck et al., 2025; likely breaching 1.5\u00b0C temperature threshold, WMO, 2025a; increasing extreme events, WMO, 2025b); the growing armed, trade and migration conflicts and the growing climate\u2013conflict\u2013(in)security nexus (Conca and Dabelko, 2024); the chaotic dynamics in global value chains (automotive, energy, agriculture, fashion, digitization); the shift in political attention from ecological concerns to rearmament (Wik and Neal, 2024); and the combined effects of climate change and the rapid ageing of the population on health and care needs (WHO, 2022).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In such a difficult context, we know little about<\/strong> the way eco-social policies and eco-social work practices emerge and diffuse, how they relate with pre-existing policies, innovations and disruptions, and to what extent they may reach their multiple goals dealing with conflicting eco-social transitions  on the ground (Benegiamo et al., 2023).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This Special Issue welcomes interdisciplinary contributions that address one or more of the following questions<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n