WELCOME TO PAUL STUBBS' HOME PAGE!
I am a British (Liverpool) born sociologist living and working in Croatia since 1993. I am currently a Senior Research Fellow in the Institute of Economics, Zagreb
I am also an Associate of the Globalism and Social Policy Programme - on this page you can find a number of articles of mine to download.
I am also an Associate of the South East European Research Centre - which is located in Thessaloniki Greece
My current research interests include:
- International Actors and Social Policy in South-Eastern Europe (a book on this topic, co-edited by Bob Deacon, has been published by Edward Elgar in October 2007 - more details here)
- Transnational Governmentalities, Intermediaries and Translation in South Eastern Europe (joint work with Noemi Lendvai and a series of seminars funded by the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung in Zagreb - read more about the Transnational Governmentality Workshops here)
- Social Policy Reform in Croatia (joint work with Siniša Zrinščak and others)
- Civil Society and Social Movements in Post-Yugoslav Countries
- Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability Reporting
- Innovation, Clusters, and Networking
- Community Development and Mobilization in Croatia
this wiki
On this wiki I am planning to make available more recent texts, works in progress, and details of workshops, conferences, etc which I am involved in.
Warning to Star Trek fans
From Memory Alpha, the free Star Trek reference
I am not THAT Doctor Paul Stubbs although some might say there are similiarities :-)
Doctor Paul Stubbs was an astrophysicist who devoted his entire life's work to the study of a neutron star/red giant star system in the Kavis Alpha sector. The neutron star was remarkable for the fact that it sucked up matter from the red giant, which exploded every 196 years.
Recent Texts
* This text (March 2009) http://vrijemeje.com/node/29
is a short contribution of mine to an extremely interesting web site/initiative seeking to respond in a more nuanced way to the current crisis. Comments are welcome.
* This text SPACroatia Revised FINAL.pdfSPACroatia Revised FINAL.pdf on Croatian social policy by Siniša Zrinščak and myself appeared in volume 43 (2) 121-135 (2009) of the journal Social Policy and Administration (Blackwell publishing). The special issue focuses on welfare in Central and Eastern Europe
* Reflections on International Actors and the Making of Social Policy in Croatia is available online from the Revija za socijalnu politiku (Croatian Journal of Social Policy). It is in a special issue of the journal in honour of Professor Vlado Puljiz published in NOVEMBER 2008. www.rsp.hr/ojs2/index.php/rsp/article/viewFile/776/719
* Studies on Social protection and Social Inclusion in the Western Balkans. I am the author of the synthesis report (January 2009) which can be found at: http://ec.europa.eu/employment_social/spsi/docs/social_inclusion/2008/wb_synthesis_report_en.pdf and co-author of the report on Kosovo which can be found at: http://ec.europa.eu/employment_social/spsi/docs/social_inclusion/2008/kosovo_en.pdf. These are part of a series of independent studies for the European Commission.
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Social Region Stubbs.pdf Forthcoming text on the Regional Dimension of Social Policy in South East Europe, NEW August 2008 to be published by Friedrich Ebert stiftung
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Conclusions from the book edited by myself and Bob Deacon 'Social Policy and International Interventions in South East Europe'. Chapter 12 is authored by Bob Deacon, Noemi Lendvai and Paul Stubbs
Myself and Bob Deacon at the book launch in Skopje 15 February 2008
LendvaiStubbsPolicyTranslation.pdf Policies as Translation by Noemi Lendvai and Paul Stubbs in Hodgson and Irving (eds) Policy Reconsidered published in late 2007 by Policy Press *
'Mobilizacija i razvoj zajednica' (Croatian language text) New book on Community development and Mobilisation in Croatia published by MAP Savjetovanja and edited by Marina Škrabalo, Nives Miošić-Lisjak and Jasmina Papa. The whole book is available on MAP's web pages. There are two chapters authored by myself.
This photo was taken at the Book Launch in Booksa left to right: Mia Papa Stubbs; Jasmina Papa; Dražen Lalić; Paul Stubbs; Tea Skokić; Luka Papa Stubbs; Marina Škrabalo
Social Protection and Social Inclusion in Croatia This 2006 report by myself and colleagues at the Institute of Economics, Zagreb for The European Commission, Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities DG served as an independent background study for the drawing up of Croatia's
Joint Inclusion Memorandum (JIM).
The Za Mir (for peace)network: from transnational social movement to Croatian NGO?
This updates the story of
Za Mir which I first wrote about in 1998. It continues my
interest in understanding computer-mediated activism. It has appeared online in a collection of texts from a conference in Sheffield in 2004. Some of the other papers are extremely interesting and can be downloaded from this site.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS September 2005 - present
RecentConferencePresentations
Here you can find copies of some of my recent and forthcoming conference papers.
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CompleteCvandPublications
Interview (H-alter 5 November 2006)
Here you can find an interview with me, in Croatian language, in the web magazine H-alter, primarily on the topic of the (lack of) meaning of the concept of 'civil society'.
Interview (Jutarnji list 11 August 2007)
Here is a new interview with me in Croatia's leading mass circulation daily newspaper. As you can see from some of the Forum comments, my attempt to discuss 'captured', 'active' and 'smart' social policy in Croatia did not go down well with everyone!
Different individual visitors since 26 March 2008
MILESTONES: 500 individual visitors 20 August 2008 - thanks for visiting!
1000th visitor - 11 January 2009
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