Social Justice and Deep Participation - Theory and Practice for the 21st Century

"Economic and political power alone is inadequate to solve 21st century problems of poverty, climate change, and securing the peace. Social movements are making a comeback but they also do not seem to be up to the task. Deep Participation and Social Justice offers the means to change this status quo. Original research identifies the unknown dynamic of deep participation culminating in a hard-to-find social integrative power. Operating within communities in the midst of rapid social change, this power provides the social legitimacy and sustainability for difficult but necessary economic and political change. As a result, social groups can collectively re-invent and re-organize their own institutions within their own preferred culture. This is not just onemore ideology. Rather, social integrative power is a natural dynamic of the world, similar to the much better recognized 'political threat power' and 'economic coercive power'. This new approach to hands-on change and emerging participatory social theorypromises a greater shared prosperity and justice for all. "--

List of contents

Introduction: Turning Points PART I: RETHINKING PARTICIPATION AND SOCIAL CHANGE 1. Background and Overview 2. Current Participatory Approaches 3. Rethinking Participation Practice and Theory PART II: DEEP PARTICIPATION: A NATURAL DYNAMIC OF THE WORLD 4. New Directions 5. The Six Elements of Deep Participation 6. Tracing Deep Participation in West Africa 7. Tracing Deep Participation in North America PART III: PARTICIPATORY SOCIAL THEORY IN A FAST CHANGING WORLD 8. Stalemate or Reinvention? 9. The Dynamics of Participation 10. Formulating a Participatory Social Theory 11. Conclusion: Creating Social Justice

Product details

• Authors: Paula Donnelly Roark, Kenneth A Loparo, Kenneth A. Loparo, P. Donnelly Roark
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.11.2014
• EAN: 9781137436863
• ISBN: 978-1-137-43686-3
• No. of pages: 239
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science; B, Economic Policy, Africa, Poverty, Politics & government, Political science & theory, Development Aid, Economic development, Development policy, African Politics, Development Studies, Palgrave Intern. Relations & Development Collection, Development Economics, Development economics & emerging economies, Political Communication, Africa—Politics and government