The Struggle for Social Sustainability
Moral Conflicts in Global Social Policy
Edited by
Christopher Deeming
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Contents
List of boxes, figures and tables
List of abbreviations
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
Preface
1The ‘social’ in the age of sustainability
Christopher Deeming
2‘No such thing as society’? Neoliberalism and the social
John Clarke
3The social question: reconciling social and economic imperatives in policy
Bradley W. Bateman
4Disputing the economization and the de-politicization of ‘social’ investment in global social policy
Jean-Michel Bonvin and Francesco Laruffa
5The social dimension of sustainable development at the UN: from Brundtland to the SDGs
Iris Borowy
6Paradigm lost? Blocking the path to ecosocial welfare and post-productivism
Tony Fitzpatrick
7World population prospects at the UN: our numbers are not our problem?
Danny Dorling
8Ageing sustainably
Alan Walker
9The political challenges to governing global migration and social welfare
Edward A. Koning
10Bringing in ‘the social’: an intersectional analysis of global crises and welfare
Fiona Williams
11Global social policy and the quasi-concept of social cohesion
Jane Jenson
12Putting the global in social justice?
Gary Craig
13‘Go-social’? Inclusive growth and global social governance
Christopher Deeming
14For better or worse?
Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett
15The struggle for social sustainability
Christopher Deeming
Index
List of boxes, figures and tables
Boxes
1.1Global goals: from the MDGs to the SDGs
1.2The 30 rights and freedoms set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)
1.3Core international human rights instruments
7.1The United Nations Population Division
10.1What is intersectionality?
15.1Strategies for sustaining work and welfare in the 21st century
15.2The Social Protection Floor (SPF) recommendation
15.3Commission on Social Determinants of Health: recommendations
15.4Commission on Social Determinants of Health: action
15.5Martha Nussbaum on central human functional capabilities
15.6Guy Standing’s proposals for a Precariat Charter
15.7Marc Fleurbaey and colleagues with five ideas that can change your life, and the world
15.8The Equality Trust on ten things you can do to tackle inequality
15.9High-impact actions to reduce annual personal emissions
15.10The Framework for Strategic Sustainable Development
Figures
6.1Ecosocial policy: three levels of classification
7.1Number of people aged 18 in the world, actual to 2020 and UN central predictions thereafter
7.2Annual change in the number of people aged 18 in the world, actual to 2020 then predicted
7.3Annual change-in-change in the