The Routledge Handbook of Social Change (Hardcover)

Apprehensions of Social Change Richard Ballard and Clive Barnett Part I: Living in a world of change Reactionary anti-globalism: the crisis of Globalisation Matthew Sparke The production of surplus populations: informality, marginality, and labour Nik Theodore The Anthropocene: representations of change on ‘the human planet’ Noel Castree Ecologies of infrastructure: materialities of metabolic change Pushpa Arabindoo White Victimhood: weaponising identity and resistance to social change Nicky Falkof Using rights: European migrant-citizens in Brexitland Kuba Jablonowski The COVID-19 pandemic: capitalism, ecosystem crisis, and the political economy of disaster Bue Rubner Hansen Part II: Modes of Change Reform and revolution: dialectics of causation Donagh Davis Crisis and conjuncture: the contested politics of constructing crises John Clarke Structural stories: on the transformational dynamics of context Clive Barnett Innovation at the limits of social change: uncertainty and design in the Anthropocene Lauren Rickards, Kevin Grove, and Stephanie Wakefield Prefiguration: imaginaries beyond revolution and the state Anthony Ince Catastrophe as usual: learning to live with extremity Nigel Clark Part III: Agents of Change The state: catching sight of an object and agent of change Glyn Williams NGOs as change agents: being and doing change Diana Mitlin Parties: the fall and rise of mass party politics Nick Clarke The Economy: metaphors and models of social change Sian Butcher Knowledge: wellbeing in global public policy Jessica Pykett Technology: determinism, automation, and mediation Samuel Kinsley The people: between populism and the masses Anna Selmeczi Citizen action: participation and making claims Charlotte Lemanski Activism: activist identities beyond social movements Daniel Conway Part IV: Approaching Social Change Imaginations of power: analysing possibilities of change Kiara Worth Everyday resistance: theorising how the ‘weak’ change the world Richard Ballard Contentious politics: politics as claims-making Clare Saunders Civil resistance: theorising the force of nonviolent action Jonathan Pinckney Collective action: assembling issues Gerda Roelvink Eventful infrastructures: contingencies of socio-material change Anders Blok Practices of social change: approaching political action through practice theory Daniel Welch and Luke Yates