ABSTRACT
This collection of writings on democratic, participatory research and activism shows how various groups around the world have joined theory and action to foster global change. Activist writers examine democratic, participatory processes that involve people in the transformation of intersecting institutions, including hierarchies of gender/sexuality/age, “race,” and class as well as North-South divisions. Thoughtful activists explore how groups of people find open spaces within civil society to build alternatives, end global inequalities that divide people, and make firms, states, and Northern households become more humanizing and less dominating. All of these democratic projects have worked to undermine unequal, exclusionary ideologies and cultures and foster the development of new cultures and open ways of thinking about the world.
