Engaged Publics : Community Empowerment and Collective Organizing in Times of Crisis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bayfield, Imogen.

Series:

Observing Organisations Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Community organization.

COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (211 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2026.

Summary:

This book presents an ethnography of a community empowerment programme called Big Local.Following three community groups as they navigated the Covid-19 pandemic, it offers timely insights into how groups change when crisis hits and explores implications for our collective capacity to address society's most pressing problems.

Contents:

Front Cover

Half Title

Series Information

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Series Editors' Preface

List of Abbreviations

About the Author

Acknowledgements

1 Introduction

2 The Community Empowerment Paradigm: A Genealogy

3 Group Habitus: A Conceptual Tool

4 Doing Research with Three Community Groups

5 Two 'Organizing Logics'

6 Deliberative Styles

7 Emotional Habitus

8 Future Imaginaries

9 Discussion: Cultivating Engaged Publics

Notes

References

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781529250336

OCLC:

1609689193