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Abstract
Grassroot activists and researchers build on their varied personal experiences to clarify and strengthen the effectiveness of participatory group action in overcoming impoverishment, oppression and exclusion.
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| CONTENTS | 5 | ||
| Preface | 3 | ||
| About the Authors | 9 | ||
| I. A WORKSHOP THAT CONNECTED | 17 | ||
| 1. WHY WAS THE WORKSHOP SPECIAL? | 19 | ||
| Editors, Looking Back | 19 | ||
| Who and Why the Workshop? | 20 | ||
| Criteria of Selection | 20 | ||
| Identifying Participants | 21 | ||
| On the Workshop Process | 21 | ||
| Ka'ala: the Weekend and After | 25 | ||
| Revolt, Then Bonding | 25 | ||
| Ways of Knowing | 24 | ||
| Experience- or Issue-Based Discussion? | 23 | ||
| Agenda Review: Divergent Expectations | 22 | ||
| Songs and Opening Style | 21 | ||
| Experiences and Principles of Participatory Action: Fifteen Case Profiles | 28 | ||
| Dharma: Self-discipline and Love | 28 | ||
| Integrated Farming in the Philippines: The Whole Person | 31 | ||
| Coalitions of Fisherfolk: From the Visayas to Parliament | 34 | ||
| Creating People's Institutions in Inner City Chicago | 35 | ||
| Adapting Asian Institutions in Rural America | 36 | ||
| Knowing by Seeing, Confidence by Sharing: Newfoundland Model | 37 | ||
| The Deaf in Thailand: Overcoming Cultural Exclusion | 39 | ||
| In the Heart of India: Education and Structural Struggles | 42 | ||
| Proshika: Plurality of Approaches in Bangladesh | 45 | ||
| We do it Ourselves\": Bangladesh Women's Organization | 47 | ||
| Living Together: A Base Community in Manila | 50 | ||
| Transforming the Law to Support People's Rights | 52 | ||
| Renewal with Nature: The Restoration of Hawaiian Identity | 55 | ||
| Evergreen: An Educational Base for Community Action | 57 | ||
| Single Women against Poverty: Overcoming Exclusion in Canada | 59 | ||
| Reflecting on the Profiles: Issues of Political Economy | 59 | ||
| Qualities and Relationships in Participatory Initiatives | 61 | ||
| Synthesis and Momentum | 61 | ||
| Forging the Synthesis | 61 | ||
| Synthesis Statement | 65 | ||
| Weaving the Lei | 68 | ||
| Editors' Reflections | 69 | ||
| II. IDENTITY AND SOLIDARITY | 77 | ||
| Preface to Part II | 79 | ||
| 2. THE FOREIGN MISSIONARY ENTERS FILIPINO SOIL: | 83 | ||
| 3. GRASSROOTS COMMUNICATIVE ACTION AND CULTURAL | 89 | ||
| 4. SINGLE MOTHERS UNITING AGAINST POVERTY | 109 | ||
| 5. SIGNS OF COMMUNITY: DEAF IDENTITY AND THE | 139 | ||
| 6. TOWARDS AN ALTERNATIVE DEVELOPMENT PARADIGM | 167 | ||
| Editors' Reflections, Part II | 188 | ||
| Self and Other: The Insider-Outsider Relationship | 188 | ||
| Help and Autonomy | 190 | ||
| Challenging, Cascading | 191 | ||
| III. BUDLDING SPACES TO TRANSFORM THE | 199 | ||
| Preface to Part III | 201 | ||
| Editorial Opener | 204 | ||
| Creating Spaces to Change the Structures | 204 | ||
| 7. SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN THE PHILIPPINES: | 207 | ||
| 8. SELF-RELIANCE AMONG THE RURAL POOR: | 223 | ||
| 9. COMMUNITY-BASED, COMMUNITY-DETERMINED | 245 | ||
| Addendum: Widening Spaces through Participatory | 256 | ||
| 10. COALITION-BUILDING IN DIVERSITY | 259 | ||
| Editors' Reflections, Part III | 281 | ||
| Structures, Scale, Coalition-building | 281 | ||
| Counterviolence or Nonviolence? | 284 | ||
| Autonomy, Rights, Nonviolence | 287 | ||
| IV. TRANSFORMATIONS THE COMPASS ROUND | 291 | ||
| Preface to Part IV | 293 | ||
| Editorial Openers | 297 | ||
| Equity Overcoming Deprivation: First Change the Discourse | 297 | ||
| Moving Inward West and East, North and South: | 300 | ||
| Self and Other: When We Connect | 309 | ||
| 11. THE ENVIRONMENT AND DEMOCRATIC PROCESSES: | 315 | ||
| 12. A THAI COMMUNITY EXPERIENCE IN BIODIVERSITY | 325 | ||
| 13. LOCALLY BASED, ECOLOGICALLY SOUND, AND SOCIALLY | 341 | ||
| 14. SUSTENANCE AND SUSTAINABILITY: SOME VALUES AND | 361 | ||
| 15. THE WORKSHOP AS A BRIDGE | 385 |