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  • Progressive Community Organizing

    Transformative Practice in a Globalizing World

    by Loretta Pyles ...
    Now in its third edition, Progressive Community Organizing: Transformative Practice in a Globalizing World introduces readers to the rich practice of progressive community organizing for social change while also providing concrete tools geared toward practitioner skill building.Drawing from social movement scholarship and social theory, this book articulates a transformative approach to organizing ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Ethics, Equity and Community Development

    by Loretta Pyles, Bipin Jojo, Len Collard, Pradeep Narayanan, Jeroen Gradener, Neil Barringham, Ann Walton, Satu Ranta-Trykkoe, Mike De Kreek, Lynda Shevellar, Keith Popple ...
    Series series Rethinking Community Development
    This book offers a unique focus on the everyday ethics of community development practice in the context of local and global struggles for equity and social justice.Contributors from around the world (from India to the Netherlands and USA) grapple with ethical dilemmas and tensions, including how to: respect and learn from Indigenous values and philosophies; challenge environmental destruction; ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Healing Justice

    Holistic Self-Care for Change Makers

    by Loretta Pyles ...
    In the context of multiple forms of global economic, social, and cultural oppression, along with intergenerational trauma, burnout, and public services retrenchment, this book offers a framework and set of inquiries and practices for social workers, activists, community organizers, counselors, and other helping professionals. Healing justice, a term that has emerged in social movements in the last ... Read more

    $42.29 USD

  • Production of Disaster and Recovery in Post-Earthquake Haiti

    Disaster Industrial Complex

    by Juliana Svistova, Loretta Pyles ...
    Series series Routledge Humanitarian Studies
    Natural disasters have long been seen as naturally generated events, but as scientific, technological, and social knowledge of disasters has become more sophisticated, the part that people and systems play in disaster events has become more apparent. Production of Disaster and Recovery in Post-Earthquake Haiti demonstrates how social processes impact disasters as they unfold, through the ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Participatory Action Research

    by Hal A. Lawson, James Caringi, Loretta Pyles, Christine Bozlak, Janine Jurkowski ...
    Series series Pocket Guide to Social Work Research Methods
    As novel, complex social problems increase, especially those involving vulnerable people who reside in challenging places, the limitations of conventional research methods implemented by just one or two investigators become apparent. Research and development alternatives are needed, particularly methods that engage teams of researchers in real world problem solving while simultaneously generating ... Read more

    $45.89 USD

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  • White Fragility

    Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

    by Dr. Robin DiAngelo ...
    The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality.In this “vital, necessary, and beautiful book” (Michael Eric Dyson), antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo deftly illuminates the phenomenon of white fragility and “allows us to understand racism as a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Community Development in an Uncertain World

    Vision, Analysis and Practice

    by Jim Ife ...
    In Community Development in an Uncertain World, Jim Ife draws on the principles of social justice, ecological responsibility and post-Enlightenment and Indigenous perspectives to advance new holistic approaches to community development. The book explores the concept of community development on a local and international scale in the context of globalisation and postcolonial theory. Students will ... Read more

    $76.29 USD

  • Nice Racism

    How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm

    by Dr. Robin DiAngelo ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERBuilding on the groundwork laid in the New York Times bestseller White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo explores how a culture of niceness inadvertently promotes racism.**In White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo explained how racism is a system into which all white people are socialized and challenged the belief that racism is a simple matter of good people versus bad. DiAngelo also ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Anthropology and Development

    Culture, Morality and Politics in a Globalised World

    by Emma Crewe, Richard Axelby ...
    In recent decades international development has grown into a world-shaping industry. But how do aid agencies work and what do they achieve? How does aid appear to the adults and children who receive it? And why has there been so little improvement in the position of the poor? Viewing aid and development from anthropological perspectives gives illuminating answers to questions such as these. This ... Read more

    $44.29 USD

  • The Art of Happiness in a Troubled World

    by Dalai Lama, Howard Cutler M.D. ...
    Blending common sense and modern psychiatry, The Art of Happiness in a Troubled World applies Buddhist tradition to twenty-first-century struggles in a relevant way. The result is a wise approach to dealing with human problems that is both optimistic and realistic, even in the most challenging times.How can we expect to find happiness and meaning in our lives when the modern world seems such an ... Read more

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  • Red Brother, White Brother

    A Time for Atonement

    by Dr. Jean Lafrance ...
    Aboriginal families and communities are losing their children to child welfare systems at an alarming rate. Such children have very poor futures to look forward to; rejection, abuse and belonging to nowhere are too often the fate of children in care. Academic failure, poor self-esteem and loss of identity accompany them, often right into life on the streets, experiencing lateral violence, ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Participatory Practice

    Community-based Action for Transformative Change

    by Margaret Ledwith, Jane Springett ...
    In this second edition of a bestselling book, the authors’ unique, holistic and radical perspective on participatory practice has been updated to reflect advances made in the past decade, the impact of neoliberalism and austerity, and the challenges of climate change and the pandemic.Bridging the divide between community development ideas and practice, over half of this innovative book comprises ... Read more

    $35.99 USD