ABSTRACT
Throughout 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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|71 pages
Examining Theory, History, Methodology, and Action
part II|70 pages
Changing the Intersecting Global Institutions of Firm, Market, State, Household, “Race,” Class, Gender/Sexuality/Age, and Global South/North
part III|104 pages
Rebuilding Civil Society, Reclaiming the Civil Commons
part IV|13 pages
Changing Intersecting Institutions, Reinventing Society