Description
| Product ID: | 9780198857457 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Systems Work of Social Change |
| Subtitle: | How to Harness Connection, Context, and Power to Cultivate Deep and Enduring Change |
| Authors: | Author: Cynthia Rayner, Francois Bonnici |
| Page Count: | 304 |
| Subjects: | Social and ethical issues, Social issues & processes, Business ethics and social responsibility, Organizational theory and behaviour, Business ethics & social responsibility, Organizational theory & behaviour |
| Description: | The issues of poverty, inequality, racial injustice, and climate change have never been more pressing. This book draws on stories of committed social changemakers to uncover effective principles and practices for social change, distilling a timely set of lessons on how connection, context, and power sit at the heart of the change process. The issues of poverty, inequality, racial justice, and climate change have never been more pressing or paralyzing. Current approaches to social change, which rely on industrial models of production and power to "solve" social problems, are not helping. In fact, they are designed to entrench the status quo. In The Systems Work of Social Change, Cynthia Rayner and François Bonnici draw on two hundred years of history and a treasure trove of stories of committed social changemakers to uncover principles and practices for social change that radically depart from these approaches.Rather than delivering "solutions," these principles and practices focus on the process of change itself. Through rich storytelling and lucid analysis, Rayner and Bonnici show that connection, context, and power sit at the heart of the change process, ensuring broader agency for people and communities to create social systems that are responsive and representative in a rapidly changing world. Simple yet profound, this book distills a timely set of lessons for practitioners, leaders, scholars, and policymakers. |
| Imprint Name: | Oxford University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Oxford University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-10-12 |
