Organising for Change : Social Change Makers and Social Change Organisations / Silke Roth and Clare Saunders.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roth, Silke, author.

Saunders, Clare, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social change.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (271 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Bristol University Press 2023

Bristol, England : Bristol University Press, [2024]

Summary:

Based on decades of research, this book explores global social change processes through the concepts of social change organisations (SCOs) and social change makers (SCMs) - the individuals working within and alongside SCOs.

Contents:

Front Cover

Series page

Organising for Change: Social Change Makers and Social Change Organisations

Copyright information

Dedication

Table of Contents

Series Editors' Preface

List of figures and Tables

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Beyond protest to actions and interactions

Our key concepts

Organising for change

Why our book matters

ICT, crises, and the persisting importance of SCOs

Multi-pronged approaches to social change

The on-going relevance of our argument

Relevance for social change makers

Overview of the book

A note on our positionalities

1 What Are Social Change Makers and Social Change Organisations?

Introducing social change makers

Introducing social change organisations

Varieties of SCO

Non-governmental organisations

Third sector organisations

Social movement organisations

Understanding the intersections of different SCOs

Varieties of involvement in social change organisations

Conclusions

2 The Big Picture: Social Change Makers and Social Change Organisations in Historically Variable Contexts

Historically variable contexts

SCOs in historical perspective: three threads

Thread one: from colonisation to Black Lives Matter

Thread two: from socialism to neo-liberalism

Thread three: from fascism to right-wing movements

3 Ways of Making Change

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Tactics, strategies, and repertoires

Spheres of action: ways of classifying tactics

Exploring tactics through the lens of causes

Protest

Violent protest manifestations and non-violent uprisings

Non-violent non-systemic protest manifestations

Advocacy and lobbying

Service provision and knowledge production

4 No Such Thing as a Free Gift: The Sources and Consequences of Resource Choices.

Material and non-material resources: concepts and definitions

Different tactics, different resource needs

The sources of SCOs' financial resources

The consequences of obtaining resources

Accountability

Professionalisation

The accountability consequences of professionalisation

Other consequences of resource mobilisation

ICT and social media as game changers

5 People Making Change

Recruitment into social change organisations

Pull factors for SCM recruitment

Push factors into SCM recruitment

ICT and online recruitment as push and pull factors

Variations of involvement in social change organisations

Identities of social change makers

Personal sustainability and (avoiding) burnout

6 Collaboration, Competition and Conflict

Intersectionality, organisational ecology, institutional isomorphism

Collaboration

Coalition building

Competition

Conflict

Conflicts among potential allies

Conflicts between opposed SCOs

7 Outcomes of Social Change Making

Outcomes rather than success

Policy, legislative and institutional outcomes

Institutional outcomes

Mobilisation outcomes

Socio-cultural outcomes

Individual-level outcomes of SCOs

Internal individual-level outcomes of SCOs

External individual outcomes of SCOs

Implications of our work for current times

Temporality

SCO interaction

Varieties of organising for change

A holistic approach to SCOs

Inspiring social change makers

Future research

Appendix: Our Projects

1. Volunteering in the male life course (1988-90)

2. The Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW) in the US (1994-97)

3. Day care strike in West Berlin of 1989 (1997-98)

4. Transformation of Environmental Activism (2000-2001).

5. Competition, collaboration and conflict in London's environmental networks (2001-2004)

6. Paradoxes of aid work: biographies and careers or people in aid (2004-13)

7. Democracy in Europe and the Mobilization of Society (2004-2008)

8. The impact of European Union enlargement on Eastern European women's NGOs and East-West collaboration (2005-2007)

9. Friends of the Earth International (2005-2007)

10. Caught in the Act of Protest: Contextualising Contestation Project (2009-12)

11. Surveying people working in aid, assessing skills and experiences: a pilot study (2011-12)

12. How citizens participate in politics (POLPART) (2014-18)

13. Designing a sensibility for sustainable clothing (2018-20)

14. Military veterans in disaster relief (2018-19)

15. A new climate movement? (October 2019)

Notes

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

References

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Roth, Silke Organising for Change

ISBN:

9781529236033

1529236037

9781529236040

1529236045

9781529236026

1529236029

OCLC:

1410591417