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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A loosely woven constellation of political actors are now unraveling unequal, unsustainable global relations and defining new ones based on justice and peace. Working in tandem and often without knowledge of one another, a diverse body ...
A loosely woven constellation of political actors are now unraveling unequal, unsustainable global relations and defining new ones based on justice and peace. Working in tandem and often without knowledge of one another, a diverse body ...
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Second, action groups are creating society anew by introducing and nurturing new social processes that build inclusive, peaceful, and ecological relations in localities and global networks. Action groups typically engage in both types ...
Second, action groups are creating society anew by introducing and nurturing new social processes that build inclusive, peaceful, and ecological relations in localities and global networks. Action groups typically engage in both types ...
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The continual presence of antiinstitutional politics and the generation of new relations throughout the worldsystem's history can be helped by an appreciation of concatenation today: the overlaying of multiple politics and the ...
The continual presence of antiinstitutional politics and the generation of new relations throughout the worldsystem's history can be helped by an appreciation of concatenation today: the overlaying of multiple politics and the ...
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All of the book's chapters emphasize that both social-relational institutions (such as global society's sexist relations, including those involving paid and unpaid work) and location-based institutions (such as global society's state, ...
All of the book's chapters emphasize that both social-relational institutions (such as global society's sexist relations, including those involving paid and unpaid work) and location-based institutions (such as global society's state, ...
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This includes movements that confront institutions and those that initiate new social relations in civil society, made up of the social spaces that largely fall outside the control of business and the state.
This includes movements that confront institutions and those that initiate new social relations in civil society, made up of the social spaces that largely fall outside the control of business and the state.
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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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