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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After I completed the women's public policy–advocacy program at SUNY–Albany's Center for Women in Government and Civil Society, I began working with Milo Smith, who taught me the centrality both of maintaining democratic, grassroots, ...
After I completed the women's public policy–advocacy program at SUNY–Albany's Center for Women in Government and Civil Society, I began working with Milo Smith, who taught me the centrality both of maintaining democratic, grassroots, ...
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That program focused on creating a learning structure or “script” that would enable, and indeed encourage, ... Subsequently, one of us became the head of a new graduate university-without-walls program in a small alternative institution ...
That program focused on creating a learning structure or “script” that would enable, and indeed encourage, ... Subsequently, one of us became the head of a new graduate university-without-walls program in a small alternative institution ...
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... job and community activities as well as in more formal undertakings (ranging from dissertations and theses to major evaluations of existing programs to conducting needs assessments to creating new programs or community agencies).
... job and community activities as well as in more formal undertakings (ranging from dissertations and theses to major evaluations of existing programs to conducting needs assessments to creating new programs or community agencies).
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It was founded partly in response to the limitations of alternative programs of the seventies, which were often too preoccupied simply with “looking different” from their conventional counterparts. Our commitment to and perspective on ...
It was founded partly in response to the limitations of alternative programs of the seventies, which were often too preoccupied simply with “looking different” from their conventional counterparts. Our commitment to and perspective on ...
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For example, the director of one community-based agency interviewed a number of coworkers as an initial step for program evaluation and noted these positive side effects: (1) it gave him an opportunity to think about what they were ...
For example, the director of one community-based agency interviewed a number of coworkers as an initial step for program evaluation and noted these positive side effects: (1) it gave him an opportunity to think about what they were ...
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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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