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Social Policy on the Cusp - Values, Institutions and Change (Hardcover)
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Social Policy on the Cusp - Values, Institutions and Change (Hardcover)
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Two eminent Deans Emeritus in two different continents unravel
contemporary social and public policy issues that are seldom
discussed in traditional textbooks. In a new Dickensian era,
uplifting people's lives amidst faltering social institutions and
massive cultural meltdowns, policy discourse is a crucial
obligation; it's a discipline that entails pragmatic vision and
prescient planning. Social Policy on the Cusp is a modest attempt
to unravel the nexus of nihilism that thwarts even
civilization-nations' efforts to promote inclusive diversity. Brij
Mohan and Guy Backman have analyzed certain aspects and issues in
American, European and Asian contexts that unravel
intersectionality of problems, people, and policies. Brij Mohan, a
policy gadfly, examines the human condition using Nietzschean,
Foucautean and Gandhian thoughts that expose the hidden malaise of
unhappiness, angst and anger in a globalized world. Social policy
as a euphemism, he contends, sustains chaos and resentment without
transforming oppressive systems. His five chapters offer
penetrating insights into the problems that a therapeutic culture
breeds. With an uncanny sagacity, he examines coloniality and
post-colonialism as a womb that spells paroxysms of despair. Guy
BAckman has contributed five chapters, which are based on his
research and findings on poverty and inequalities that plague the
world today. The vision of a better, cohesive world has guided the
design of the empirically oriented chapters in Part Two. Social
policy, through the use of advanced technology and algorithmic
solutions, promotes transformative policy actions based on
preferred values and goals rooted in cultural conditions. In a new
political economy, it could become the instructions we write to
ourselves to navigate a society that is smarter, safer, and more
just. Two invited contributions by Stan Weeber, USA and Eleni
Makri, Greece, further narrate the tales of "smart city" and
"workplace discrimination" in light of the failed public policies
in a new brave world.
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