The Struggle for Social Sustainability
eBook - ePub

The Struggle for Social Sustainability

Moral Conflicts in Global Social Policy

  1. 382 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Struggle for Social Sustainability

Moral Conflicts in Global Social Policy

About this book

The ongoing social crises and moral conflicts evident in global social policy debates are addressed in this timely volume.

Leading interdisciplinary scholars focus on the 'social' of social policy, which is increasingly conceived in a globalised form, as new international agreements and global goals engender social struggles. They tackle pressing 'social questions', many of which have been exacerbated by COVID-19, including growing inequality, changing world population, ageing societies, migration and intersectional disadvantage.

This ground-breaking volume critically engages with contested conceptions of the social which are increasingly deployed by international institutions and policy makers. Focusing on social sustainability, social cohesion, social justice, social wellbeing and social progress this text is even more crucial as policy makers look to accelerate socially sustainable solutions to the world's biggest challenges.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. List of boxes, figures and tables
  6. List of abbreviations
  7. Notes on contributors
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Preface
  10. 1 The ‘social’ in the age of sustainability
  11. 2 ‘No such thing as society’? Neoliberalism and the social
  12. 3 The social question: reconciling social and economic imperatives in policy
  13. 4 Disputing the economization and the de-politicization of ‘social’ investment in global social policy
  14. 5 The social dimension of sustainable development at the UN: from Brundtland to the SDGs
  15. 6 Paradigm lost? Blocking the path to ecosocial welfare and post-productivism
  16. 7 World population prospects at the UN: our numbers are not our problem?
  17. 8 Ageing sustainably
  18. 9 The political challenges to governing global migration and social welfare
  19. 10 Bringing in ‘the social’: an intersectional analysis of global crises and welfare
  20. 11 Global social policy and the quasi-concept of social cohesion
  21. 12 Putting the global in social justice?
  22. 13 ‘Go-social’? Inclusive growth and global social governance
  23. 14 For better or worse?
  24. 15 The struggle for social sustainability
  25. Index