Social Justice and Deep Participation

Social Justice and Deep Participation
Author: Paula Donnelly Roark
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2014-11-24
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1137436875

Knowing what deep participation is, and how it works, can make a critical difference in solving 21st century economic, political, and social problems. This book provides a new approach to hands-on change and begins formulation of a participatory social theory promising greater prosperity and justice for all.

Exhibitions for Social Justice

Exhibitions for Social Justice
Author: Elena Gonzales
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2019-07-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1351869175

Exhibitions for Social Justice assesses the state of curatorial work for social justice in the Americas and Europe today. Analyzing best practices and new curatorial work to support all those working on exhibitions, Gonzales expounds curatorial practices that lie at the nexus of contemporary museology and neurology. From sharing authority, to inspiring action and building solidarity, the book demonstrates how curators can make the most of visitors’ physical and mental experience of exhibitions. Drawing on ethnographic and archival work at over twenty institutions with nearly eighty museum professionals, as well as scholarship in the public humanities, visual culture, cultural studies, memory studies, and brain science, this project steps back from the detailed institutional histories of how exhibitions come to be. Instead, it builds a set of curatorial practices by examining the work behind the finished product in the gallery. Demonstrating that museums have the power to help our society become more hospitable, equitable, and sustainable, Exhibitions for Social Justice will be of interest to scholars and students of museum and heritage studies, gallery studies, arts and heritage management, and politics. It will also be valuable reading for museum professionals and anyone else working with exhibitions who is looking for guidance on how to ensure their work attains maximum impact.

Fearless Change and Social Action in Difficult Times

Fearless Change and Social Action in Difficult Times
Author: Paula Donnelly Roark
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2024-10-31
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1040148492

Our divided politics, unable to solve the challenges we face concerning society’s hierarchies of injustice, poverty, endless war, and climate change, are now backtracking to even more division. But the reality goes far deeper than the simple politics of left and right. For true change, we need something more profound: a culture shift, a collective change of consciousness. Fearless Change and Social Action in Difficult Times argues that culture shifts don’t just happen, they require a strong focus on social and cultural human connection which neither political nor economic power can provide alone. It is only deep participation and social integrative power which have the capacity to create these necessary cultural and societal transformations. Developing awareness in participatory groups of thought-worlds which remain out-of-sight but give cover to the implicit rules of culture and society is the first step to creating shared awareness of constructs and negative thought-worlds that subconsciously support inequality. Consciously putting aside those that are negative allows for the emergence of new positive realities and social movements. Thus, the real revolution is of the mind. It does take courage, but this is the process by which better futures are created. Offering significant contributions to sociology and social theory, this book promotes an understanding that societal change is rooted in social power and cultural shifts. Inclusive in its presentation, students, professors, NGO professionals, volunteers, activists, and interested observers will find this book of high interest.

Redistribution Or Recognition?

Redistribution Or Recognition?
Author: Nancy Fraser
Publisher: Verso
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2003
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9781859844922

A debate between two philosophers who hold different views on the relation of redistribution to recognition.

Culture and Economy After the Cultural Turn

Culture and Economy After the Cultural Turn
Author: Larry Ray
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1999-10-28
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780761958178

Traditionally social science treated culture as a peripheral issue, but the last twenty years have witnessed a cultural turn throughout the social sciences. Culture is now at the core of debate. Culture and Economy After the Cultural Turn examines the impact of the cultural turn for the social sciences in relation to the decline of interest in economic aspects of society. It presents a number of responses to the changing relationship between culture and economy, and to the way in which the cultural turn has sought to understand it. Contributors from a wide range of disciplines present differing views oon these matters in relation to issues of political sensibilities and movements, equality and recognition, `cultural manageme

Participatory Action Research

Participatory Action Research
Author: Caroline Lenette
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2022
Genre: Action research
ISBN: 0197512453

Participatory Action Research (PAR) privileges the involvement of participants as co-researchers to generate new knowledge and act on findings to effect social change. In PAR projects, academic researchers collaborate closely with co-researchers, working form the idea that these individuals, especially those who are usually marginalized from institutions, can be engaged in meaningful research activities to achieve social justice outcomes in addition to answering research questions. When deployed ethically in collaboration with co-researchers, PAR's participatory element facilitates a 'bottom-up' approach where knowledge is co-created through grassroots or community-based activities. This book goes beyond a PAR 'how to' manual on the methodology. Rather it synthesizes key learnings in contemporary research, with a distinct focus on the challenging aspects of undertaking PAR in practice and strategies to address these. It provides a clear and user-friendly collection of practical and contextual examples and presents key pointers on the implications of PAR methods, their strengths and weaknesses, and strategies for the field. These examples will be useful for critical class discussions, as well as to anticipate fieldwork pitfalls and pre-empt challenges through collaborative approaches.

Educational Politics for Social Justice

Educational Politics for Social Justice
Author: Catherine Marshall
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2020-01-17
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0807778176

Employing a social justice framework, this book provides educational leaders and practitioners with tools and strategies for grappling with the political fray of education politics. The framework offers ways to critique, challenge, and alter social, cultural, and political patterns in organizations and systems that perpetuate inequities. The authors focus on the processes through which educational politics is enacted, illustrating how inequitable power relations are embedded in our democratic systems. Readers will explore education politics at five focal points of power (micro, local/district, state, federal, and global). The text provides examples of how to “work the system” in ways that move toward greater justice and equity in schools. “This book challenges those who want to work toward justice with critical starting points, conversation starters, and strategies for collaborative leadership.” —From the Foreword by Enrique Aleman, The University of Texas at San Antonio “If educators are truly committed to their students, this text provides the analytic tools and consequent strategies to make public schools better for all of our students. Bravo!” —Catherine A. Lugg, Rutgers University

Social Work Research for Social Justice

Social Work Research for Social Justice
Author: Beth Humphries
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 159
Release: 2008-04-28
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1350313335

Students of social work need to understand the contribution of research, as part of this evidence base, to effective practice. This textbook introduces students to a range of research methods at a practical level and sensitises them to the political dimension of research.

The role of multi-stakeholder forums in subnational jurisdictions

The role of multi-stakeholder forums in subnational jurisdictions
Author: Sarmiento Barletti, J.P.
Publisher: CIFOR
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2019-05-04
Genre:
ISBN: 6023871208

This Framing Literature Review for In-depth Field Research draws on the knowledge produced from 30+ years of experience in participatory processes. It informs the Center for International Forestry Research’s (CIFOR) research of multi-stakeholder forums (M

Rights and Social Justice in Research

Rights and Social Justice in Research
Author: Kathryn McGarry
Publisher: Policy Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2024-01-30
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1447368290

This edited collection explores and illustrates the nature of research for social justice. Drawing on a diverse range of social research projects, it sets out what a rights-based approach to research looks like, why this framework matters and how we can translate them into operational research.