Research Catalog

Title

Transforming power : from the personal to the political / Judy Rebick.

Author

Rebick, Judy

Publication

Toronto : Penguin Canada, 2009.

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Details

Description

277 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

In "Transforming Power", veteran activist Judy Rebick champions new ways of achieving political goals by emphasizing co-operation and consensus over confrontation and partisanship. Rebick argues that today's combination of environmental crisis, globalization, and rapid technological innovation is producing profound new ideas about social and political life, and that this is truly the way to change the way we live our lives.

Subject

• World politics
• Environmental policy
• Globalization
• Technology and state
• Social change
• Politique mondiale
• Environnement > Politique gouvernementale
• Mondialisation
• Politique scientifique et technique
• Changement social
• Social Change

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: A Better World Is in the Making -- 1 People's Globalization: Ya Basta! -- 2 Participatory Democracy: Power to the People -- 3 Bolivia: Hoping This One Will Be Different -- 4 Ubuntu: We Are People through Other People -- 5 Feminism: The Personal Is Political -- 6 Embracing Diversity: The Ground of Our Being -- 7 Convergence: Uplifting Environmentalism -- 8 Networked Politics: A New Grammar of Democracy -- 9 Leadership: The Political is Personal -- 10 Community Alternatives: Living the Change -- 11 Indigenous Ideas: Diversity in Dignity -- 12 Non-Violence: Neither Fight Nor Flight -- 13 Is Another Economy Possible? Green Jobs, Fair Trade, and Networks -- 14 And What About Political Power? Is the Party Over? -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

ISBN

• 9780143169468
• 0143169467

OCLC

• 310153482
• SCSB-11141922

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library