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Title:

Building better societies : promoting social justice in a world falling apart / edited by Rowland Atkinson, Lisa Mckenzie and Simon Winlow.

Publisher:

Policy Press,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

vi, 206 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Social problems--21st century.

Other Authors:

Atkinson, Rowland, editor.
Mckenzie, Lisa, editor.
Winlow, Simon, editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Fifteen. Thinking prosocially / Lisa Mckenzie. pt. 1 Problems -- Two. The social question and the urgency of care / Iain Wilkinson -- Three. Better politics: Narratives of indignation and the possibility of a prosocial politics / Keith Jacobs -- Four. Valuing and strengthening community / Lisa Mckenzie -- pt. 2 Ideas -- Five. Confronting the roots of violent behaviour / Anthony Ellis -- Six. In defence of the public city / Martin Coward -- Seven. Artfully thinking the prosocial / Richard Williams -- Eight. Re-visioning exclusion in local communities / Paul Ward -- Nine. Putting `the social' back into social policy / Alan Walker -- pt. 3 Futures -- Ten. Progress through protest / Samuel Burgum -- Eleven. Cities, crises and the future / Sophie Body-Gendrot -- Twelve. Policy steps towards a better social future / Michael Orton -- Thirteen. The (in)visibility of riches, urban life and exclusion / Rowland Atkinson -- Fourteen. The uses of catastrophism / Simon Winlow -- Conclusion -- Fifteen. Thinking prosocially / Lisa Mckenzie.

ISBN:

1447332032
9781447332039
1447332024
9781447332022

OCLC:

(OCoLC)990020518

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)