The Routledge Handbook of Social Change (Paperback, 1)

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