{"product_id":"progressive-community-organizing","title":"Progressive Community Organizing","description":"Now in its third edition, Progressive Community Organizing: Transformative Practice in a Globalizing World introduces readers to the rich practice of progressive community organizing for social change while also providing concrete tools geared toward practitioner skill building.\nDrawing from social movement scholarship and social theory, this book articulates a transformative approach to organizing that embraces emergent strategies and healing justice. It emphasizes framing processes and the power of stories using story-based strategy and digital activism. Embracing intersectional organizing, the book addresses topics such as identity politics, microagressions, internalized oppression, and horizontal hostility with attention to recentering and allyship as a growth-oriented journey of solidarity and liberation. Readers will engage with case studies focused on issues such as poverty, racial justice, immigration, housing, health and mental health, and climate crisis. This new edition includes:\nExpanded content on transformative change approaches including healing justice\nNew content on the role of digital technology and social media in organizing\nCase studies of the Poor People’s Campaign and Extinction Rebellion\nEmphasis on the power of stories and story-based strategy for organizing and issue framing\nTransformative organizations with attention to feminist and decolonized organizational structures and cultures\nExpanded chapters on strategies and tactics focusing on power analysis and a range of tactics from direct action to resilience-based organizing\nThe book will be of interest to students and practitioners who want to become more skilled in structural analysis, praxis, and self-reflexivity through critical and transformative engagement with historical and current social problems, social movements, and social welfare.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 036726594X\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.036726594X.A\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Acceptable\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Pyles, Loretta\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: The item is very worn but is perfectly usable. Signs of wear can include aesthetic issues such as scratches, dents, worn and creased covers, folded page corners and minor liquid stains. All pages and the cover are intact, but the dust cover may be missing. Pages may include moderate to heavy amount of notes and highlighting, but the text is not obscured or unreadable. Page edges may have foxing  age related spots and browning . May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43338104602685,"sku":"BVV.036726594X.A","price":26.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/036726594X-0.jpg?v=1783906404","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/progressive-community-organizing","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}