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socialnet International

ISSN 2627-6348

socialnet International publishes social economy country portraits, book reviews, academic articles in a global context.

The country portraits/country profiles may be of interest for all who would like to gain a first substantial overview of the socio-political, socio-economic and social work-related situation in the respective countries.
Be it in terms of professional peer-to-peer interaction, for explorers, student exchanges, public agencies or social enterprises. Furthermore the growing cross-border need for social care provision and the digital transformation increasingly call for international and transnational knowledge education.

The articles of designated experts are published in German and English.

For further information, questions or suggestions feel free to contact us.

Volker Brinkmann and Doris Scheer
socialnet International

socialnet International Zoom Conference

Authoritarian Transformations in Social Policy and Social Work

Please save the date: 2nd December 2025, 16.00h–19.00h

Dear colleagues,
with growing concern we are witnessing the global trend to weaken and dissolve social policies and social work structures and agencies. These developments have a worrying short-term and long-term impact on our work at the local level, but also at the international level.

As an international network with colleagues around the globe involved in observing, monitoring, analysing social policies as well as carrying out concrete social economy and social work activities, we consider it necessary to share our observations with our network partners.

For this reason we cordially invite you to join our online network conference (2nd December, 16.00h) where we aim to initiate an exchange and a discussion on these trends and, where possible, seek approaches that enable us to work together on counteracting approaches and solutions.

For further information, please visit the conference page.

We are looking forward to hearing from you and to your participation in our network
conference.

With kind regards
Volker Brinkmann and Doris Scheer
socialnet International

Country Portraits

12 Country Portraits by publication date

Scientific Papers

12 Papers by publication date

• Nature Relations: Buen Vivir
  2022-11-23  Ronald Lutz
• Whither informal social security – Reflections on Zimbabwe social welfare provisions
  2022-07-28  Tatenda Nhapi
• Cooperation across borders in Europe
  2022-04-04  Sina Redlich
• Social Work of the South: Political, anti-colonial, environmental
  2021-06-09  Ronald Lutz, Tanja Kleibl, Franziska Neureither
• International social work amidst global uncertainties: A critical analysis
  2021-04-30  Ndangwa Noyoo
• Outline of a monograph on the social protection system in Morocco
  2021-01-31  Brahim Labari
• Of myths and fundamentalism. Contradictory India
  2020-09-29  Ronald Lutz
• Corona and Increasing Global Inequality
  2020-06-29  Tanja Kleibl, Ronald Lutz
• International Social Work
  2020-06-09  Ronald Lutz, Alexander Stauss
• Angry spirits and gods? Natural catastrophes, crises, witchcraft and religious attacks in Mozambique
  2020-06-09  Tanja Kleibl, Ronald Lutz
• Social Capital for Smart and Sustainable Development in Lithuania
  2019-06-06  Giedrė Kvieskienė, Vytautas Kvieska
• Social Work and Social Welfare in Canada
  2019-06-06  Jeanette Elizabeth Schmid