Contents

pp iii-iii

Notes on contributors

pp iv-vi

One - Who would not be for society?

pp 1-12

Part 1 - Problems

pp 13-14

Two - The social question and the urgency of care

pp 15-26

Three - Better politics: Narratives of indignation and the possibility of a prosocial politics

pp 27-38

Four - Valuing and strengthening community

pp 39-52

Part 2 - Ideas

pp 53-54

Five - Confronting the roots of violent behaviour

pp 55-66

Six - In defence of the public city

pp 67-80

Seven - Artfully thinking the prosocial

pp 81-94

Eight - Re-visioning exclusion in local communities

pp 95-110

Nine - Putting ‘the social’ back into social policy

pp 111-124

Part 3 - Futures

pp 125-126

Ten - Progress through protest

pp 127-140

Eleven - Cities, crises and the future

pp 141-154

Twelve - Policy steps towards a better social future

pp 155-164

Thirteen - The (in)visibility of riches, urban life and exclusion

pp 165-178

Fourteen - The uses of catastrophism

pp 179-192

Conclusion

pp 193-194

Fifteen - Thinking prosocially

pp 195-200

Index

pp 201-206