Democracy works : joining theory and action to foster global change
An introductory study for activists and students showing how social groups and movements are uniting to further democracy and achieve enduring change.
iv, 268 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9781594516023, 1594516022
226355647
Pt. I. Examining Theory, History, Methodology, and Action
1. Using Democracy to Promote a Historical Transition Today / Tony D. Dickinson
2. Participatory Action-Research, Inclusiveness, and Empowering Community Action at the Western Institute for Social Research / John Bilorusky, Terry Lunsford and Cynthia Lawrence
3. Deliberative Democracy as a Foundation for Sustainable Social Change / Donna C. Schenck-Hamlin, Timothy R. Steffensmeier and William J. Schenck-Hamlin
4. The Power of One: Democracy and the Fear of Freedom as Political Paradigm / Prabha Manuratne and Buddhika Bandara
Pt. II. Changing the Intersecting Global Institutions of Firm, Market, State, Household, "Race," Class, Gender/Sexuality/Age, and Global South/North
5. Abolishing the Death Penalty, Abolishing Prisons / Mechthild Nagel
6. Defining Nonviolence as a Language and Strategy / Susan L. Allen
7. Women's Civil-Societal Movements for Peace in Chechnya and Russia / Ekaterina Romanova
8. Becoming an Activist for Global Gender Change / Christopher E. Renner
9. "Comercio con Justicia" and Theory in Action at a Guatemalan Women's Textile Cooperative / Summer B. C. Lewis and Kendra Staley
10. The Corporatization of Fair Trade, Small Farmers, Alienated Consumers, and Social Movements / Rink Dickinson
Pt. III. Rebuilding Civil Society, Reclaiming the Civil Commons
11. Women Take the Lead: Changing Global Economics with Grassroots Cooperatives / Joyce Rothschild
12. Education for Life at Danish Folk Schools and Highlander / Marilyn Jackson
13. Addressing Global Water Issues Together / Terrie A. Becerra
14. Building Feminism, Redesigning Water Governance in Sub-Saharan Africa / Leticia Nkonya
15. "Have I Got an Ethic for You!": Ecofeminism as the Heart of Progressive Environmental Action / Valerie Carroll
16. The Evolution of an Agricultural-Environmental Ethic / Dan Nagengast
17. Social Change through Sustainable Agriculture and Sustainable Consumers / Rhonda R. Janke
18. The Small Farmers' Movement of Cajibio, Colombia, and the Central New York Sister-City Partnership / Colleen Kattau
Pt. IV. Changing Intersecting Institutions, Reinventing Society
19. Praxis Reinvents Education, Democracy, and Society / Tony D. Dickinson