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

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Imprint:Bristol ; Chicago, IL : Policy Press, 2017.
Description:vi, 206 pages ; 24 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11340931
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Other authors / contributors:Atkinson, Rowland, editor.
Mckenzie, Lisa, editor.
Winlow, Simon, editor.
ISBN:1447332032
9781447332039
1447332024
9781447332022
9781447332046
9781447332053
9781447332015
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Notes on contributors
  • 1. Who would not be for society?
  • Part 1. Problems
  • 2. The social question and the urgency of care
  • 3. Better politics: Narratives of indignation and the possibility of a prosocial politics
  • 4. Valuing and strengthening community
  • Part 2. Ideas
  • 5. Confronting the roots of violent behaviour
  • 6. In defence of the public city
  • 7. Artfully thinking the prosocial
  • 8. Re-visioning exclusion in local communities
  • 9. Putting 'the social' back into social policy
  • Part 3. Futures
  • 10. Progress through protest
  • 11. Cities, crises and the future
  • 12. Policy steps towards a better social future
  • 13. The (in)visibility of riches, urban life and exclusion
  • 14. The uses of catastrophism
  • Conclusion
  • 15. Thinking prosocially
  • Index