Power, Empowerment and Social Change

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-138-57531-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 276 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 427 g

Reihe: Rethinking Development

This book uncovers how power operates around the world, and how it can be resisted or transformed through empowered collective action and social leadership. The stakes have never been higher. Recent years have seen a rapid escalation of inequalities, the rise of new global powers and corporate interests, increasing impunity of human rights violations, suppression of civil society, and a re-shaping of democratic processes by post-truth, populist and nationalist politics.

Rather than looking at power through the lenses of agency or structure alone, this book views power and empowerment as complex and multidimensional societal processes, defined by pervasive social norms, conditions, constraints and opportunities. Bridging theory and practice, the book explores real-world applications using a selection of frameworks, tools, case studies, examples, resources and reflections from experience to support actors to analyse their positioning and align themselves with progressive social forces.

Compiled with social change practitioners, students and scholars in mind, Power, Empowerment and Social Change is the perfect volume for anyone involved in politics, international development, sociology, human rights and environmental justice who is looking for fresh insights for transforming power in favour of relatively less powerful people.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mcgee, Rosemary

Pettit, Jethro

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Sozialisation, Soziale Interaktion, Sozialer Wandel
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Entwicklungsstudien
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Rosemary McGee is a Senior Research Fellow in the Power and Popular Politics Cluster, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK.

Jethro Pettit is a freelance consultant, facilitator and former Director of Teaching and Learning at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, UK