Changemakers
New Society Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-86571-875-3 (ISBN)
A practical guidebook for ordinary people who want to create a new society now—by a community organizer and expert in transformative change.
With so many crises in the news, it’s easy to feel helpless about the fate of the world. But if we embrace hope and take action, we have the power to make a positive change. Personal actions can drive local movements that cascade into large-scale social transformation. In Changemakers, activist and community organizer Fay Weller his is the guidebook for ordinary people who want to create a new society now.
Weller explores the concept of transformative change, the difference it makes in the world, and how it is connected to learning. From creating a citizen-powered community bus service, to winning the right to local food, to women hand-sculpting their own houses, she shares powerful stories of everyday people who have challenged the status quo and transformed their lives, their communities, and society overall.
Changemakers also provides a workbook to guide people, wherever they are, through the process of catalyzing change.
Fay Weller is a community organizer, homesteader, researcher, and artist. She has focused on broad systemic change in her work and activism, and holds a PhD focused on social transformation. Fay loves the creative spark when working on new community ideas that increase ecological and just choices for citizens. She is engaged in numerous collaborative initiatives from a local bus service to sustainability planning, to affordable, low-impact heating. She nurtures, grows, and sells apples, eggs, and vegetables, and creates clothing from handmade fabrics. Fay has two adult children and a granddaughter. She and her partner Bob live on their Gabriola Island, BC farm with Yu and Mi, their two sheep, and numerous chickens. Mary Wilson has a longstanding interest in learning and communication for social change. She has worked for two decades as a facilitator, instructor, researcher, and instructional designer, and holds a Ph.D. in education. As a student of Buddhism, Mary is fascinated by the Boddhisatvas – metaphorical enlightened beings who embody wisdom, compassion, and practice. She sees the combination of wisdom, compassion, and practice as central to learning, and central to our collective efforts to live in harmony on our finite planet. An active participant in her Gabriola Island, BC community, Mary lives with her partner, her 92-year-old mother, and several critters. She and her partner are simultaneously caring for her mom, restoring a ramshackle island home, developing a permaculture food forest, and building an engineless catamaran.
Preface
SECTION A: CHANGEMAKING
1. A Tale of Egg and Agency
2. Transformation
3. Learning Change
4. The How of Change
SECTION B: STORIES AND REFLECTIONS
5. Sowing the Seeds of Change
Thinking about Food Systems
Changemakers' Food Stories
6. Walls and Roofs
Thinking about Shelter
Changemakers' Shelter Stories
7. Moving Forward
Thinking about Transportation
Changemakers' Transportation Stories
8. There is No Away
Thinking about Waste
Changemakers' Waste Stories
9. People Power
Thinking about Energy
Changemakers' Energy Stories
10. Cooperative Economics
Thinking about Economics
Changemakers' Economic Stories
11. From Analysis to Activism
SECTION C: CHANGEMAKERS' MANUAL
Introduction
Session 1: Transformative Spaces
Session 2: Learning Change
Session 3: The Genesis of Ideas
Session 4: From Spark to Action
Session 5: Cross Purposes and Spirals
Session 6: Linking with other Changemakers
Session 7: Societal Change
Facilitation Techniques
References
Index
About the Authors
About New Society Publishers
| Erscheinungsdatum | 12.06.2018 |
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| Zusatzinfo | Illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Gabriola Island |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 319 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Östliche Philosophie | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-86571-875-X / 086571875X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-86571-875-3 / 9780865718753 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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