Community resilience : equitable practices for an uncertain future / Alonzo L. Plough.
"The stories a society chooses to tell, and the people who get to tell their stories, become the filters through which we understand the world. In today's often contentious environment, tweets and sound bites that agitate and inflame readily become more influential than stories anchored in...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2021]
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| Series: | Culture of health.
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| Online Access: | Oxford Scholarship Online |
| Summary: | "The stories a society chooses to tell, and the people who get to tell their stories, become the filters through which we understand the world. In today's often contentious environment, tweets and sound bites that agitate and inflame readily become more influential than stories anchored in data and designed to find common ground. When public discourse is distorted, social institutions lose their capacity to foster well-being. Building policy on information that has been cherry-picked to advance a single perspective does not serve the broader social good, but instead leads people to conclude that their perspectives are not valued or even legitimate. When this happens, they can lose faith in our social and economic institutions"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (252 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0197559387 0197559409 0197559417 9780197559383 9780197559406 9780197559413 |