Richer Futures - Fashioning a New Politics

List of contents

Acronyms and Abbreviations

About the Contributors

Introduction by Ken Worpole

Part I People and Ideas

1 .The Anarchism of Colin Ward

David Goodway

Part II Growing Up Absurd

2. Education on a Human Scale

Fiona Carnie

3. Education for Participation: Art and the Built Environment

Eileen Adams

Part III A Roof Over Your Head

4. Looking Forward and Looking Back: State Provision and Self-help in Housing Policy

Alison Ravetz

Part IV Other Landscapes, Other Ways

5. A Peopled Landscape

Colin Ward

6. The Land is ours

George Monbiot

7. Poverty Power: Community Empowerment in Developing Countries

Nicola Baird

Part V Dig Where You Stand

8. Plots of Resistance: Food Culture and the British

Tim Lang

9. Local, Mutual, Voluntary and Simple: The Power of Local Exchange Trading Schemes

Jonathan Croall

Part VI Fashioning a New Politics

10. Path Not (Yet) Taken: The Politics of Sustainability

Ken Worpole

Index

About the author

Ken Worpole has written a number of books on urban and cultural policy, and a series of influential reports for Comedia, Demos and the Department of the Environment.

Summary

This collection of writings by figures involved in contemporary urban, cultural and social policy (and campaigns), looks forward to a new politics of self-management and environmentally aware and sustainable lifestyles.

Product details

• Authors: Ken Worpole
• Assisted by: Ken Worpole (Editor), Worpole Ken (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2009
• EAN: 9781853835384
• ISBN: 978-1-85383-538-4
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Security, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, The environment, Political science & theory, Social welfare & social services, Social issues & processes, Science / Environmental Science, Political science and theory, Social and ethical issues, Central / national / federal government policies, Central government policies, Social welfare, social policy and social services