1st Edition
Collective Action Tribes, Empires, Nations, and Protest Movements
1. Introduction, 2. The History and Dynamics of Collective Action: Crisis and Transformation, 3. Relationship: The Dynamics of Feeling, 4. Couples and Families, 5. Well-being and Social Value, 6. Civic Relationships and Civil Society, 7. Globalisation, 8. Conflict and Coercion, 9. A New Direction?, 10. The Revival of Nationalism, 11. The State, 12. Mobility and Migration, 13. Extremism, Political and Religious, 14. Nations and Sustainability, 15. A New Cold War?, 16. A New Basis for Citizenship, 17. Conclusions
Biography
Bill Jordan is Honorary Professor of Social Policy and Social Work at the University of Plymouth. He has written over 30 books on politics, economics, migration, social policy and social work. He worked for ten years in the UK public services and was also an activist in a union for claimants of welfare benefits, later acting as a consultant to several local authorities. He lectured in New Zealand, Australia and Canada. Since then, he has held visiting chairs in the Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, Slovakia, Hungary and the Czech Republic. His books have been translated into Portuguese, Hungarian and Japanese.
