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      The Struggle for Social Sustainability

      Moral Conflicts in Global Social Policy

      Edited by

      Christopher Deeming

      First published in Great Britain in 2021 by

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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