Power, Empowerment and Social Change

ISBN-13: 9781138575318 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 258 str.

Rosemary McGee; Jethro Pettit

Opis

This book uncovers how power operates around the world, and how it can be resisted or transformed through empowered collective action and social leadership.

Spis treści

Part I  1.0 Introduction: power, empowerment and social change  Part II Conceptual and theoretical groundings and debates  2.1. Plus ça change…? Shifting power in a disorienting moment  2.2 Finding community: the power of unruliness  2.3 Rethinking accountability: a power perspective  2.4 Transforming power with embodied practice  2.5 Towards a political practice of empowerment in digital times: a feminist commentary from the Global South  Part III Analysing power and empowerment: frameworks and approaches  3.1 Did we forget about power? Reintroducing concepts of power for justice, equality and peace  3.2 Applying power analysis: using the ‘Powercube’ to explore forms, levels and spaces  3.3 Critical reflections on shifting the toxic alchemy of institutional power  3.4 Finding the right power tool(s) for the job: rendering the invisible visible  Part IV Understanding agency: social action for shifting power  4.1 Power and agency in violent settings  4.2. Micro-level analysis of power and its relevance for practice  4.3 Environmental defenders: courage, territory and power  4.4 The decolonising Zapatista revolution  Part V Learning and unlearning power for reflective social action  5.1 Learning about power in a Masters for reflective social change practitioners  5.2 Reflexive aid practice: naming and dealing with power  5.3 Consciousness-raising, intersectionality, and movement building for social transformation