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Community Is the Way|Aimée Knight

Community Is the Way : Engaged Writing and Designing for Transformative Change

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How can we design for equity and justice in our community partnerships? This field guide offers a vision for enacting social justice with community partners. Working from a community's resources and strengths toward the goal of building its internal capacity, this book considers how actions such as grassroots activism, decolonization efforts, co-resistance movements, and social change initiatives can support reciprocity and mutuality. Community is the Way provides examples of concrete, situated action grounded in disciplinary knowledge and extensive fieldwork. Reflecting on her experiences operating a community writing program, author Aim e Knight argues that the equity-based approach described in this book requires a commitment to interrogating how power, oppression, resistance, privilege, penalties, benefits, and harms are built into the systems we seek to change. Knight offers a community-led approach that builds bridges of understanding and support and charts a path toward transformative change.

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  • ISBN-13: 9781646423149
  • ISBN-10: 1646423143
  • Publisher: University Press of Colorado
  • Publish Date: December 2022
  • Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.98 x 0.47 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.48 pounds
  • Page Count: 142

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