Precariousness, Community and Participation

ISBN-13: 9780367589691 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 162 str.

Matthew Johnson

Opis

This issue presents an interdisciplinary account of the challenges faced by communities at a time in which neoliberalism seems unchecked and uncheckable by the rise of nationalist populism. The chapters were originally published in a special issue of Global Discourse.

Spis treści

Introduction: precariousness, community and participation  1. The role of coal-mining towns in social theory: past, present and future  2. The isolated mass and contemporary social theory  3. Changing precarities in the Irish housing system: supplier-generated changes in security of tenure for domiciled households  4. Understanding housing precarity: more than access to a shelter, housing is essential for a decent life  5. Precarious living in liminal spaces: neglect of the Gypsy–Traveller site  6. Gypsy-Traveller sites in the UK: power, history, informality – a response to Richardson  7. Traveller precarity, public apathy, public service inaction, a reply to Jo Richardson’s article from a community work perspective  8. Universities as key responders to education inequality  9. An ongoing challenge and a chance to diversify university outreach to tackle inequality: a response to O’Sullivan, O’Tuama and Kenny  10. A reply to O’Sullivan, O’Tuama and Kenny   11. Affective collaboration in the Westfjords of Iceland  12. Protean possibilities: attending to affect in collaborative research – a reply to Valdimar Halldórsson   13. Cooperation in adversity: an evolutionary approach  14. Cooperation in adversity: a political theorist’s response

O autorze

Matthew Johnson is Lecturer in Politics at Lancaster University, UK. His research examines issues such as Englishness and the relationship between culture, policy and wellbeing. He led a participatory project entitled ‘A Cross-Cultural Working Group on "Good Culture" and Precariousness’, which involved exchanges between people from Ashington and Aboriginal Australian communities.