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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In summary, people's informal democratic participation in the analysis of past problems and future solutions has emerged as a powerful force for directing global institutions toward equality and redistribution and for initiating new ...
In summary, people's informal democratic participation in the analysis of past problems and future solutions has emerged as a powerful force for directing global institutions toward equality and redistribution and for initiating new ...
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Higher education should help community-involved adults become aware of their intellectual strengths, of what they already know and can do, by thinking, talking, and writing about those strengths, and applying them to problems that the ...
Higher education should help community-involved adults become aware of their intellectual strengths, of what they already know and can do, by thinking, talking, and writing about those strengths, and applying them to problems that the ...
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to probe beneath the more obvious, surface facets of problems that concern us in designing more effective strategies. • to communicate what we know to coworkers, to others working on similar problems, and to funding agencies.
to probe beneath the more obvious, surface facets of problems that concern us in designing more effective strategies. • to communicate what we know to coworkers, to others working on similar problems, and to funding agencies.
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to mobilize people to take action on community problems—indeed, research activities such as interviewing can ... from neighboring communities, and from different professional backgrounds and areas of community problem solving.
to mobilize people to take action on community problems—indeed, research activities such as interviewing can ... from neighboring communities, and from different professional backgrounds and areas of community problem solving.
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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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