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This text explores the way we perceive risk and integrate change into our lives - insisting that these are the essential forces driving policy development today.
Contents. Preface. About the contributors. Introduction - Jane Franklin. Socialists and equality - Caroline Daniel. Back to socialist basics - G.A. Cohen. Forward to basics - Bernard Williams. What do egalitarians want? - Stuart White. What kind of equality should the le…
Heaphy and Franklin examine the merits of the 'late modernity' thesis against those of the proponents of 'post-modernity'. They show the wide scoop of influence of 'postmodern' thought and put these theories in context by looking at how they play out against key features of cont…
Setting out both new empirical material and new conceptual terrain, this book draws on approaches from human geography, social policy, and feminist and political theory to explore issues of home and care in times of crisis.
Home and care are central aspects of everyday, personal lives, yet they are also shaped by political and economic change. Within a context of austerity, economic restructuring, worsening inequality and resource rationing, policy around and experience of these key areas is shifti…