Activism, Alliance Building, and the Esperanza Peace and Justice Cente

Informationen zum Autor By Sara DeTurk Klappentext This critical ethnography describes the context, vision, and social change tactics of the Esperanza Peace and Justice Center in San Antonio, Texas. It explicates the important roles of intergroup alliances, strategic use of language, and arts programming as a means of connecting personal consciousness-raising to collective agency. Zusammenfassung This critical ethnography describes the context! vision! and social change tactics of the Esperanza Peace and Justice Center in San Antonio! Texas. It explicates the important roles of intergroup alliances! strategic use of language! and arts programming as a means of connecting personal consciousness-raising to collective agency. Inhaltsverzeichnis PrefaceChapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Research MethodologyChapter 3: Place and SpaceChapter 4: Chicana Feminist Approaches to Social ChangeChapter 5: LanguagingChapter 6: Story-Centered OrganizingChapter 7: Esperanza v. City of San AntonioChapter 8: Uncompromising Confrontation of InjusticeChapter 9: Alliances and CoalitionsChapter 10: ConclusionAppendixes

Product details

• Authors: Sara Deturk, DeTurk Sara
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.11.2014
• EAN: 9780739188644
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-8864-4
• No. of pages: 158
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social groups, Communication Studies, Social and cultural anthropology, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc, Social groups, communities and identities