The Routledge handbook of social change
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The Routledge handbook of social change
（Routledge handbooks）
Routledge, 2023
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Few other texts on this subject are so comprehensive or interdisciplinary - this handbook draws together approaches to social change from across different fields of academic research, policy and activism.
Contributors drawn from various disciplines including anthropology, human geography, political sociology, and development studies.
Up-to-date introduction covering current and emerging methodologies, practices and topics.
Table of Contents
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
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