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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... events. 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.
... events. 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 hold up a mirror to ourselves and to the problems with which we are involved in order to get fresh insights and perspectives. For example, the director of one community-based agency interviewed a number of coworkers as an initial ...
to hold up a mirror to ourselves and to the problems with which we are involved in order to get fresh insights and perspectives. For example, the director of one community-based agency interviewed a number of coworkers as an initial ...
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Brainstorming can be very productive, for example, in creating new approaches to old problems—but only if there is a rule against scorning or putting down anyone's contribution and “silly” or “absurd” ideas are welcomed from everyone.
Brainstorming can be very productive, for example, in creating new approaches to old problems—but only if there is a rule against scorning or putting down anyone's contribution and “silly” or “absurd” ideas are welcomed from everyone.
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Deliberative Democracy as a Foundation for Sustainable Social Change | |
Democracy and the Fear of Freedom as Political | |
Changing the Intersecting Global Institutions of Firm Market State | |
Defining Nonviolence as a Language and Strategy | |
Womens CivilSocietal Movements for Peace in Chechnya and Russia | |
Becoming an Activist for Global Gender Change | |
Comercio con Justicia and Theory in Action at a Guatemalan Womens | |
Education for Life at Danish Folk Schools and Highlander | |
Terrie A Becerra | |
Building Feminism Redesigning Water Governance in SubSaharan | |
Ecofeminism as the Heart of Progressive | |
The Evolution of an AgriculturalEnvironmental Ethic | |
Social Change through Sustainable Agriculture and Sustainable | |
The Small Farmers Movement of Cajibío Colombia and the Central | |
Changing Intersecting Institutions Reinventing Society | |
The Corporatization of Fair Trade Small Farmers Alienated Consumers | |
Rebuilding Civil Society Reclaiming the Civil Commons | |
Index | |
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