Building better societies : promoting social justice in a world falling apart /
edited by Rowland Atkinson, Lisa Mckenzie and Simon Winlow
- Bristol, UK : Policy Press, 2017
- vi, 206 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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.
9781447332039 P 18.99
Social problems. Social policy. Social science--General.