Michael Brownstein, Alex Madva

Somebody Should Do Something

How Anyone Can Help Create Social Change

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A novel and scientific approach to creating transformative social change and the surprising ways that each of us can help make a real difference.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: MIT Press Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 165mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 566g
• ISBN-13: 9780262049788
• ISBN-10: 0262049783
• Artikelnr.: 72867079

Autorenporträt

Michael Brownstein is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at John Jay College and Professor of Philosophy at The Graduate Center, CUNY. He is the author of The Implicit Mind. Alex Madva is Professor of Philosophy, Director of the California Center for Ethics and Policy, and Co-Director of the Digital Humanities Consortium at Cal Poly Pomona. He is a coeditor of An Introduction to Implicit Bias and The Movement for Black Lives. Daniel Kelly is Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University. He is the author of Yuck! The Nature and Moral Significance of Disgust (MIT Press).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part One: The Problem of Either/Or Thinking About Social Change
Chapter One. You Do You: The Misdirected Individualist History of Climate
Activism
Chapter Two. Structural Injustice: Why Conversations about Racism Become
Conversations about Real Estate
Chapter Three. Change Against the Machine: Structural Change in the Public
Mind
Part Two: A Better Picture of Social Change
Chapter Four. Hidden Histories of Social Change: People Who Change Systems
that Change People
Chapter Five. Unlearning the Habit of Racism
Chapter Six. A Both/And Picture of People
Chapter Seven. We Are Each Other’s Situation
Chapter Eight. Cascades, Loops, and Tipping Points
Part Three: Putting It Into Practice
Chapter Nine. Social Movements and Structural Change
Chapter Ten. Lighting the Spark: Social Identity, Collective Action, and
Making a Difference
Chapter Eleven. Building the Blaze: Coalitional Politics for Interdependent
Individuals
Chapter Twelve. Facing the Fire: Understanding the Social World in a
Both/And Way
Chapter Thirteen. Keeping the Fire Going: The Gloriously Unsexy Work of
Implementing and Sustaining Change
Chapter Fourteen. Fighting From Where You Stand: Finding Your Role in
Social Change
Conclusion. Time Doesn’t Tell. We Tell Time
Acknowledgements
Bibliography