Power Manual

How to Master Complex Power Dynamics

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

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Liberate yourself by understanding and mastering power dynamics All social relations are laden with power. Getting out from under dominant power relations and mastering power dynamics is perhaps the most essential skill for change agents across all sectors seeking to ignite positive change in the world.This concise action manual explores major concepts of power, with a focus on the dynamics of domination and liberation, and presents methods for shifting power relations and enacting freedom. The Power Manual:Clearly distills the major theories of power from post-modern and feminist theory to business management and developmental psychology, and beyondExamines key ways that power is deployed and transformed in societyPresents a new theory of power based on enactment-the bringing of something to life through one's actionsExplains how to refuse powerless identities and enact powerful onesHelps readers choose egalitarian interactions over dominationDemonstrates mastering the process of power expansionFeatures workshop games and group activities for identifying and shifting power relations.This accessible action manual is ideal for change agents, leaders, and activists across all nonprofit and business sectors aiming to understand, master, and shift power relations.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2018-07-03
Mått190 x 224 x 15 mm
Vikt363 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor192
FörlagNew Society Publishers
ISBN9780865718814

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Cyndi Suarez works with leaders in nonprofit organizations, philanthropy, and social movements, including most recently the Movement for Black Lives. She helps social change leaders move from struggle to flow by helping them build elegant ideas and structures. She has a MS in Nonprofit Management from Southern New Hampshire University, and studied Feminist Theory at the New School for Social Research. Suarez is Senior Editor at Nonprofit Quarterly, the leading nonprofit journal. She lives in Boston, MA.

IntroductionSection OnePOWER + IDENTITY | Refusing Powerless IdentitiesPower + Identity Intro 1 | Effective InteractionsSupremacist Power and Liberator Power 2 | Interaction PatternsPatterns of Domination and Patterns of Resistance 3 | Transmission of AffectLife-affirming and Life-draining Affects 4 | The Sources of Power RelationsDevelopmental Stages and Mind Forms 5 | Powerless and Powerful IdentitiesHegemony and Supreme Power Section TwoPOWER + CHOICE | Triggering Choice Power + Choice Intro 6 | Decision and ChoiceThe Efficient Unconscious and the Effort of Intention7 | The Social Aspects of ChoiceParticipation in Decision Making8 | Supreme ChoiceMastery Over Inner ExperienceSection ThreePOWER + THRESHOLDS | Creating the Self Power + Thresholds Intro9 | Rites of PassageSelf Formation in Liminal Space10 | Theater as Interaction and Identity CreationHigh Status and Low Status CharactersSection FourPOWER + GAMES | Playing with Power Power + Games Intro11 | The Purpose of PlayPlay As Evolution12 | The Structure of GamesOrdering Interactions13 | The Party GameSign Reading14 | The Stand, Sit, Kneel GameDeconstruction15 | The Tongue Twister GameReconstruction 16 | The Meisner GameReconstruction17 | The Yes, But/Yes, And GameSign Reading, Deconstruction18 | The Circle GameReconstruction 19 | The Lane GameReconstruction20 | The Body Language GameSign Reading21 | The Switching GameReconstruction22 | The Status Master GameSign Reading, Deconstruction, Reconstruction 23 | The Scene Study GameDeconstruction24 | The Character Study GameReconstructionReferencesIndexAbout the AuthorA Note about the Publisher