John Gaventa

Auteur de Power and Powerlessness: Quiescence & Rebellion in an Appalachian Valley

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Œuvres de John Gaventa

Power and Powerlessness: Quiescence & Rebellion in an Appalachian Valley (1980) 174 exemplaires

Communities in Economic Crisis: Appalachia and the South (1990) 10 exemplaires

Globalizing Citizens: New Dynamics Of Inclusion And Exclusion (2010) 6 exemplaires

Citizen Action and National Policy Reform: Making Change Happen (Claiming Citizenship: Rights, Participation and… (2010) 5 exemplaires

Spanning citizenship spaces through transnational coalitions : the case of the global campaign for education 1 exemplaire

Participatory education and grassroots development : current experiences in Appalachia, U.S.A. 1 exemplaire

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We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change (1990) — Directeur de publication — 257 exemplaires

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Power and powerlessness : quiescence and rebellion… par John Gaventa

"Rebellion, to be successful, must both confront power and overcome the accumulated effects of powerlessness."

Yeah. That.

This book doesn't solve anything -- the quote above might be the closest you get to a "what next" payoff -- but that's not the point. The point is that people who are poor and uneducated are not stupid or weak. It really tried to set out what you know is true if you work in poverty realms at all -- that each aspect of poverty and powerlessness reinforces every other aspect. And that for the powerful to maintain power takes not a lot of effort.

It's not just the powerful setting the agenda. It's them writing the language the agenda's written in.… (plus d'informations)