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dc.contributor.authorPearce, Jenny V.*
dc.date.accessioned2014-04-28T11:05:03Z
dc.date.available2014-04-28T11:05:03Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.identifier.citationPearce JV (2013) Power and the twenty-first century activist: from the neighbourhood to the square. Development and Change. 44(3): 639-663.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10454/6128
dc.description.abstractThis article is about the alternative forms of power emerging in contemporary activism. It conceptualizes this new form of power as ‘non-dominating’, and puts forward six propositions which characterize this form of power. It builds on work about power with eight diverse communities in the North of England, to argue that this form of power does exist in practice at the neighbourhood level, even though it is not articulated as such. While neighbourhood activists have difficulty in making this form of power effective, at the level of the ‘square’ and global activism, new understandings and practices of power are under conscious experimentation. This contribution therefore suggests that better connections need to be built between these levels of activism. At the same time, non-dominating power should be recognized as enhancing the debate about effective and transformative change and how it can avoid reproducing dominating power.en
dc.subjectREF 2014; Power; Non-dominating power; Contemporary activism; Neighbourhood activists
dc.titlePower and the twenty-first century activist: from the neighbourhood to the square
dc.typeArticle
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12035


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