Democracy Works: Joining Theory and Action to Foster Global ChangeThroughout the world, from the United States to Tanzania, Chechnya, and Sri Lanka, people increasingly work together and take actions to improve their lives, end inequality, and change global society. Action groups and movements see dialogue and learning as important ways to extend democracy and, with their inclusiveness, remake society. By putting strategy with theory, local groups and movements are able to begin making changes in civil society and institutions that allow people to begin living in new ways. Written for activists, people, and students interested in change, this book takes readers on a journey of discovery as it shows how various groups have brought theory and action together to make urban, rural, and transnational change. The case studies and explanatory articles reveal how feminist, antiracist, ecological, and peace movements reinforce each other to initiate and achieve well-placed and enduring change. |
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Second, action groups are creating society anew by introducing and nurturing new social processes that build ... As they unravel the old and create the new, action groups shape the historical transition by making democracy work.
Second, action groups are creating society anew by introducing and nurturing new social processes that build ... As they unravel the old and create the new, action groups shape the historical transition by making democracy work.
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... changed them into a form that produced for capitalism, and destroyed and/or subordinated diverse cultures, reducing cultural diversity at the same time institutions created new types of diversity through new, market-centered, ...
... changed them into a form that produced for capitalism, and destroyed and/or subordinated diverse cultures, reducing cultural diversity at the same time institutions created new types of diversity through new, market-centered, ...
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The organizational structure of Democracy Works suggests that the forces of renewal and rebirth both create new social foundations. Furthermore, both statedirected actions and anticolonial actions can challenge institutional agents of ...
The organizational structure of Democracy Works suggests that the forces of renewal and rebirth both create new social foundations. Furthermore, both statedirected actions and anticolonial actions can challenge institutional agents of ...
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All of the volume's authors urge people to remember that they have knowledge and skills that can help them end hunger, war, and environmental degradation and that they can create new relations that humanize rather than dehumanize.
All of the volume's authors urge people to remember that they have knowledge and skills that can help them end hunger, war, and environmental degradation and that they can create new relations that humanize rather than dehumanize.
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As alternative social relations are created, often in civil societal spaces that may be in rural or urban areas, these new relationships help shape the historical transition and may lead to sustained changes that last from 20 to 50 or ...
As alternative social relations are created, often in civil societal spaces that may be in rural or urban areas, these new relationships help shape the historical transition and may lead to sustained changes that last from 20 to 50 or ...
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Part II Changing the Intersecting Global Institutions of Firm Market State Household Race Class GenderSexualityAge and Global SouthNorth | 73 |
Part III Rebuilding Civil Society Reclaiming the Civil Commons | 143 |
Part IV Changing Intersecting Institutions Reinventing Society | 247 |
Index | 260 |
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| Վերնագիր | Democracy Works: Joining Theory and Action to Foster Global Change |
| Authors | Torry D. Dickinson, Terrie A. Becerra, Summer B.C. Lewis |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Հրատարակիչ | Routledge, 2015 |
| ISBN | 1317261488, 9781317261483 |
| Length | 272 էջ |
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