Activism and Social Change: Lessons for Community Organizing

by Eric Shragge

Drawing on over thirty years of experience in community development practice, Eric Shragge offers a unique historical perspective on activism, linking various forms of local organizing to the broader goal of fundamental social change.

This new edition places contemporary community organizing in a post-9/11 context and includes a discussion of national and international organizing efforts--in the Middle East, in the Occupy movement, in European resistance to austerity measures, and in recent student protests in Quebec. A new chapter-length case study covering Shragge's long-term involvement with the Immigrant Workers Centre in Montreal offers one of the few English-language discussions of community organizing in Quebec. Activism and Social Change is an excellent core or supplementary text in courses on social movements, community organizing, or community development.

192 pages, Paperback

First published August 5, 2003

Reviews

[Joseph Robbins]

"Creating a 'democratic space' in which those without power can have a voice is a starting point in creating social change." - Eric Shragge

[Victoria]

DNF pp. xvii & 5

Interesting but very dense, library needed it back.