
- 100 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
This book provides an interdisciplinary examination of the multiple meanings of "empowerment." Rather than seeking to define and critique this term, it draws out a range of different meanings, exploring diverse possibilities for action and engagement.
We must carefully examine the possibilities and limits of the approaches to empowerment we choose. Efforts focused on building individual skills and capacities, for example, may overlook opportunities for supporting more collective, community-based forms of social action. In concise chapters, the book maps out a range of ways that people can be empowered along different continuums of power, moving from more familiar forms of teaching and counselling to less common and more radical strategies for fostering solidarity and civil resistance.
This will be of great interest to advanced students and scholars in a wide variety of fields, particularly social work, public health, sociology, education, and international development as an introductory yet comprehensive study of the nuances of empowerment.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Table of Contents
- List of figures
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Continuums of power
- 3 Individual empowerment
- 4 Occupy Wall Street: a case study
- 5 Collaboration
- 6 Counterscript: an interlude
- 7 Solidarity
- 8 Civil resistance
- 9 Ecologies of empowerment?
- Appendix
- Index