The Antidote

How People-Powered Movements Can Renew Politics, Policy and Practice
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-4473-7544-9
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 450 g

The gap between personal and formal politics has been widening globally and locally. As personal politics have become more inclusive and egalitarian inspired by new social movements, neoliberal ideologies have undermined democracy, increasing isolation, inequality, poverty, disease and environmental threat. Yet this paradox may also offer a path to transformation.

Using international evidence and examples, The Antidote explores what we can learn from the equalisation of personal roles and relationships that’s been taking place, to help us reconnect with ourselves and each other and 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Beresford, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Interessengruppen, Lobbyismus und Protestbewegungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Part One: Neoliberalism’s Destructive Agenda

1. Policing and a Very Neoliberal Murder

2. Ideological Damage: From the Personal to the Global

3. Fake News Politics

4. The Politics of Disconnection

5. Divide and Rule

6. Alienated Even from Ourselves

7. Betraying Intimacy

Part Two: New Routes for a Different Politics

8. Changing Our Approach to Making Change

9. Starting with Our Own Lives

10. What the New Social Movements Can Tell Us

11. A New Watchword: ‘Only Connect’ on Equal Terms

Part Three: Building a Politics of Inclusive Connection

12. What’s Wrong with the New Communication?

13. Towards Truly Inclusive Communication

14. Learning from What We Know

15. Education for Empowerment and Change

16. Working Together: Building Alliances, Including Everyone

17. Rethinking Solidarity: Extending Connection

18. Conclusion and Next Steps

Über Autor(innen)

Beresford, Peter
Peter Beresford OBE is Visiting Professor at the University of East Anglia and Co-Chair of Shaping Our Lives, the user led organisation and network as a long term user of mental health services. He has a longstanding track record of work in the field of participation and citizen involvement as academic, service user, researcher, educator and activist.

Peter Beresford OBE is Visiting Professor at the University of East Anglia and Co-Chair of Shaping Our Lives, the national disabled people’s organisation. He has long term lived experience of welfare benefits and mental health services, and is also Emeritus Professor at Brunel University London and the University of Essex, and Honorary Professor at Edge Hill University.

He is a long-standing advocate of participation and empowerment as an activist, educator, researcher and writer. He has published over 30 books, and many chapters and journal articles, writing regularly for The Guardian and other mainstream and online media.