The Struggle for Social Sustainability

Moral Conflicts in Global Social Policy

Deeming, Christopher

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Year: 2021
• ISBN:
  9781447356134
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Social Policy
• Index: Politics & International Relations

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.

Table of contents

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