In addition to considering the role of social theory in the imagination of alternative futures, this volume reflects on how social theory may assist us in under

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This book highlights the importance of employing imaginative sensibilities to thinking and action in social work and social policy practice. Exploring the quest

This book examines the utopian dimension of contemporary social and political thought. Arguing for a utopian optic for the human sciences, el-Ojeili claims that

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