Unsustainable Inequalities

Unsustainable Inequalities
Author: Lucas Chancel
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2020-10-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0674250656

A Financial Times Best Book of the Year A hardheaded book that confronts and outlines possible solutions to a seemingly intractable problem: that helping the poor often hurts the environment, and vice versa. Can we fight poverty and inequality while protecting the environment? The challenges are obvious. To rise out of poverty is to consume more resources, almost by definition. And many measures to combat pollution lead to job losses and higher prices that mainly hurt the poor. In Unsustainable Inequalities, economist Lucas Chancel confronts these difficulties head-on, arguing that the goals of social justice and a greener world can be compatible, but that progress requires substantial changes in public policy. Chancel begins by reviewing the problems. Human actions have put the natural world under unprecedented pressure. The poor are least to blame but suffer the most—forced to live with pollutants that the polluters themselves pay to avoid. But Chancel shows that policy pioneers worldwide are charting a way forward. Building on their success, governments and other large-scale organizations must start by doing much more simply to measure and map environmental inequalities. We need to break down the walls between traditional social policy and environmental protection—making sure, for example, that the poor benefit most from carbon taxes. And we need much better coordination between the center, where policies are set, and local authorities on the front lines of deprivation and contamination. A rare work that combines the quantitative skills of an economist with the argumentative rigor of a philosopher, Unsustainable Inequalities shows that there is still hope for solving even seemingly intractable social problems.

Between Fault Lines and Front Lines

Between Fault Lines and Front Lines
Author: Katja Hujo
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2022-06-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1350229040

Inequality is one of today's greatest challenges, obstructing poverty reduction and sustainable development. As the power of elites grows and societal gaps widen, institutions representing the public good and universal values are increasingly disempowered or co-opted, and visions of social justice and equity side-lined. This book explores the roles of elites and institutions of power in the deepening of social and economic cleavages across the globe, by asking how inequalities have reshaped structures from the local to the transnational level, and what consequences they have wrought. In addition, the contributors present examples of peaceful processes of policy change that have made societies greener and more socially just, levelled out social stratification, and devolved power and resources from elites to non-elites, or towards marginalized or discriminated groups. Based on cutting-edge empirical research, the chapters in this volume bring together conceptual thinking and a number of case studies from the Global North and South, combining different levels of analysis and a range of qualitative research methods to present solutions for closing the inequality gap.

UNRISD Flagship Report 2022

UNRISD Flagship Report 2022
Author: United Nations Research Institute for Social Development
Publisher: United Nations Publications
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2023-07-05
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9290851333

Solidarity and Organization

Solidarity and Organization
Author: Philippe Eynaud
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2023-04-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3031275683

Solidarity is an ‘unthought’ in the fields of organizational theory and management sciences. However, it is an increasingly important feature in the management of organizations. The contemporary world suffers from a double unsustainability: the abusive exploitation of natural resources endangers the balance of the climate and biodiversity, while growing inequalities condemn our ability to maintain a balanced society. These unsustainabilities are mutually reinforcing and call for the affirmation of a double solidarity, which unites humans among themselves, and links humans and nonhumans. Such an effort cannot be decreed. It must be organized. Based on numerous grassroots initiatives and citizens’ experimentations that are being invented every day around the world and on a historical and anthropological approach, this book explores different ways of combining solidarity and organization. Solidarity-based management, governance of the commons, and Buen Vivir approaches are some of the perspectives analyzed in the context of a North-South dialogue in order to formulate the conceptual framework and practical steps of a social and environmental transition. It offers both theoretical background and living examples to students, professors and researchers to better understand and better teach new avenues for management.

Affluence and Freedom

Affluence and Freedom
Author: Pierre Charbonnier
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2021-06-22
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1509543732

In this pathbreaking book, Pierre Charbonnier opens up a new intellectual terrain: an environmental history of political ideas. His aim is not to locate the seeds of ecological thought in the history of political ideas as others have done, but rather to show that all political ideas, whether or not they endorse ecological ideals, are informed by a certain conception of our relationship to the Earth and to our environment. The fundamental political categories of modernity were founded on the idea that we could improve on nature, that we could exert a decisive victory over its excesses and claim unlimited access to earthly resources. In this way, modern thinkers imagined a political society of free individuals, equal and prosperous, alongside the development of industry geared towards progress and liberated from the Earth’s shackles. Yet this pact between democracy and growth has now been called into question by climate change and the environmental crisis. It is therefore our duty today to rethink political emancipation, bearing in mind that this can no longer draw on the prospect of infinite growth promised by industrial capitalism. Ecology must draw on the power harnessed by nineteenth-century socialism to respond to the massive impact of industrialization, but it must also rethink the imperative to offer protection to society by taking account of the solidarity of social groups and their conditions in a world transformed by climate change. This timely and original work of social and political theory will be of interest to a wide readership in politics, sociology, environmental studies and the social sciences and humanities generally.

The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State

The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State
Author: Daniel Béland
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 936
Release: 2021-10-27
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0192563467

This is the comprehensively-revised second edition of a volume that was welcomed at its first appearance as 'the most authoritative survey and critique of the welfare state yet published'. Its fifty-one chapters have been written by acknowledged experts in the field from across Europe, Australia, and North America. Some chapters are brand new; all have been systematically revised, and they are right up to date. The first seven sections of the book cover the themes of Ethics, History, Approaches, Inputs and Actors, Policies, Policy Outcomes, and Worlds of Welfare. A final chapter is devoted to the future of welfare and well-being under the imperatives of climate change. Every chapter is written in a way that is both comprehensive and succinct, introducing the novice reader to the essentials of what is going on while providing new insights for the more experienced researcher. Wherever appropriate, the handbook brings the very latest empirical evidence to bear. It is a book that is thoroughly comparative in every way. The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State, second edition, is a comprehensible and comprehensive survey of everything that it is important to know about the welfare state in these troubled times. It is an indispensable source for everyone who wants to know what is really going on now, and what is likely to happen next.

After Lockdown

After Lockdown
Author: Bruno Latour
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2021-09-09
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1509550038

After the harrowing experience of the pandemic and lockdown, both states and individuals have been searching for ways to exit the crisis, many hoping to return as soon as possible to ‘the world as it was before the pandemic’. But there is another way to learn the lessons of this ordeal: as inhabitants of the earth, we may not be able to exit lockdown so easily after all, since the global health crisis is embedded in another larger and more serious crisis – that brought about by the New Climate Regime. Learning to live in lockdown might be an opportunity to be seized: a dress-rehearsal for the climate mutation, an opportunity to understand at last where we – inhabitants of the earth – live, what kind of place ‘earth’ is and how we will be able to orient ourselves and exist in this world in the years to come. We might finally be able to explore the land in which we live, together with all other living beings, begin to understand the true nature of the climate mutation we are living through and discover what kind of freedom is possible – a freedom differently situated and differently understood. In this sequel to his bestselling book Down to Earth, Bruno Latour provides a compass for this necessary re-orientation of our lives, outlining the metaphysics of confinement and deconfinement with which we will all be obliged to come to terms by the strange times in which we are living.

Land Sickness

Land Sickness
Author: Nikolaj Schultz
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 70
Release: 2023-02-27
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1509556141

As a heatwave hits Paris, the author's entire existence is disrupted and disoriented by the effects of climate change. All his normal reference points are destroyed. To escape the heat and his growing anxieties, he flees to the small Mediterranean island of Porquerolles. But even in this idyllic setting, can he escape the harsh realities of the Anthropocene? Written as a fictionalized travelogue based on the author's own experiences, this inquiry into the issues raised by the climate crisis will be of interest to everyone concerned about the increasingly dire situation in which we find ourselves on our climate-damaged planet.

New Normal Beyond The Pandemic: Rethinking Alienation From Local To Global / Pandemiyle Birlikte Yerelden Küresele Yabancılaşmayı Yeniden Düşünmek

New Normal Beyond The Pandemic: Rethinking Alienation From Local To Global / Pandemiyle Birlikte Yerelden Küresele Yabancılaşmayı Yeniden Düşünmek
Author: Zeynep Banu Dalaman
Publisher: Transnational Press London
Total Pages: 403
Release: 2021-11-16
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1801350868

The Covid-19 crisis, with all the horrors it has caused, has offered humanity an opportunity to reflect on itself and evaluate its point, even if it is delayed. In a very short time, we found ourselves worried about whether we could reach the objects we needed, whether we would lose our jobs or keep our freedom. Alienation is described as withdrawing or separation of a person or a person's affections from an object or position of former attachment: alienation viewed as a sense of detachment from the values of one's society, family, and even from one's own feelings from the values of one's society and family (S. L. Halleck). Different forms of alienation, such as cultural alienation, professional alienation, and religious alienation, are among the current issues. It is obvious that we need to define different forms of alienation along with the pandemic. I believe this book will not be the first nor the last research book published on the Covid-19 pandemic. Our aim is to leave a resource on the subject for the next generation of researchers. I would like to thank everyone who contributed to the book and hope it will be beneficial for the academic community. Covid-19 krizi yaşattığı tüm dehşetle birlikte insanlığın kendi üzerinde düşünmek, gelmiş bulunduğu noktayı değerlendirmek için de, gecikmeli olsa bile bir imkan sunmuştur. Kendimizi çok kısa bir süre içerisinde ihtiyacımız olan nesnelere ulaşıp ulaşamayacağımız, işimizi kaybedip kaybetmeyeceğimiz ya da özgürlüklerimizi elimizde tutup tutamayacağımız hakkında kaygılanır bulduk. Kelime anlamı itibarı ile yabancılaşma bir şeyin veya kimsenin başka bir şeyden veya kimseden uzaklaşması, başka bir şeyle veya kimseyle olan fonksiyonel veya anlamsal paylaşımının sona ermesi durumunu ifade etmektedir (S.L.Halleck). Kültürel yabancılaşma, mesleki yabancılaşma, dinsel yabancılaşma gibi farklı yabancılaşma biçimleri de günümüzün aktüel konularındandır. Pandemi ile birlikte farklı yabancılaşmaları da tanımlamamız gerektiği aşikârdır. Bu kitabın amacı, yeni sürecin yarattığı yabancılaşmayla birlikte, melezleşme sürecini yeniden inşa etmek, küresel ve yerel arasındaki kültürel karşılaşmalara alternatif yaklaşımları anlamaya katkı sunmaktır. CONTENTS PREFACE / SUNUŞ COVID-19: The Great Unequalizer - Göran Therborn PART 1. IMPACTS OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC ON SOCIAL POLICIES AND RESEARCHES /Covid-19 Pandemisinin Sosyal Politikalara ve Araştırmalara Etkileri Protective Face Mask-wearing Behaviour Patterns in Turkey and Across the Globe in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic / COVID-19 Pandemisi Bağlamında Türkiye'de ve Dünya Genelinde Koruyucu Yüz Maskesi Kullanma Davranış Kalıpları - Nilufer Narlı, and Solveig Beyza Narlı Evenstad Mexico's Health System in the Face of Neo-liberalism, Its Commodification and Covid-19 / Neoliberalizm Karşısında Meksika'nın Sağlık Sistemi Metalaşması ve Covid-19 - Rodolfo García Zamora, Selene Gaspar Olvera, Dellanira Ruíz de Chávez Ramírez, Cristina Almeida Perales, and Pascual García Zamora Pending Agenda for Post-Pandemic Social Protection - An Integral Systematic Interdisciplinary Look From the Law of Emergency / Post-Pandemi Dönemi Sosyal Koruma için Bekleyen Gündem - Olağanüstü Hal Kanunu Üzerinden Bütünleyici Sistemli Disiplinlerarası Bir Bakış - Jorge Isaac Torres Manrique Riskler ve Belirsizlikler Kıskacında Pandemide Araştırmacı Olmak: Otoetnografik Bir Çalışma / Being a Researcher in a Pandemic in the Grip of Risks and Uncertainties: An Autoethnographic Study - Cemre Erciyes, Aleyna Yıldırım, and Meryem Erol Aggrievement and Identity during a Pandemic Due to Conflicts, Policy Decisions and the Media / Çatışmalar, Politika Kararları ve Medya Nedeniyle Salgın Sırasında Mağduriyet ve Kimlik - William L. Rosenberg PART 2. IMPACTS OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC ON GLOBAL POLITICS / Covid-19 Pandemisinin Küresel Politikaya Etkileri Covıd-19 Pandemisi Sırasında Yakın Çevrede Türkiye’nin Güvenliğiyle İlgili Gelişmeler / Developments related to Turkey's Security nearby of its Region during the Covid-19 Pandemic - Celalettin Yavuz Covid-19 Salgınında Türkiye’deki Hava Yolcu Trafiğinin Durumu: Sosyo-Ekonomik Açıdan Bir Değerlendirme / The Situation of Air Passenger Traffic in Turkey in the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Socio-Economic Evaluation - Gülaçtı Şen and Erhan Bütün Yeni Düşman Pandemiden Sonra Uluslararası Sistem / The International System After the New Enemy Pandemic - Ali Poyraz Gürson and Can Telemeci Küresel Sistem ve Korona Virüs Salgını: Yerelleşen Küreselleşme / Global System and Corona Virus Outbreak: Localized Globalization - Suat Dönmez A Crisis Like No Other: Will Covid-19 Change Capitalism? / Diğerlerine Benzemeyen Bir Kriz: Covid-19 Kapitalizmi Değiştirecek mi? - Gökhan Ak Kamu Diplomasisi Olarak Türkiye’nin Covid-19 Yardımları / Covid-19 Aid and Public Turkish Public Diplomacy - Abdulmennan Baycar PART 3. THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL IMPACT OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC ON WOMEN / COVID-19 Pandemisinin Kadınlar Üzerindeki Ekonomik ve Sosyal Etkisi Pandemide Kadınların Durumu ve Artan Ev içi Şiddet / Women in Pandemic and Increasing Domestic Violence - Aslıhan Ardıç Çobaner and Canan Dural Tasouji Impact of Covid-19 on Female Labour Force in Turkey / Covid-19'un Türkiye'de Kadin İşgücü Üzerindeki Etkisi - Zeynep Banu Dalaman Covid-19 Pandemisinde Uzaktan Çalışma, 7/24 Mesai ve Gözetim: Sıradan Bir Yabancılaşmanın “Olağan” Anatomisi / Teleworking, 24/7 Working and Surveillance in the Covid-19 Pandemic: The Extra “ordinary” Anatomy of an Ordinary Alienation - Hasan Saf PART 4. IMPACT OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC ON THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING SYSTEM / Covid-19 Pandemisinin Eğitim ve Öğretim Sistemine Etkileri School and Lockdown in Italy – Pandemic and Education / İtalya'da Okul ve Kilitlenme – Pandemi ve Eğitim - Anna Di Giusto Eğitimde Hizmet Kalitesinin Ölçüm Metotları ve Covid-19 Süreci / Measurement Methods of Service Quality in Education and the Covid-19 Pandemic - Bora Gündüzyeli Education in 'New Normal': Problems and Prospects of Tertiary Level Students in Bangladesh / Eğitimde ‘Yeni Normal’: Bangladeşte Meslek Eğitimindeki Öğrencilerin Problemleri ve Geleceği - Manzuma Ahsan Using Classroom Pedagogy to Promote Mental Health in Secondary School Setting / Ortaokul Ortamında Ruh Sağlığını Geliştirmek için Sınıf Pedagojisini Kullanmak - Madhuvanti Mukherjee, Priyanka Ghosh, and Indrani Banerjee PART 5. REFLECTIONS OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC ON MARKETING COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA / Covid-19 Pandemisinin Pazarlama İletişimi ve Medyaya Yansımaları Pandemi Sürecinde Marka İletişimini Analiz Etmek: KİĞILI / Analyzing Brand Communication in the Pandemic Process: KİĞILI - Arzu Kızbaz and Bahşende Çoban Pandemi Sürecinde Sürdürülebilir Pazarlama: United Colors of Benetton Marka İncelemesi / Sustainable Marketing During the Pandemic: United Colors of Benetton Brand Review - Bahşende Çoban and Arzu Kızbaz Covid-19 Salgınını İklim Krizi İle Birlikte Düşünmek: Türkiye’de İklim Haberleri Üzerine Bir Değerlendirme / Thinking Climate Crisis with The Covid-19 Pandemic: Reflecting on Climate News in Turkey - Aslıhan Ardıç Çobaner PART 6. REFLECTIONS OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC ON CINEMA AND LITERATURE / Covid-19 Pandemisinin Sinema ve Edebiyata Yansımaları Ütopik Kurgudan Distopik Gerçekliğe: Pandemi Yönetimi Perspektifinde Güney Kore ve Japon Sineması / From Utopic Fiction to Dystopic Reality: South Korean and Japanese Cinema in the Pandemic Administration Perspective - Sevil Zengin and Özlem Bapbacı Mapping Alienation, Intimacy and Loneliness onto Cinematic Existence / Yabancılaşma, Mahrem ve Yanlızlığı Sinematik Eksende Anlamak - Sweta Kushwaha Eski İspanyol Nezlesinin Puslu Perdesinde Yeni Dünya Düzeni, Yeni Hayat ve Yeni Edebiyatın Yüz Yıllık “Yeni Normal” İzleri / The Centenarian “New Normal” Traces of New World Order, New Life and New Literature at the Hazy Curtain of the Old Spanish Flu - Nuri Sağlam

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