Collective Action
eBook - ePub

Collective Action

Tribes, Empires, Nations, and Protest Movements

  1. 136 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Collective Action

Tribes, Empires, Nations, and Protest Movements

About this book

This book examines how different levels and forms of human collectivity have interacted, voluntarily or coercively, and how these transformed societies and polities.

Every size and type of human collective involve co-operation among members and competition with other groups. The two most recent trends in human relations – individualism and economic globalisation – have contributed to authoritarianism in politics and inequality among citizens. This book analyses how collective action might offset the most destructive consequences for well-being of these two tendencies. It explores these manifestations of collective action and their impact on social relations and social policies in the developed world. Further, the volume sets out a programme for more progressive and egalitarian future for global populations.

Engaging, accessible and transdisciplinary, this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of politics and public policy, sociology, social psychology, social policy and social work, as well as political philosophy, political economy and migration studies.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half Title page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. 1 Introduction
  9. 2 The History and Dynamics of Collective Action: Crisis and Transformation
  10. 3 Relationships: The Dynamics of Feeling
  11. 4 Couples and Families
  12. 5 Well-being and Social Value
  13. 6 Civic Relationships and Civil Society
  14. 7 Globalisation
  15. 8 Conflict and Coercion
  16. 9 A New Direction?
  17. 10 The Revival of Nationalism
  18. 11 The State
  19. 12 Mobility and Migration
  20. 13 Extremism, Political and Religious
  21. 14 Nations and Sustainability
  22. 15 A New Cold War?
  23. 16 A New Basis for Citizenship
  24. 17 Conclusions
  25. Index