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A comprehensive and broad range of books to read if you are Interested in activism, campaigning, organising, social change and justice. These recommendations come from the Commons Library and a multitude of other social change organisations and networks (see Explore Further below).
1 gru 2012 · Our goal in this paper is to provide tools and analyses that can help organizations take what they already know about power, through their own experiences, and use that knowledge in new ways to further their strategies and long-term goals.
7 mar 2021 · This paper discusses these challenges and sets out to broaden and deepen the theoretical basis for studying the implications of power for research on social change and innovation. Power is one of the most contested concepts in social and political theory.
The introduction to the book (Chapter 1) draws briefly on ideas from the new social studies of childhood, to point to the way that children in the past were often assumed to have greater resilience to life than they are now.
analysis of power could support them to achieve the social change they were working towards. This helped organisations to recognise their own power, as well as to understand power issues in relation to the political, social and economic environment within which they were working.
21 paź 2019 · This framework provides a fresh look at empowerment, allowing for explanations of how women in specific contexts experience empowerment and social change.
5 gru 2012 · Okitikpi addresses the subject of social control and power in an edited volume that takes a range of perspectives on the issue of power in child and family social work, including the perspective of a range of professionals and academics and also a self-described lay person.
