Building better societies : promoting social justice in a world falling apart /
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| Imprint: | Bristol ; Chicago, IL : Policy Press, 2017. |
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| 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 |
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
