Collaborate Now!

How Expertise Becomes Useful in Civic Life

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

AvAdam Seth Levine,Adam Seth (Johns Hopkins University) Levine

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Those who seek change in civic life have much in common: they each bring valuable expertise to the table and need to strategize with others about what to do. That's why new collaborative relationships between diverse thinkers are essential. Yet they're difficult to form. Collaborate Now! presents a new argument about why that is, along with tools to foster them anew. As with any form of voluntary civic engagement, these relationships require time and motivation. Yet on top of that, collaborators often start off as strangers, and are uncertain about relationality: whether they'll relate to each other in ways that are meaningful and brimming with interaction. Using case studies, field experiments, interviews, and observational data, this book provides a rich understanding of the collaborative relationships needed to tackle civic challenges, how uncertainty about relationality can produce an unmet desire for them, and actionable tools to surface and meet this desire.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2024-03-21
Mått158 x 235 x 20 mm
Vikt490 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor230
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781009411905

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1. Expertise and Collaborative Relationships in Civic Life; 2. A Theory of Relationality; 3. Relationality in Practice; 4. The Link Between Relationality and Collaborative Relationships; 5. Surfacing and Meeting Unmet Desire for New Collaborative Relationships; 6. Moving Forward: How To 'Collaborate Now!'; Appendix A: Qualitative Interviews Protocol; Appendix B: More Details on Local Policymaker Survey; Appendix C: Step-by-step Guide for Conducting One Type of Formal Collaboration: A New Research Partnership; References; Index.

'Partnerships between academics and practitioners can generate essential knowledge and can strengthen both academia and civil society. But few understand how to get them started. Adam Seth Levine uses his own extensive experience and rigorous research to reveal practical insights about how to launch and sustain such partnerships. All researchers who seek to collaborate with communities and organizations need his ideas, which should also influence how we think more generally about forming relationships in a democracy.' Peter Levine, Tisch College of Civic Life, Tufts University