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Detailed contents

1Introduction

Why is need important?

Outline of the book

Conclusion/Summary

Challenging questions

Part One: Understandings and concepts

2The needs of humanity

Human history

Humanisms

Species characteristics

Conclusion/Summary

Challenging questions

3The thin and the thick of need and needing

The distinction between ‘thin’ and ‘thick’

Thin needs and hedonic notions of well-being

Thick needs and eudaimonic notions of well-being

Dignity and caring

Conclusion/Summary

Challenging questions

4Needs in theory

Classic human individualist theories

Social policy perspectives

Critical perspectives

Conclusion/Summary

Challenging questions

5Needs in practice

Customs and consumption

Social policy perspectives

Insurgent claims making

Conclusion/Summary

Challenging questions

6Human need and social policy

A taxonomy of needs-based approaches

Human needs and welfare ‘regimes’

Conclusion/Summary

Challenging questions

Part Two: Implications and debates

7Unmet needs and social disadvantage

Poverty and inequality: the distribution and accumulation of material resources

Exclusion and misrecognition: the construction and demarcation of social divisions

Dehumanisation: processes of alienation, oppression and exploitation

Conclusion/Summary

Challenging questions

8Articulating needs as rights

Rights-based approaches

Reconceptualising social citizenship

Justice or humanity?

Conclusion/Summary

Challenging questions

9The politics of human need

Reprise

A different politics of demand

A needs-first ethic

Conclusion/Summary

Challenging questions