Brian Murphy

Transforming the Ourselves, Transforming the World

An Open Conspiracy for Social Change

Buch

This book is for all those-community workers, adult educators, social activists of every kind-who want to overcome pessimism and play a part in changing society in the direction of peace, justice and dignity for all human beings. As author Brian Murphy points out, many of us are pessimistic about our ability to change the world when confronted by the powerful forces of big corporations and big government. Murphy reveals the social and personal dilemmas which hold people back from social engagement, and argues that the various constraints we face can be overcome.In this new edition, David Austin explains in his Introduction why this book, firs… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-988832-93-7
EAN: 9781988832937
Produktnummer: 36182501
Verlag: Daraja Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Seitenangabe: 220 S.
Masse: H15.1 cm x B22.9 cm x D1.8 cm 326 g
Gewicht: 326
Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)

Über den Autor

Brian Murphy is an independent analyst, organizer, educator, and writer. Until his retirement at the end of 2006, Brian was a member of the staff team of the Canadian international social justice organization Inter Pares, where his work focused on policy development and programme support for Inter Pares' com- mon cause action in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Canada. He also served from 1983 to 2004 on the governing body of the Project Counselling Service, an inter- national NGO based in Costa Rica, which provided political and material sup- port to the self-organization of people and communities dislocated by violence and repression in Latin America. Brian served on the Advisory Committee for the Institute in Management and Community Development at Concordia University (Montréal) from 1992 until it closed in 2010, where he was active as an external advisor and seminar leader on issues of social activism and citizen participation. Brian remains an active member on the Steering Committee of the Ottawa-based International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group-ICLMG (https://iclmg.ca/about- us/), which he helped create in 2002; and is a founding member of the Board of Directors of AidWatch Canada, based in Black Rock, Nova Scotia (http://aid- watchcanada.ca/about/). Brian is the author of numerous articles on global social justice, civil society organization, and the process of social change. He currently writes at MurphysLog.ca.David AustinDavid Austin is the author of Dread Poetry and Freedom: Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Unfinished Revolution (Pluto, 2018), Fear of a Black Nation: Race, Sex, and Security in Sixties Montreal (Between the Lines, 2013) and the editor of Moving Against the System, The 1968 Congress of Black Writers and the Making of Global Consciousness (Pluto, 2018). He is the winner of the 2014 Casa de las Americas Prize. He is the producer of a three-part radio programme on CLR James, The Black Jacobin (https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/c-l-r-james-the-black-jacobin-1.5863866).