Making space for justice : social movements, collective imagination, and political hope / Michele Moody-Adams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moody-Adams, Michele M., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social movements.

Social justice.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 345 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Columbia University Press, [2022]

Summary:

Michele Moody-Adams explores what social movements have shown about the nature of justice and what it takes to create space for justice in the world. She argues that these insights are critical to bridging the gap between discerning theory and effective practice-and should be transformative for political thought as well as for political activism.-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

Part I: Understanding social movements

1. What is a social movement?

2. Social movements and the task of democracy

3. Social Movements and the Moral Life

Part II: Social movements and the power of collective imagination

4. Taking imagination seriously

5. Language matters

6. Justice and the narrative imagination

Part III: Social movements and political hope

7. The empire of affect and the challenge of collective hope

8. Hope and history

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-231-55406-0

9780231554060 (electronic book)

OCLC:

1328133090