Introduction
Renowned organizer, educator, and academic Marshall Ganz has released his latest book, “People, Power, Change: Organizing for Democratic Renewal,” in 2024. Published by Oxford University Press, the book is rooted in 60 years of experience and draws on the values, ideas, and skills driving an actionable framework of how to do it.
Rather than offering students, educators, and organizers a blueprint of what to do, the book aims to offer a road map for learning how to do it, how to share it with others, and how to bring purpose, skill, and craft to it.
About the Book
Publisher’s description –
“At a moment when our democratic abilities seem to have eroded, and political, economic, and technological forces have weakened the capacity for collective action, People, Power, Change is a once-in-a-generation book for anyone who wants to create real and lasting change.
Marshall Ganz is one of the world’s leading authorities on democratic organizing, and this book is the culmination of his decades of teaching, research, and work. In People, Power, Change, Ganz distills for students, practitioners, and activists the principles he has gleaned over the last half-century of creating collective action.
Ganz explores the forces, craft, and learned skill of organizing and provides an actionable framework for how to actually do it. He focuses the book on:
- the creation and substance of relationships,
- the fuel of values and narrative,
- the resources and power of strategy,
- the necessity of structure, and
- the accountability of action.
Across these five organizing ideas, Ganz weaves in his personal experiences from a lifetime of organizing in iconic social movements and campaigns to illustrate how collective action actually works and to build the practices and skills that must be developed to do it with intention and with success.
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Relationships
Chapter 3: Narrative
Chapter 4: Strategy
Chapter 5: Action
Chapter 6: Structure
Chapter 7: Leadership Development
Chapter 8: Conclusion
References
Notes
Index
About the Author
Access Book
- Publisher’s website (Oxford University Press)
- Ebook (Amazon)
- Audiobook (Audible)
- Borrow from a library near you (Worldcat)
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