{"product_id":"the-routledge-handbook-of-social-richard-ballard-9780815365471","title":"The Routledge Handbook of Social Change","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Routledge Handbook of Social Change\u003c\/em\u003e provides an interdisciplinary primer to the intellectual approaches that hold the key to understanding the complexity of social change in the twenty-first century. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWe live in a world of intense social transformation, economic uncertainty, cultural innovations, and political turmoil. Established understandings of issues of well-being, development, democratisation, progress, and sustainability are being rethought both in academic scholarship and through everyday practice, organisation and mobilisation. The contributors to this handbook provide state-of-the-art introductions to current thinking on central conceptual and methodological approaches to the analysis of the transformations shaping economies, polities, and societies. Topics covered include social movements, NGOs, the changing nature of the state, environmental politics, human rights, anti-globalism, pandemic emergencies, post-Brexit politics, the politics of resilience, new technologies, and the proliferation of progressive and reactionary forms of identity politics. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDrawing on disciplines including anthropology, human geography, political sociology, and development studies, this is a comprehensive and authoritative introduction to researching key issues raised by the challenge of making sense of the twenty-first century futures.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Richard Ballard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0815365470\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780815365471\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/30\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 386\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.84lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.88d","brand":"Richard Ballard","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44070858129663,"sku":"9780815365471","price":270.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8a2a5ac0-b127-4cf9-a2cb-83a594fd6355.jpg?v=1685432742","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-routledge-handbook-of-social-richard-ballard-9780815365471","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}