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Zusatztext Here is a how-to-book in the best sense: a primer in how to beat the dragons. It has been designed for community organizers: to know! to feel! and mostly to think creatively how! not so much to lead! as to incite the powerless to find the power and speak for themselves....Ed Chambers is something of a secular priest! with the community as his parish! teaching that the least of us have the right to lead decent lives. Informationen zum Autor Edward T. Chambers is the executive director of the Industrial Areas Foundation. Klappentext The successor to the legendary activist Saul Alinsky, Edward T. Chambers pioneered a set of principles and practices that have guided community organizations throughout the US and the world. Roots for Radicals remains his definitive reflection on these fundamental principles of community activism: how, as public citizens, we can navigate the gap between the world as it is and as it should be, between self-interest and self-sacrifice and in doing so create lasting change for our communities.In the face of the increasingly turbulent politics of the 21st-century, Chambers's book has never been more relevant.An influential reflection on the importance, the values and the practice of community activism in the 21st-century, now available in the Bloomsbury Revelations series. Zusammenfassung The successor to the legendary activist Saul Alinsky, Edward T. Chambers pioneered a set of principles and practices that have guided community organizations throughout the US and the world. Roots for Radicals remains his definitive reflection on these fundamental principles of community activism: how, as public citizens, we can navigate the gap between the world as it is and as it should be, between self-interest and self-sacrifice and in doing so create lasting change for our communities.In the face of the increasingly turbulent politics of the 21st-century, Chambers’s book has never been more relevant. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword, Studs TerkelIntroduction: The Industrial Areas Foundation: Social Knowledge, Power, and Politicalness1. The World As It Is and the World As It Should Be2. The Relational Meeting3. Broad-Based Organizing: An Intentional Response to the Human Condition4. Relationships: Public and Private5. The Practice of Public Life: Research, Action, and Evaluation6. Reflections of an Organizer7. Broad-Based Organizing for the 21st Century: United Power for Action and Justice8. Thoughts on 21st Century ChallengesAppendix: Industrial Areas Foundation NetworkNotesIndex...
