How Change Happens

De: Duncan Green

Narrado por: Christopher Preece

Human society is full of would-be "change agents", a restless mix of campaigners, lobbyists, and officials, both individuals and organizations, set on transforming the world. They want to improve public services, reform laws and regulations, guarantee human rights, get a fairer deal for those on the sharp end, achieve greater recognition for any number of issues, or simply be treated with respect.

Striking then, why so many universities lack programs for social activists, to which students can turn for advice and inspiration. Instead, scholarly discussions of change are fragmented with few conversations crossing disciplinary boundaries, rarely making it onto the radar of those actively seeking change.

This audiobook bridges the gap between academia and practice, bringing together the best research from a range of academic disciplines and the evolving practical understanding of activists to explore the topic of social and political change. Drawing on many first-hand examples from the global experience of Oxfam, one of the world's largest social justice NGOs, as well as the author's insights from studying and working on international development, it tests ideas on how change happens and offers the latest thinking on what works to achieve progressive change.

©2016 Oxfam GB (P)2017 Wetware Media

Ehh, more about being and activist than making change

This book is an overview about how to make change as an activist not on change generally. Which is more of what I was after.

All over the place, hard to follow, with a few useful insights

As a longtime changemaker striving to increase my knowledge and skills, I found very little to grasp on in this book. It felt like a random assortment of one off stories and very few actionable insights that I could use or offer to the many changemakers I work with. I liked How Change Happens from Leslie Crutchfield much much more that this version of How Change Happens.