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Building better societies : promoting social justice in a world falling apart /

This book looks at what is needed to prevent the proliferation of harm and the gradual collapse of civil society. A wide range of expert contributors outline what might help to make better societies and which mechanisms, interventions and evidence are needed when we think about a better society.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Atkinson, Rowland (Editor ), Mckenzie, Lisa (Editor ), Winlow, Simon (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol, UK : Policy Press, 2017.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Who would not be for society?-- pt. 1 Problems
  • The social question and the urgency of care
  • Better politics: Narratives of indignation and the possibility of a prosocial politics
  • Valuing and strengthening community
  • pt. 2 Ideas
  • Confronting the roots of violent behaviour
  • In defence of the public city
  • Artfully thinking the prosocial
  • Re-visioning exclusion in local communities
  • Putting `the social' back into social policy
  • pt. 3 Futures
  • Progress through protest
  • Cities, crises and the future
  • Policy steps towards a better social future
  • The (in)visibility of riches, urban life and exclusion
  • The uses of catastrophism
  • Conclusion
  • Thinking prosocially.