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A Guide to the Systems of Provision ApproachInsights from Operationalizing the Systems of Provision Approach

A Guide to the Systems of Provision Approach: Insights from Operationalizing the Systems of... [This chapter is concerned with applications of the SoP approach in practice and is oriented around the themes of social policy and social reproduction. The chapter first explores some of the contributions of the SoP approach to wider areas of scholarship, including consumption studies and understandings of social policy. The chapter then turns to explore more specific SoP applications focusing on selected areas of everyday life covering housing, water, health services and ‘fast’ fashion. The cases are mostly with reference to UK but with some case study material from South Africa, and the fashion case study relates to global supply chains. The chapter highlights the diversity in the materiality of what is provided, and the SoPs by which each of these reaches consumers or end users, across sectors and locations. This diversity across these cases clearly demonstrates that the drivers of consumption cannot be reduced to simple assumptions that are universally applicable. Furthermore, in the act of ‘consuming’, the consumer engages in an extensive chain of social relations but in ways of which they can be mostly unaware. The SoP approach unveils what is generally hidden from the consumer at the point of consumption.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Guide to the Systems of Provision ApproachInsights from Operationalizing the Systems of Provision Approach

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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
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978-3-030-54142-2
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73 –105
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10.1007/978-3-030-54143-9_4
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[This chapter is concerned with applications of the SoP approach in practice and is oriented around the themes of social policy and social reproduction. The chapter first explores some of the contributions of the SoP approach to wider areas of scholarship, including consumption studies and understandings of social policy. The chapter then turns to explore more specific SoP applications focusing on selected areas of everyday life covering housing, water, health services and ‘fast’ fashion. The cases are mostly with reference to UK but with some case study material from South Africa, and the fashion case study relates to global supply chains. The chapter highlights the diversity in the materiality of what is provided, and the SoPs by which each of these reaches consumers or end users, across sectors and locations. This diversity across these cases clearly demonstrates that the drivers of consumption cannot be reduced to simple assumptions that are universally applicable. Furthermore, in the act of ‘consuming’, the consumer engages in an extensive chain of social relations but in ways of which they can be mostly unaware. The SoP approach unveils what is generally hidden from the consumer at the point of consumption.]

Published: Jan 5, 2021

Keywords: SoP approach; WRA; Social Policy; Social Reproduction; Housing consumption; Health Systems, NHS

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