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I am extremely indebted to John Clarke, Wendy Hollway and Janet Newman for their invaluable encouragement, discussions and comments on drafts of the book. My thanks go to Ruth Lister for talks and walks over the Yorkshire Dales and, for their interest, ideas and conversations, to Rianne Mahon, Greg Marston, Ann Orloff, Coretta Phillips, Jane Pillinger, Sasha Roseneil, Tom Shakespeare, Paul Stubbs and the late Bob Deacon. I am very grateful to Mike Farren for taming the bibliography. For care, love and support I thank Rowena Beaty, Jean Carabine, Emilyn Claid, Rowan Deacon, Joe Deacon, Brian and Maureen Lawrence, Gillean Paterson, and the Wharfedale Poets. Special thanks go to Yvette Huddleston and Mandy Sutter for Friday night drinks throughout the pandemic in gardens and parkland, come rain or shine, in person or in spirit.

A source of intellectual stimulation was my association as advisor with Ito Peng’s international project Gender, Migration and the World of Care and Jenny Phillimore’s cross-national Welfare Bricolage project. I thank the Compass zoom discussion groups for rich debate on political strategies and activism.

An earlier version of chapter 3 was published in The Struggle for Social Sustainability, edited by Chris Deeming (Policy Press, 2021).

Finally my grateful thanks go to Jonathan Skerrett and Karina Jákupsdóttir at Polity Press for their patience and encouragement.

I dedicate this book to my grandchildren Zephyr, Bodhi, Nova, Delaney and Victor in the hope that the earth they inherit and change will be more flourishing, just and humane.