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Barriers. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, Sep 2008, Pages: 188
The purpose of this book is to examine whether the
“Movement of movements” has the capacity to unite
into a larger movement for social change. Despite
nine years after the “Battle of Seattle,” multiple
protests, conferences, listservs, and World Social
Forums (WSFs), this social movement phenomenon is
presently fragmented into many narrowly focused
movements finding themselves precariously poised
against a “common enemy.” However, there are many
indications that factions of this Movement of
movements has some potential transformation capacity
into a higher level of unity greater than what is
currently experienced based on shared grievances and
values. This analysis provides a new theory called
the Relational Empowerment Strategy (RES) that can
act as a foundation to facilitate separate movements
to unite for the common good and shift society into a
more sustainable paradigm. This book should help
scholar-activists, scholars, and activists reexamine
this movement phenomenon’s future.
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