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The antidote : how people-powered movements can renew politics, policy and practice / Peter Beresford ; foreword by Ruth Lister.
De Gruyter Bristol University Press/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2025 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Beresford, Peter, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political participation.
- Social movements.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 293 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol : Policy Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- <i>The Antidote</i> explores what we can learn from the equalisation of personal roles and relationships to make possible more participatory and liberatory policy and politics. It sets out the barriers we face and offers a route map to bring an end to the destructive effects of unfettered neoliberal ideology, economics, policy and politics.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Author Bio
- The Antidote: How People-Powered Movements Can Renew Politics, Policy and Practice
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- List of photographs
- About the author
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Introduction
- The paradox of our times
- The neoliberal threat
- The democratic alternative
- The structure of the book
- Part I Neoliberalism’s destructive agenda
- 1 Policing and a very neoliberal murder
- A defining femicide
- What explains this
- Police, state and politics
- Political and ideological contexts
- Liberal equals illiberal
- Trends in inequality and poverty
- Impoverishing politics
- Anti-personal ideology
- Failed claims
- The redistributive reality of neoliberalism
- 2 Ideological damage –. from the personal to the global
- Introduction Generated by AI.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 12 Sep 2025).
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-4473-7648-X
- 1-4473-7546-7
- OCLC:
- 1519989156
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