ABSTRACT
Processes of social change are founded on the capacity of local communities to come together as a collective. It is in its identity as a collective that the community becomes a key stakeholder in decision-making processes, developing the capacities to identify the absence of resources, developing community-based understandings of problems, and putting together solutions that are directed at addressing these problems. The community becomes the locus for enacting agency, and organizing processes offer a framework for the collective agency of the community that draws upon the cultural resources to seek out spaces of structural transformation. The communicative processes involved in the formation of the collective, the crafting of a collective identity, and the development of infrastructures, capacities, and resources to meet the needs of the collective constitute organizing for social change. In this chapter, we examine the processes of organizing in the culture-centered approach that seek to bring about transformations in social structures, and rupture the silences that are perpetuated in the dominant structures of global hegemony. Particular attention will be paid to examining the specific communicative processes and practices that seek to bring about changes in social structures that perpetuate global inequities.
