The Routledge Handbook of Social Change

Herausgeber: Ballard, Richard; Barnett, Clive

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Routledge Handbook of Social Change provides an interdisciplinary primer to the intellectual approaches that hold the key to understanding the complexity of social change in the twenty-first century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 386
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 835g
• ISBN-13: 9780815365471
• ISBN-10: 0815365470
• Artikelnr.: 66498142

Autorenporträt

Richard Ballard is a Principal Researcher at the Gauteng City-Region Observatory (a partnership between the provincial government of Gauteng, the University of Johannesburg and the University of the Witwatersrand) and a visiting Professor at the University of Johannesburg. He is a geographer with a focus on social and spatial transformation in South Africa. Clive Barnett was Professor of Geography and Social Theory at the University of Exeter, UK. His most recent book is The priority of injustice: locating democracy in critical theory (2017).

Inhaltsangabe

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 conjuncture: 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 object and agent 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 25
Everyday resistance: theorising how the 'weak' change the world 26
Contentious politics: politics as claims-making 27 Civil resistance:
theorising the force of nonviolent action 28 Collective action: assembling
issues 29 Eventful infrastructures: contingencies of socio-material change
30 Practices of social change: approaching political action through
practice theory