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Book SynopsisThis book contains a range of original studies on one of the major challenges in Africa today: the controversial role of youth in politics, conflict and rebellious movements. The issue is not only the drafting of child soldiers into insurgent armies or predatory militias, as in Somalia, Sierra Leone or Congo, but, more generally, that of the problematic insertion of large numbers of young people in the socio-economic and political order of post-colonial Africa. Even educated youths are being confronted with a lack of opportunities, blocked social mobility, and despair about the future. African youth, while forming a numerical majority, largely feel excluded from power, are socio-economically marginalized, thwarted in their ambitions, and have little access to representative positions or political power.Trade Review'The remarably contemporary case studies vary in theme and cover youth in East Central Africa and five nations on the hump of West Africa. R.M Fulton, Choice, June 2005.Table of ContentsContents Illustrations vii Maps vii Tables vii Photographs vii 1 Being young in Africa: The politics of despair and renewal 1 Jon Abbink PART I: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON YOUTH AS AGENTS OF CHANGE 2 Towards a political history of youth in Muslim northern Nigeria, 1750-2000 37 Murray Last 3 Imagined generations: Constructing youth in revolutionary Zanzibar 55 G. Thomas Burgess PART II: STATE, CRISIS AND THE MOBILIZATION OF YOUTH 4 Clash of generations? Youth identity, violence and the politics of transition in Kenya, 1997-2002 81 Peter Mwangi Kagwanja 5 Re-generating the nation: Youth, revolution and the politics of history in Côte d’Ivoire 110 Karel Arnaut 6 War, changing ethics and the position of youth in South Sudan 143 Jok Madut Jok 7 Anglophone university students and Anglophone nationalist struggles in Cameroon 161 Piet Konings 8 Past the Kalashnikov: Youth, politics and the state in Eritrea 189 Sara Rich Dorman PART III: INTERVENTIONS: DEALING WITH YOUTH IN CRISIS 9 From generational conflict to renewed dialogue: Winning the trust of street children in Lomé, Togo 207 Yves Marguerat 10 Children as conflict stakeholders: Towards a new discourse on young combatants 228 Angela McIntyre 11 Warriors, hooligans and mercenaries: Failed statehood and the violence of young male pastoralists in the Horn of Africa 243 Simon Simonse 12 Reintegrating young ex-combatants in Sierra Leone: Accommodating indigenous and wartime value systems 267 Krijn Peters List of authors 297

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Book SynopsisThe Maji Maji war of 1905-07 in Tanzania was the largest African rebellion against European colonialism. This volume offers the fullest account of the war in the English language. Using oral accounts and little-used documentary evidence, contributors offer detailed histories of districts and localities as well as groups, such as African soldiers in the German army, elephant hunters and women, whose roles in war have been neglected. The contributors examine varieties of communication during wartime, including the circulation of rumor between Africans and Germans. They also offer new insight into the most famous aspect of the war – the use of medicine which was believed to provide invulnerability. The contributors are historians and an archaeologist recognized as authorities on Tanzanian history.Trade Review'This impressive collection of essays attempts to supplement and broader the historical data on this important event, extending the period of the study of the war to as early as 1902 and as late as 1910, and broadening the area of conflict far beyond the area earlier studied, most notably far to the west of its purported centre of origins. The new and richly detailed information its contributors provide alters our earlier understanding of the war, not only in terms of new material, but important in terms of showing how much more complex and varied are the questions still to be asked about this conflict. Even our understanding of the name of the war is changed.' T.O. Beidelman in Anthropos 106 (2011)

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Book SynopsisConflict and Peace in Central Eurasia combines theory with in-depth description and systematic analyses of ethnoterritorial conflict and coexistence in Central Eurasia. Central Eurasia is at the heart of the Eurasian continent around the Caspian Sea. Much of this macro-region is made up of the post-Soviet republics in Central Asia and the Caucasus, but it also covers other areas, such as parts of Russia and Iran. Central Eurasia is subject to a number of ethnoterritorial conflicts. Yet at the same time, a large number of ethnic groups, speaking different languages and following different religions, coexist peacefully in this macro-region. Babak Rezvani explains ethno-territorial conflicts not only by focusing on these conflicts but also by comparing all cases of conflict and coexistence in (post-)Soviet Central Asia, the Caucasus and Fereydan, the so-called Iranian little Caucasus. Aiming at formulating new theories, this book makes use of qualitative comparative analysis (QCA), as well as case studies and statistical analyses. It provides an innovative and interesting contribution to Eurasian Studies and Conflict Analysis, and at the same time demonstrates a detailed knowledge of the relevant literature. Based on thorough research, the study offers a deep and insightful history of the areas and conflicts concerned.Table of ContentsPreface Chapter One. Introduction The Regions The Structure of the Book Chapter Two. Theoretical Framework Ethno-Territorial Conflict Ethnos and Ethnicity State, Nation and Nationalism The Causes of Ethno-Territorial Conflict Power of Culture: Religion, Language and Ethnic Kinship Power of History: Traumatic Peak Experiences Political and Economic Grievances State in Disarray Ethno-Political Systems and Opportunity Structures Ethno-Geographic Configuration Chapter Three. The Legacy of the Iranian and Soviet Ethno-Political Systems and Policies The Soviet Union and Its Successor States The Soviet Nationalities Policy: Historical Underpinnings The Soviet Union on the Eve of its Collapse and Beyond Iran Ethnic and Religious Policies in Iran: Historical Underpinnings Territorial Administrative Policies in Iran: Historical Underpinnings Ethnic, Religious and Territorial Administrative Policies in Iran: The Contemporary Situation Conclusion: Ethno-Political Systems and Ethno-Territorial Conflict Chapter Four. Methods Ethno-Territorial Groups and Encounters Ethno-Territorial Conflict Explaining Conditions Analyzing the Dataset Chapter Five. Ethno-Territorial Conflicts in the Caucasus and Central Asia Political-Territorial History of the South Caucasus The Karabakh Conflict Ethno-Territorial Conflicts in Georgia: South Ossetia and Abkhazia Political-Territorial History of the North Caucasus The Ossetian-Ingush Conflict over Prigorodny Wars in Chechnya Political Territorial History of Central Asia The Tajikistani Civil War and the Role Played by Tajiks, Uzbeks and Pamiris Uzbek-Kyrgyz Conflict in Southern Kyrgyzstan Conclusion: Patterns of Ethno-Territorial Conflict Chapter Six. Analysis: Searching for Explanations The Myth of Shatterbelts Testing the Explaining Conditions Separately Qualitative Comparative Analysis Conclusion Chapter Seven. It Was a Winter Morning: Conclusions Research Results Discussion Recommendations References Index

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Book SynopsisIn Communes and Workers' Control in Venezuela: Building 21st Century Socialism from Below, Dario Azzellini offers an account of the Bolivarian Revolution from below. While authors on Venezuela commonly concentrate on former president Hugo Chávez and government politics, this book shows how workers, peasants and the poor in urban communities engage in building 21st century socialism through popular movements, communal councils, communes and fighting for workers' control. In a relationship of cooperation and conflict with the state, social transformation is approached on 'two tracks', from below and from above. Azzellini’s fascinating account stands out because of the extensive empirical examples and original voices from movements, communal councils, communes and workers.Trade Review"This monograph presents the most detailed account available in English of communal councils and workers' control initiatives in Venezuela that have evolved since the beginning of the Bolivarian Revolution in 1999. [...] ... a sympathetic and yet unapologetic study of the developments of socialism within the Bolivarian Revolution, such as presented in this book, is indispensable to any serious engagement with the project of socialism for the twenty-first century." - Babak Amini, London School of Economics, in: Socialism and Democracy 32/2 (2018)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations 1. Introduction 1.1 Venezuela’s specific path 1.2 The dilemma of the state 1.3 Two-track construction 1.4 Local self-government, communal councils (CCs), and communes 1.5 Cooperatives, co-management, self-management, and workers’ control 1.6 The revolution without Chávez 2. Class, Constituent Power, and Popular Power 2.1 Updating the concept of class Theoretical notes on class and multitude Class composition and breadth in Venezuela 2.2 Socio-territorial segregation and class formation 2.3 From taking power to process: Constituent power and popular power Crisis as a motor of history: Constituent power vs. constituted power The popular constituent process The simultaneity of foci: Resistance, insurrection and constituent power Popular power: The knowledge of resistance 3. Movements and Alternative Construction in Venezuela 3.1 Social movements or popular movements? 3.2 The historical current for change and the ruptures of the continuum 3.3 The new framework of action 3.4 Popular actors and autonomous construction The Bolívar and Zamora Revolutionary Current The Settlers’ Movement National Network of Communards 4. The Communal Councils: Local Self-Administration and Social Transformation 4.1 Participatory budgeting The failed CLPP initiative Metropolitan Council for Planning Public Policies (CMPPP) The Municipal Constituent The Local Work Cabinets in Caracas 4.2 The communal councils The genesis of the CCs Makeup and structure Rigid law and flexible praxis Financing and financial administration Projects Decentralisation or centralisation Development, situation, and contradictions Relationship between CCs and institutions CCs and popular movements Relations between CCs and communities The appropriation of CCs by communities and the question of the state 4.3 The CCs as a means of participation in the barrios of Caracas The ‘Emiliano Hernández’ Communal Council, Magallanes de Catia, Caracas The CC as a body of self-administration Participation as a process of development and of social recognition Participation as a process of democratisation and of building collectivity The CC ‘Unidos por el Chapulún’, Parroquia Nuestra Sra. del Rosario, Baruta CCs in Caracas: Conclusions Participation Relationship between communities and institutions 5. New Collective Business Paradigms 5.1 Cooperatives Roots of cooperativism in Venezuela Governmental policies of support for cooperatives Limitations of state support for cooperatives Internal organisation of cooperatives The problematisation of cooperativism 5.2 New entrepreneurial models Private enterprise and co-management Co-management in state businesses Social Production Companies 6. Workers’ Control, Workers’ Councils, and Class Struggle 6.1 Recuperated companies and nationalisation 6.2 Workers’ control and workers’ councils The movement for workers’ control The Socialist Workers’ Councils The CVG and the 2009–19 Socialist Guayana Plan 6.3 Workers’ control: The example of Inveval From the struggle for pay to the struggle for the factory The workers abandon the cooperative and form a council 6.4 Alcasa: Class struggle for productive transformation against bureaucracy and corruption Revolutionary co-management The victory of bureaucracy and corruption Workers’ control returns The organisational structure of the new Alcasa Worker inventiveness workshops The Alcasa initiatives and the institutional embargo The attack on workers’ control and the negation of the Socialist Guayana Plan 6.5 New struggles for workers’ control 6.6 Approaching the issue of new worker subjectivities in the context of participation and class struggle Horizontality in the factory and change throughout society The new collective self 7. Communes, Production, and the Communal State 7.1. Communes Origin and form Communes and constituted power 7.2 Companies of Communal Social Property and the construction of a communal economy 7.3 Communal state: State or non-state? 8 Local and Worker Co-Management, Two-Track Construction, and Class Struggle: A Preliminary Assessment 8.1 The Bolivarian process and class struggle 8.2 Communal councils, communes, and communal state 8.3 Property models, the administration of the means of production, and class struggle 8.4 Nationalisation, workers’ control, and the Socialist Workers’ Councils 8.5 The relation of constituent and constituted power to class struggle Interviews References Index

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Book SynopsisThe essays analyze the most emblematic films about the guerrilla movement against Francoism, emphasizing how this Cinema of Memory dismisses concrete historic reference, thus allowing a reflection on the ethics of resistance and on the power of counterfactual imagination. Los artículos analizan las películas más emblemáticas en torno a la guerrilla antifranquista, enfatizando como este cine de memoria parte de un concreto referente histórico, desarrollando una reflexión sobre la ética de la resistencia y el poder de la imaginación contrafáctica.Table of ContentsA modo de introducción. Cine y guerrilla o la memoria intempestiva Pere Joan Tous y Cornelia Ruhe La guerrilla antifranquista como lugar de memoria. Coordenadas de una configuración narrativa e icónica Ulrich Winter El espíritu en el laberinto. La memoria filosófica de la guerrilla en películas de Víctor Erice y Guillermo del Toro Cornelia Ruhe Residuos de un pasado irresuelto. El maquis en el cine preconsensual de la Transición Daniel Arroyo-Rodríguez El magnicidio soñado. ETA y el asesinato de Carrero Blanco a través del cine Santiago de Pablo La pérdida del sentido. La imagen de ETA en Yoyes, de Helena Taberna Franziska Hudek Entre historia y memoria. La representación de la guerrilla antifranquista en Silencio roto, de Montxo Armendáriz Claudia Jünke Víctimas y victimarios en Les veus del Pamano, novela (Jaume Cabré, 2004) y película (Lluís Maria Güell, 2009) Daniela Bister Un artefacto de resistencia antifranquista en clave grotesca. Balada triste de trompeta de Álex de la Iglesia Ana Luengo Material de derrota. Avatares del relato mesiánico y ética de la dignidad en Caracremada (2010) de Lluís Galter Pere Joan Tous Los cronotopos de la memoria. Representación y reconstrucción de la guerrilla antifranquista en películas documentales Virginie Gautier N'Dah-Sékou Annex Nota del director Lluís Galter Nota del director (Traducción por Pere Joan Tous) Lluís Galter Entrevista con Lluís Galter Silvestre Garbayo Vidaurreta Un documental de 57 mn Odette Martínez Maler Entre ficciones y consensos anda el juego. O lo que viene en las películas y las novelas después de la palabra FIN Alfons Cervera

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Book SynopsisAre artistic engagements evolving, or attracting more attention? The range of artistic protest actions shows how the globalisation of art is also the globalisation of art politics. Here, based on multi-site field research, we follow artists from the MENA countries, Latin America, and Africa along their committed transnational trajectories, whether these are voluntary or the result of exile. With this global and decentred approach, the different repertoires of engagement appear, in all their dimensions, including professional ones. In the face of political disillusionment, these aesthetic interventions take on new meanings, as artivists seek alternative modes of social transformation and production of shared values. Contributors are: Alice Aterianus-Owanga, Sébastien Boulay, Sarah Dornhof, Simon Dubois, Shyam Iskander, Sabrina Melenotte, Franck Mermier, Rayane Al Rammal, Kirsten Scheid, Pinar Selek, and Marion Slitine.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction: Repertoires of Engagement in Motion  Pénélope Larzillière Part 1: Moving Repertoires of Engagement 1 Creating a Syrian Culture in Exile: The Reconfigurations of Engagement  Franck Mermier 2 The “Metamorphoses of the Political” in the Contemporary Art of Palestinian Post-Oslo Generation  Marion Slitine 3 Transnationalizing the Repertoires of Action: A Comparative View of African Rappers’ Engagements in Motion  Alice Aterianus-Owanga 4 Digital Artivism in Movement: The 2019 Lebanese Uprising’s Art on Instagram  Rayane al-Rammal Part 2: Artistic Visibilities and Political Circulations, in Diaspora 5 Presence and International Journeys of Engaged West Saharan Singers  Sébastien Boulay 6 Young Documentary Theatre on Syrian Stages: An Aesthetic of Circulation, Exile, and Engagement  Simon Dubois 7 Anatolian Musicians in Europe: Creation, Political Engagement, Transformation  Pinar Selek Part 3: Contest and Critique, in a Globalizing World 8 Palestinian Art Talk: A Local Lexicon for Global Art Production  Kirsten Scheid 9 Fictions of the Contemporary: The Shifting Spaces of the Marrakech Biennale  Sarah Dornhof 10 Focus on the Bahraini Art Scene: Centralization Processes and Social Engagement  Shyam Iskander 11 Embodying Absence: Remembering Mexico’s Missing Persons through Art  Sabrina Melenotte Index

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Book SynopsisIn this volume, Alessandro Grazi offers the first intellectual biography of the Italian Jewish writer and politician David Levi (1816-1898). In this intriguing journey through the mysterious rites of Freemasonry and the bizarre worldviews of Saint-Simonianism, you can discover Levi’s innovative interpretation of Judaism and its role in modernity. As a champion of dialogue with Catholic intellectuals, Levi’s importance transcends the Jewish world. The second part of the book presents an unpublished document, Levi’s comedy “Il Mistero delle Tre Melarancie”, a phantasmagorical adventure in search of his Jewish identity, with an English translation of its most relevant excerpt.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction  1 The Book’s Structure  2 Methodological Premise 1 A Life of Action: David Levi’s Biographical Traits Against Their Historical Background 2 David Levi’s oeuvre 3 Enlightenment and Secularity Mark the Way  1 Freemasonry and Secret Societies as Catalysts of Italian Jews During the Risorgimento  2 David Levi’s Affiliation with Freemasonry and Giovine Italia  3 “Socialismo risorgimentale”: Saint-Simonism as the Core of Levi’s View  4 David Levi and the Role of Women in Modern Society 4 A Particular Relationship to the Wissenschaft des Judentums 5 David Levi’s Literary Legacy Conclusion Contextualization of David Levi’s Il Mistero delle Tre Melarancie Appendix: Il Mistero delle tre Melarancie o La Commedia Eterna Fiaba e Realtà di Turandot  The Mystery of the Three Oranges Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWe live at a time when the competitive, capitalist model of action has eclipsed all other contemporary social and economic models and threatens the greater cooperative good of society. Neoliberalism is an attempt to reimagine governance in an age of mass democratic policies by its intention to inoculate capitalism against the threat of democracy. Education for Action: A Curriculum for Social Activists sees social action as a vital vehicle in challenging this intense individualistic, managerial and competitive ethos. Such action is a collective, transformative response to capitalism which combines local activism, community development and the advocacy of social, political and economic rights to help committed citizens initiate, stimulate and support social change at both local and global levels. The book explains the methods, instruments, theories and practices that help educators encourage activists to build power amongst concerned individuals using a curriculum that emphasises the importance of critical theory and which is accessible to everybody and rooted in their community. The author also stresses the vital role of education in helping activists resist the ideologies, actions and slogans imposed on society by authoritarian powerholders while simultaneously regenerating grass-roots politics and its belief in the viability of collective solidarity and social activism.Table of ContentsIntroduction  1 What Are You? The Case of Cabo Verdeans 1 Social Action and Its Threatened Future  1 Social Action Characteristics  2 Affective Intelligence, Social Action and Social Movements  3 Social Action under Attack  4 Neo Liberal Attitudes  5 A Collective Response 2 Common Sense: The Driver of Social Action?  1 Characteristics of Common Sense  2 Common Sense and Culture  3 Common Sense Durability: Its Drawbacks and a Short History  4 Some Common-Sense Thinking Examples  5 Theory and Hostility  6 Organic Intellectuals and Common Sense  7 Neoliberal Language  8 Gramsci’s Relevance 3 Studying and Thinking: A Critical Curriculum  1 John Dewey’s Ideas  2 The Seeking Curriculum – A Counterweight  3 Reflective Thinking and Group Exercises  4 Countering Compartmentalism  5 Systems Thinking – A Group Process  6 The Cynefin Framework  7 An Overview 4 Critical Thinking and Other Thought Processes  1 Why Critical Thinking?  2 Critical Thinking and Rationality  3 Biases, Fake News and Power  4 Thought Processes of a Tutor  5 Five Exercises to Improve Critical Thinking  6 An Overview of the Process  7 Group Thinking Processes 5 Types of Talk: Conversation and Dialogue  1 Positive Conversation  2 Good Conversation  3 A Frenchman and Conversation  4 Generating Effective Communication – Dialogue vs. Discussion  5 Getting Started  6 Deeper Listening and Thinking  7 Speech Processes and Metaphors  8 Task vs. Dialogue Process  9 Summing Up  10 A Personal Example  11 Dialogue, Technology and Democracy 6 Questioning, Acting and Framing  1 The Paul-Elder Model: Some Questions  2 More Questions, Questions …  3 Generative Themes  4 Goffman’s Frames  5 Replacing Frames – With Other Frames  6 Four Activities 7 Informal Settings and Authentic Language  1 Informal Settings  2 Authentic and Inauthentic Language  3 Three Validity Claims  4 Bullshit  5 Challenging Bullshit  6 Summing Up 8 Formal and Informal Language  1 Language and Codes  2 Formal and Casual Language  3 Playing Bingo  4 Using Clichés  5 Clichés, Banality and Evil  6 Tags and Lies 8 Formal and Informal Language  1 Language and Codes  2 Formal and Casual Language  3 Playing Bingo  4 Using Clichés  5 Clichés, Banality and Evil  6 Tags and Lies 9 Paying Attention  1 Pancakes and Attention  2 Some Relevant Questions – Or Not?  3 Attention Control – An Employee’s Warning  4 Sharing, Space and Time  5 Redirecting Attention  6 Concentrating  7 Listening to Learn  8 A Circle Exercise – Individual and Group Attention  9 Multitasking 10 Storytelling  1 Telling Stories  2 Giving Feedback  3 Levinas’s Ideas  4 “Engaged” Stories  5 Keeping Hope Alive  6 Political Stories  7 The Uses of History  8 Some Welsh Examples 11 Leadership and Group Development  1 Why Leaders?  2 Leadership Styles and Situations  3 A Group Leadership Grid  4 Small Groups  5 Facilitating Meetings – Some Principles  6 More Suggestions for Groups  7 The Circle of Voices Exercise  8 Team Talking  9 Two More Exercises  10 Summing Up 12 Social Action Practices  1 Action Practices and Strategies  2 Overview 13 Challenging Power  1 Types of Power  2 Castells’s Grounded Theory of Power  3 A Pioneering Exemplar  4 Power and Politics  5 A Dynamic, Positive Force?  6 Are the Net and Old Protest Habits Enough?  7 Students Are Activists, Too Postscript: Covid-19 and Beyond References Index

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Book SynopsisWe live at a time when the competitive, capitalist model of action has eclipsed all other contemporary social and economic models and threatens the greater cooperative good of society. Neoliberalism is an attempt to reimagine governance in an age of mass democratic policies by its intention to inoculate capitalism against the threat of democracy. Education for Action: A Curriculum for Social Activists sees social action as a vital vehicle in challenging this intense individualistic, managerial and competitive ethos. Such action is a collective, transformative response to capitalism which combines local activism, community development and the advocacy of social, political and economic rights to help committed citizens initiate, stimulate and support social change at both local and global levels. The book explains the methods, instruments, theories and practices that help educators encourage activists to build power amongst concerned individuals using a curriculum that emphasises the importance of critical theory and which is accessible to everybody and rooted in their community. The author also stresses the vital role of education in helping activists resist the ideologies, actions and slogans imposed on society by authoritarian powerholders while simultaneously regenerating grass-roots politics and its belief in the viability of collective solidarity and social activism.Table of ContentsIntroduction  1 What Are You? The Case of Cabo Verdeans 1 Social Action and Its Threatened Future  1 Social Action Characteristics  2 Affective Intelligence, Social Action and Social Movements  3 Social Action under Attack  4 Neo Liberal Attitudes  5 A Collective Response 2 Common Sense: The Driver of Social Action?  1 Characteristics of Common Sense  2 Common Sense and Culture  3 Common Sense Durability: Its Drawbacks and a Short History  4 Some Common-Sense Thinking Examples  5 Theory and Hostility  6 Organic Intellectuals and Common Sense  7 Neoliberal Language  8 Gramsci’s Relevance 3 Studying and Thinking: A Critical Curriculum  1 John Dewey’s Ideas  2 The Seeking Curriculum – A Counterweight  3 Reflective Thinking and Group Exercises  4 Countering Compartmentalism  5 Systems Thinking – A Group Process  6 The Cynefin Framework  7 An Overview 4 Critical Thinking and Other Thought Processes  1 Why Critical Thinking?  2 Critical Thinking and Rationality  3 Biases, Fake News and Power  4 Thought Processes of a Tutor  5 Five Exercises to Improve Critical Thinking  6 An Overview of the Process  7 Group Thinking Processes 5 Types of Talk: Conversation and Dialogue  1 Positive Conversation  2 Good Conversation  3 A Frenchman and Conversation  4 Generating Effective Communication – Dialogue vs. Discussion  5 Getting Started  6 Deeper Listening and Thinking  7 Speech Processes and Metaphors  8 Task vs. Dialogue Process  9 Summing Up  10 A Personal Example  11 Dialogue, Technology and Democracy 6 Questioning, Acting and Framing  1 The Paul-Elder Model: Some Questions  2 More Questions, Questions …  3 Generative Themes  4 Goffman’s Frames  5 Replacing Frames – With Other Frames  6 Four Activities 7 Informal Settings and Authentic Language  1 Informal Settings  2 Authentic and Inauthentic Language  3 Three Validity Claims  4 Bullshit  5 Challenging Bullshit  6 Summing Up 8 Formal and Informal Language  1 Language and Codes  2 Formal and Casual Language  3 Playing Bingo  4 Using Clichés  5 Clichés, Banality and Evil  6 Tags and Lies 8 Formal and Informal Language  1 Language and Codes  2 Formal and Casual Language  3 Playing Bingo  4 Using Clichés  5 Clichés, Banality and Evil  6 Tags and Lies 9 Paying Attention  1 Pancakes and Attention  2 Some Relevant Questions – Or Not?  3 Attention Control – An Employee’s Warning  4 Sharing, Space and Time  5 Redirecting Attention  6 Concentrating  7 Listening to Learn  8 A Circle Exercise – Individual and Group Attention  9 Multitasking 10 Storytelling  1 Telling Stories  2 Giving Feedback  3 Levinas’s Ideas  4 “Engaged” Stories  5 Keeping Hope Alive  6 Political Stories  7 The Uses of History  8 Some Welsh Examples 11 Leadership and Group Development  1 Why Leaders?  2 Leadership Styles and Situations  3 A Group Leadership Grid  4 Small Groups  5 Facilitating Meetings – Some Principles  6 More Suggestions for Groups  7 The Circle of Voices Exercise  8 Team Talking  9 Two More Exercises  10 Summing Up 12 Social Action Practices  1 Action Practices and Strategies  2 Overview 13 Challenging Power  1 Types of Power  2 Castells’s Grounded Theory of Power  3 A Pioneering Exemplar  4 Power and Politics  5 A Dynamic, Positive Force?  6 Are the Net and Old Protest Habits Enough?  7 Students Are Activists, Too Postscript: Covid-19 and Beyond References Index

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