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  • Arts, Culture and Community Development

    Series series Rethinking Community Development
    How and why are arts and cultural practices meaningful to communities?Highlighting examples from Lebanon, Latin America, China, Ireland, India, Sri Lanka and beyond, this exciting book explores the relationship between the arts, culture and community development.Academics and practitioners from six continents discuss how diverse communities understand, re-imagine or seek to change personal, ... Read more

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  • Communities, Archives and New Collaborative Practices

    Series series Connected Communities
    This innovative book examines the changing relationship between communities, citizens and the notion of the archive.Archives have traditionally been understood as repositories of knowledge and experience, remote from the ordinary people who fund and populate them, however digital resources have led to a growing plurality of archives and the practices associated with collecting and curating. This ... Read more

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    How do the communication practices of governments, NGOs and social movements enhance opportunities for citizen-led change?In this incisive book, Thomas Tufte makes a call for a fundamental rethinking of what it takes to enable citizens’ voices, participation and power in processes of social change. Drawing on examples ranging from the Indignados movement in Spain to media activists in Brazil, from ... Read more

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    A critical, global counterpoint to more western-centric texts that will appeal to critical leadership scholars, those teaching leadership from a critical perspective and those teaching leadership with an international focus.Split into two parts; its first part presents the local and regional variations in leadership from across the globe, with each of the twenty individual authors presenting the ... Read more

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  • Popular Education Practice for Youth and Community Development Work

    Series series Empowering Youth and Community Work PracticeýLM Series
    Drawing on the legacy of Paulo Freire and the insights of Antonio Gramsci, this book provides new ways of working with communities which put people at the heart of the development agenda. In addition, it offers a strong theoretical basis for action and an insight into the practical application of popular education methods and is based upon strong traditions of practice experience from both the ... Read more

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  • People's Knowledge and Participatory Action Research eBook

    Escaping the white-walled labyrinth

    The world of research run by universities and other institutions is dominated by a culture that is white, upper-middle class and male. When people from communities that have previously been excluded are asked to take part in research – even participative research -- they are seldom able to do so on equal terms. Instead of being supported to draw on the expertise that they have gained from their ... Read more

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  • To Exist is to Resist

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    This book brings together activists, artists and scholars of colour to show how Black feminism and Afrofeminism are being practiced in Europe today, exploring their differing social positions in various countries, and how they organise and mobilise to imagine a Black feminist Europe.Deeply aware that they are constructed as 'Others' living in a racialised and hierarchical continent, the ... Read more

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  • The Good University

    What Universities Actually Do and Why It’s Time for Radical Change

    The higher education industry might seem like it's booming, with over 200 million students in universities and colleges worldwide and funds flowing in like never before. But the truth is that these institutions have never been unhappier places to work. Corporate-style management, cost-cutting governments, mobilisations by angry students and strikes by a disgruntled workforce have taken their toll ... Read more

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  • The Handbook of Development Communication and Social Change

    Series series Global Handbooks in Media and Communication Research
    This valuable resource offers a wealth of practical and conceptual guidance to all those engaged in struggles for social justice around the world. It explains in accessible language and painstaking detail how to deploy and to understand the tools of media and communication in advancing the goals of social, cultural, and political change.A stand-out reference on a vital topic of primary ... Read more

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  • The Routledge Handbook of Global Cultural Policy

    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    Cultural policy intersects with political, economic, and socio-cultural dynamics at all levels of society, placing high and often contradictory expectations on the capabilities and capacities of the media, the fine, performing, and folk arts, and cultural heritage. These expectations are articulated, mobilised and contested at – and across – a global scale. As a result, the study of cultural ... Read more

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