Guide to the Systems of Provision Approach

Dr Kate Bayliss is a Research Fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies, SOAS, University of London, UK, and Visiting Researcher at University of Leeds, UK. She has researched the nature and impact of privatization in provisioning infrastructure and essential services for over two decades, working with UN and other agencies. She has worked on Systems of Provision as Senior Research Fellow at the University of Leeds under the Living Well Within Limits Project, https://lili.leeds.ac.uk/, and at SOAS under the FESSUD project, especially for water, health, housing and energy, http://fessud.eu/ Professor Ben Fine is Emeritus Professor of Economics, School of Oriental and African Studies, SOAS, University of London, UK. He has (co)authored or edited over thirty books and published over 250 articles, with strong commitment to interdisciplinarity.  He served for a decade as a founding member of the Social Science Research Committee of the UK’s Food Standards Agency, chairing the Working Group on Reform of Slaughterhouse Controls. He has advised UNDP, UNRISD, UNDESA, UNCTAD, Oxfam and other progressive civil society organizations and trade unions. He led the FESSUD programme on the financialization of systems of provision. He is Chair of the International Initiative for Promoting Political Economy, http://iippe.org/

• Chapter 1 – Introduction: Background to the SoP Approach.- Chapter 2 – The SoP Approach: Theoretical Background and Empirical Practice.- Chapter 3 – Understanding Material Cultures.- Chapter 4 – Insights from Operationalizing the SoP Approach.- Chapter 5 – A SoP Approach to Understanding Food Consumption.- Chapter 6 - Conclusion – The Contribution of the SoP Approach.