New Publication: Climate Disasters, Philanthropy, and the State

Read my new case study on the recent transformation of the Canadian Red Cross under climate change. It was published today in PhiLab’s December special edition on climate change and the environment. I show that increased natural disasters have expanded the role of the Red Cross, first through philanthropic funding and later on through government supports. Today, the Red Cross is an indispensable part of a growing area of Canadian social policy: emergency social services. This case shows an instance of welfare nonprofitization in action and points to the connections between philanthropy and welfare state expansion.

The case study is based on research done for my Ph.D. dissertation. You can see the case in full here in chapter three of my dissertation, “The Nonprofitized Welfare State”.