The body of work this book represents is clearly important both theoretically and in terms of encouraging scholars and practitioners in continuing efforts of large-scale change and Social justice.
In support of their approach, the authors: -identify four Dialectic tensions as being central to the process of Organizing for Social Change: control and emancipation, oppression and empowerment, dissemination and dialogue, and fragmentation and unity; -argue for a Dialectic approach which acknowledges that contradictory tensions can and do co-exist (for example, a project can control beneficiaries with tough conditionalities even as it emancipates them through economic empowerment); and -draw upon cases set in various contexts-Social justi.
Challenging this restrictive dualistic sentiment, this important book argues that Social change emerges in a nonlinear, circuitous and Dialectic process of struggle between competing poles of action.
Harter Assistant Professor, School of Communication Studies, Ohio University Conventionally, analysts of Social change perceive organizational initiatives in binary terms: for instance, projects are seen as being either top-down or bottom-up; local culture is seen as being either modern or traditional.
The book models engaged scholarship; it is truly refreshing to encounter scholarship that matters to various stakeholders, academic and otherwise\' - Lynn M.
The cases considered are fascinating, and the authors\' analyses of them are enlightening\' - Katherine Miller Professor, Department of Communication, Texas A&M University In Organizing for Social Change, one rediscovers the value of dialectics within a theoretically complex story of empowerment and transformation that is told in a very personal tone with careful attention to detail\' - Patrice M Buzzanell, Professor, Department of Communication, Purdue University Scholars and practitioners will find this book theoretically sound, methodologically rigorous, and rich with poignant narratives.
The body of work this book represents is clearly important both theoretically and in terms of encouraging scholars and practitioners in continuing efforts of large-scale change and Social justice
