Product Description: Politics is a field of mighty passions fueled by the identities of nation, religion, culture, gender, and class. Yet the study of politics is dominated by narrowly rationalist perspectives that see emotions as fleeting reactions and consider citizens primarily in terms of their individual interests...read more

Product Description: Social development work takes place in the grey area between government and the voluntary and community sectors. This book, written by three well-known educators and researchers in the social policy and development field, explores the ways in which front-line professionals working with communities identify and address the dilemmas inherent in the current policy context...read more

Product Description: Emotion, Politics and Society critically addresses the intersection between power, politics and the emotions. This is a very timely project given the centrality of mass emotions such as fear and humiliation on the world stage today...read more

Product Description: Social policy and political theory are based upon rationalist models of the human subject. Drawing particularly upon contemporary Kleinian and feminist political theory, the author explores the powerful role that emotions such as love, hate, and fear play in the development of the human subject...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: 'Community' is a much used yet little understood term. Through a set of detailed case studies of communities in action, this book examines the sources of community activism, the ways in which communities define themselves, and are defined by outsiders, and the nature of the interface between communities and public agencies via partnerships...read more

Product Description: This work describes a study which investigated how diversity works in the case of community care. Both private and voluntary organizations are examined, and the way in which the research was undertaken is described in detail. Future models of care are also covered.