Distress in the City by Linden West
Every day brings news about so-called Islamic State and its seduction of young people in the West. The radicalization of young Muslims causes alarm; even the desirability of multiculturalism is questioned in troubled cities where racism and Islamophobia are on the rise.This book is a case study of one distressed post-industrial city struggling with various discontents, drawn from those who live there. Their stories illuminate how racism, Islamophobia and Islamism take hold, rendering the city emblematic of wider problems across the world today.Through Linden West s holistic, psychosocial analysis, racism, Islamophobia and fundamentalism are understood by reference to growing inequality, mental illness and hopelessness, all within a context of fractured economies, malfunctioning democracies and the narrowing of education s purpose. But the author also describes the resources of hope in the city the experiments in democratic education and the working class struggle against Nazi fundamentalism, the concern for the other that inspire civic education in schools and communities today.Hazel Reid is Reader in Career Guidance and Counselling, and Director of the Centre for Career and Personal Development at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK.
Linden West is Professor and Director of Research Development in the Faculty of Education at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK, and Visiting Professor at Paris West University Nanterre, France.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781858566887 |
| ISBN 10 | 1858566886 |
| Title | Distress in the City |
| Author | Linden West |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Institute of Education Press |
| Year published | 2016-01-15 |
| Number of pages | 210 |
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