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What’s in an activist toolkit?
[Usual provisos – it depends on what the person/people is being active about, and how they’re trying to make change happen. It depends if the activist is trying to work alone (not recommended, but sometimes unavoidable), in a small group … Continue reading
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Tagged movement-building, social capacity, social movements
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Abeyance structures and climate change…
Abeyance structure The political organisations and networks of people who keep a political movement alive in times of relative inactivity. Abeyance structures are often hidden from the wider public, but they play a special role in ensuring the continuance of … Continue reading
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Tagged abeyance, movement-building, social capacity, social movements, strategy
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Resuscitation for meetings, with the help of a rhesus monkey…
I have done a fair bit of event-organising over the last few years, using relatively innovative formats (some stolen, some invented). What I found was that afterwards people who liked the format would come up and say so and then … Continue reading
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Tagged bizzzzness as usual, boredom, ego-fodder, meetings, movement-building, rhesus monkeys, social capacity, social capital, social movements
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Account ability – excellent suggestions from Rhizome
This is why the Tinterwebs is such a brilliant invention. Cos you set up a blog, and you have a great bunch of people reading (and that includes you very occasional commenters, and heck, you lurkers too). And, just when … Continue reading
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Tagged movement-building, rhizome, social capacity, social movements
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Free to … Agree with our Lords and Masters
Social Capital or Social Capacity, as a (re)posting posed it a while back)? You are welcome to create “social capital” up until the point you resist the plans of your betters. Then you magically become ‘trouble-makers’. In local neighbourhoods alternative … Continue reading
A climate movement in Manchester? Pretty to think so…
A climate movement in Manchester? Wouldn’t it be pretty to think so. What is a movement? The environmental movement is simply a particular example of a social movement, and Italian sociologists Mario Diani and Elisa Rambaldo tell us that a … Continue reading
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Social capacity – not “social capital”
The recently ended “well-sharp” project aims to make academic work useful to activists. Not easy, but by these guys, very well done. This distinction – between “social capital” and “social capacity” is a really important one. Putnam is perhaps the … Continue reading
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GLOW- GrowLearnOrganiseWin
First try at explaining the “GLOW” thing I keep banging on about. In the making of it have stumbled upon the “Transtheoretical model” of Prochaska and DiClemente. But I digress. This video “names” the four elements, (not stages), but doesn’t … Continue reading
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