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Empowerment: A Primer

Empowerment: A Primer

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General SociologyPoverty & Social Work

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ISBN10: 0367728389
ISBN13: 9780367728380
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 18 2020
Pages: 100
Language: English

This book provides an interdisciplinary examination of the multiple meanings of empowerment. Rather than seeking to define and critique this term, it draws out a range of different meanings, exploring diverse possibilities for action and engagement.

We must carefully examine the possibilities and limits of the approaches to empowerment we choose. Efforts focused on building individual skills and capacities, for example, may overlook opportunities for supporting more collective, community-based forms of social action. In concise chapters, the book maps out a range of ways that people can be empowered along different continuums of power, moving from more familiar forms of teaching and counselling to less common and more radical strategies for fostering solidarity and civil resistance.

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