Overview

Power and empowerment are critical topics for social change. This handbook maps out ways that people can collectively engage with, influence, and change systems that affect their lives, particularly the systems that maintain inequality and oppression. It includes in-depth examinations of a variety of approaches to building and exercising community power in local organizations, institutions, and settings. Each chapter examines a particular approach, critically engaging with contemporary research on how and when collective action can be most effective at producing change within communities and societal systems. By examining a range of approaches in diverse contexts, this book provides new insights for scholars, practitioners, and engaged resident-leaders aiming to be more precise, strategic, and innovative in their efforts to build and sustain community power. It is the ideal resource for those working with community groups to build more just and equitable systems.

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Author:   Brian D. Christens (Vanderbilt University, Tennessee)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
ISBN:  

9781009153744

ISBN 10:   1009153749
Pages:   686
Publication Date:   25 April 2024
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Building community power: an introduction Brian D. Christens; Part I. Organizing and Activism: 1. Youth organizing Jerusha Conner; 2. Youth activism in post-apartheid South Africa Tafadzwa Tivaringe and Ben Kirshner; 3. Domestic violence and community organizing in India Suvarna V. Menon and Nicole E. Allen; 4. Congregation-based community organizing Paul W. Speer; 5. Immigrant organizing and activism Kevin Escudero; 6. Online racial justice advocacy Melanie Brazzell; Part II. Participatory Governance: 7. Citizens' governance spaces Albert W. Dzur and Carolyn M. Hendriks; 8. Participatory budgeting Loren Peabody; 9. Participatory urban planning Daniel G. Cooper; 10. Youth policy advocacy in municipal governance Astraea Augsberger and Mary Elizabeth Collins; Part III. Civil Society and Coalitions: 11. Community leadership development Wilson Majee, Sarah Hultine Massengale, Claire Rippel and Johanna Reed Adams; 12. Community coalitions and empowerment Michelle Kegler and Lauren M. Bigger; 13. Youth infused community coalitions Jessica J. Collura, Holly Raffle, Meagan R. Joseph and Mollie F. Stevens; 14. Neighborhood associations and community change Kayla M. Anderson and Brian D. Christens; 15. State-led community (dis)empowerment in China Ming Hu, Xiaoyun Wang and Yulong Lian; Part IV. Enterprise: 16. A new generation of worker cooperatives Joan Meyers, Sanjay Pinto, Laura Hanson Schlachter and Olga Prushinskaya; 17. Employment social enterprises Kymberly L. Byrd and Rasheda Weaver; Part V. Participatory and Community Arts: 18. Participatory arts for vulnerable populations Emily A. Hennessy, Anise Gold-Watts, Agata Z. Pietrzak, Sam Lapoint and Ana Bess Moyer Bell; 19. Community arts, decoloniality, and epistemic justice Christopher C. Sonn, Rama P. Agung-Igusti, Roshani Janya Jayawardana, Amy F. Quayle and Samuel P. Keast; Part VI. Education and Engaged Research: 20. Action civics Kathryn Y. Morgan and Parissa Jahromi Ballard; 21. Gender-sexuality alliances V. Paul Poteat, Robert Marx, Michael O'Brien and Megan K. Yang; 22. Youth participatory action research in school settings Kimalee Dickerson, Mariah Kornbluh and Adrienne M. Duke; 23. Community-based education Moisés G. Contreras, Virginia Downing, Carl D. Greer and Bianca J. Baldridge; 24. Community-engaged research Krista A. Haapanen, Nina Wallerstein and Shannon T. Sanchez-Youngman; Concluding thoughts on building community power Brian D. Christens.

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Brian D. Christens is Professor of Human and Organizational Development at Vanderbilt University, USA, where he directs the PhD program in Community Research and Action. His research is focused on how different organizational approaches to collective action - and different interorganizational network dynamics - can lead to changes in systems that benefit communities. His research also seeks to understand sociopolitical development processes among participants in these types of change efforts. He is the author of Community Power and Empowerment (Oxford University Press, 2019).

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