C. Cooper

Community, Conflict and the State

Rethinking Notions of 'safety', 'cohesion' and 'wellbeing'

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Produktbeschreibung

Cooper analyzes how notions of "community," "conflict," "dangerousness" and "safety" have been used and understood in British social policy. By offering a conceptually grounded treatment of these themes, the book seeks to encourage the reader to reflect on the practical policy-oriented application of these ideas under New Labour, particularly in relation to "community safety." The final chapter concludes by revisiting theses four core notions, and in doing so, seeks to expose the myths and contradictions that commonly accompany broad-range concepts of this nature.

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Community safety is a narrowly defined concept that allows states to ignore arguably more serious threats caused by pro-market policies and the actions of major corporations. This book redresses the idea of what constitutes a social harm and outlines a new policy agenda.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Macmillan Education / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-4039-9832-3
• 2008
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. September 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 137mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 465g
• ISBN-13: 9781403998323
• ISBN-10: 1403998329
• Artikelnr.: 22628395

Autorenporträt

CHARLIE COOPER is Lecturer in Social Policy, University of Hull, UK. He has taught on housing studies, urban policy and social policy, and previously worked in the voluntary sector, primarily for housing associations.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 'Community', Conflict and the State: The Historical Field Concepts of 'Community' and 'Conflict' New Labour, Community Safety, Cohesion and Wellbeing Rethinking Community Safety, Cohesion and Wellbeing Conclusions: Community Wellbeing for All?

Rezensionen

'In the depth of global recession this is certainly a timely book...Cooper sets himself an ambitious challenge, yet he succeeds in negotiating a way through a highly diverse range of policy, conceptual and theoretical developments...an invaluable resource for students in the social sciences...' - Social Policy and Administration