ISBN:
9781351261548
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (400 pages)
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DDC:
303.4
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- CONTENTS -- Illustrations -- Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Apprehensions of Social Change -- PART I: Living in a world of change -- 2. Reactionary Anti-Globalism: The Crisis of Globalisation -- 3. The Production of Surplus Populations: Informality, Marginality, and Labour -- 4. The Anthropocene: Representations of Change on 'The Human Planet' -- 5. Ecologies of Infrastructure: Materialities of Metabolic Change -- 6. White Victimhood: Weaponising Identity and Resistance to Social Change -- 7. Using Rights: European Migrant-Citizens in Brexitland -- 8. The COVID-19 Pandemic: Capitalism, Ecosystem Crisis, and the Political Economy of Disaster -- PART II: Modes of change -- 9. Reform and Revolution: Dialectics of Causation -- 10. Crisis and Change: The Contested Politics of Constructing Crises -- 11. Structural Stories: On the Transformational Dynamics of Context -- 12. Innovation at the Limits of Social Change: Uncertainty and Design in the Anthropocene -- 13. Prefiguration: Imaginaries Beyond Revolution and the State -- 14. Catastrophe as Usual: Learning to Live with Extremity -- PART III: Agents of change -- 15. The State: Catching Sight of an Agent and Object of Change -- 16. NGOs as Change Agents: Being and Doing Change -- 17. Parties: The Fall and Rise of Mass Party Politics -- 18. The Economy: Metaphors and Models of Social Change -- 19. Knowledge: Wellbeing in Global Public Policy -- 20. Technology: Determinism, Automation, and Mediation -- 21. The People: Between Populism and the Masses -- 22. Citizen Action: Participation and Making Claims -- 23. Activism: Activist Identities beyond Social Movements -- PART IV: Approaching social change -- 24. Imaginations of Power: Analysing Possibilities of Change.
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