Writing Community Change: Designing Technologies for Citizen Action (New Dimensions in Computers and Composition)

Writing Community Change: Designing Technologies for Citizen Action (New Dimensions in Computers and Composition) Review

This is a book about how people use advanced information technologies to write for community change. The author argues that the work of citizenship is knowledge work - on the same order as that expected of workers in business and industry. The importance of this book is in the way is understands writing and technology, and the implications of these understandings for how we need to teach and learn with students.

Direct Citizen Action: How We Can Win the Second American Revolution Without Firing a Shot

Direct Citizen Action: How We Can Win the Second American Revolution Without Firing a Shot Review

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The Liberty Movement had no plan for victory so veteran political consultant, tea party activist and libertarian author Jim Ostrowski created one. Direct Citizen Action is a concise strategy manual for those who want America to be a free country again. Ostrowski explains what you can do right now to restore American liberty. Hint: it's not voting for the lesser of two liars or writing a letter to your Congressman's waste paper basket.

Citizen Action and National Policy Reform: Making Change Happen (Claiming Citizenship: Rights, Participation, Accountability)

Citizen Action and National Policy Reform: Making Change Happen (Claiming Citizenship: Rights, Participation, Accountability) Review

How does citizen activism win changes in national policy? Which factors help to make myriad efforts by diverse actors add up to reform? What is needed to overcome setbacks, and to consolidate the smaller victories?

 

These questions need answers. Aid agencies have invested heavily in supporting civil society organizations as change agents in fledgling and established democracies alike. Evidence gathered by donors, NGOs and academics demonstrates how advocacy and campaigning can reconfigure power relations and transform governance structures at the local and global levels. In the rush to go global or stay local, however, the national policy sphere was recently neglected. Today, there is growing recognition of the key role of champions of change inside national governments, and the potential of their engagement with citizen activists outside. These advances demand a better understanding of how national and local actors can combine approaches to simultaneously work the levers of change, and how their successes relate to actors and institutions at the international level. 

 

This book brings together eight studies of successful cases of citizen activism for national policy changes in South Africa, Morocco, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Turkey, India and the Philippines. They detail the dynamics and strategies that have led to the introduction, change or effective implementation of policies responding to a range of rights deficits. Drawing on influential social science theory about how political and social change occurs, the book brings new empirical insights to bear on it, both challenging and enriching current understandings.