Julian Manley
Social Value, Co-operation and Compassion
Professor Julian Manley is a researcher based at the University of Central Lancashire, Preston, where he is Co-Director of the Centre for Citizenship and Community. His research encompasses psychosocial approaches to co-operation and Community Wealth Building including active participation in the development of the Preston Model. He is the founder and was the first Chair of the Preston Co-operative Development Network and founder member and Director of the Preston Co-operative Education Centre. He is one of the editors of The Preston Model and Community Wealth Building (Routledge 2021) and the forthcoming Co-operation and Co-operatives in 21st Century Europe (BUP 2023).
The climate emergency is an all-encompassing threat to human existence which forces humanity to face up to not only the immediate effects of climate change but to the very systems that govern our social, economic and environmental relationships. Community Wealth Building, with its emphasis on co-operation, social value and community, may provide clues to a future design that is neither centred on capitalism nor state socialism. This talk discusses how the essential nature of capitalism based on belief in the efficacy of competition and the ultimate goal of economic profit-making is flawed and unsustainable on a finite planet and how co-operation and compassion are keys to future developments
