{"product_id":"empowerment-9780367728380","title":"Empowerment","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis will be of great interest to advanced students and scholars in a wide variety of fields, particularly social work, public heal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of figures; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Continuums of Power; 3. Individual Empowerment; 4. Occupy Wall Street Movement: A Case Study; 5. Collaboration; 6. Counterscript: An Interlude; 7. Solidarity; 8. Civil Resistance; 9. Ecologies of Empowerment? Appendix; Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018046964055,"sku":"9780367728380","price":25.38,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780367728380.jpg?v=1750775457","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/empowerment-9780367728380","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}