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Remaking Democracy

How We Make the Worlds We Want

AvDanielle Chynoweth,Elizabeth Adams

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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How can we empower ourselves and our communities to make lasting social change?Remaking Democracy is a guidebook for social change. We are at a watershed moment of rising fascism and rising seas: our institutions are failing us, health crises ravage our communities, and the natural world has been thrust into catastrophic climate freefall. Despair threatens to overtake hope in our visions of the future. In these pages, organizers and teachers Danielle Chynoweth and Elizabeth Adams offer analysis and strategy for sustainable transformation. This accessible and practical resource presents case studies alongside a design toolkit that equips readers to participate in creating the abundant worlds we want. Remaking Democracy empowers us—individually and in groups—to make lasting social change on every level, so that we who are affected by systems can become their creators.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-05-05
Mått:152 x 228 x 23 mm
Vikt:399 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:208
Förlag:Common Notions
ISBN:9781945335518

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Danielle Chynoweth is a local-to-national leader in the Media Justice and Housing Rights movements. As an elected public servant, she has designed alternative crisis response, family shelter, and Solidarity Gardens, and spearheaded public arts, community broadband, solar affordable housing, and police oversight. She was the Organizing Director for Media Justice and cofounded the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center. She teaches social change at the University of Illinois, the School for Designing a Society, and internationally.Elizabeth Adams, PhD, is a composer, teacher, and caregiver, who has worked at the intersection of art, education, and organizing for over twenty years. As a knowledge worker intent on creating the cultural change that will support social justice, she co-instigated Julie & Elizabeth’s Anti-Capitalist Concert Series, and organized with the Crown Heights Tenant Union, Free University NYC, and What A Neighborhood! She has taught at Columbia University and the School for Designing a Society.

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Preface by Dr. Safiya NobleIntroduction1 What Time is it on the Clock of the World? Living in Contradiction2 How to Make Change in Systems: The Spiral of Change3 Champaign Urbana Citizens for Peace and Justice: Organizing Against Racialized Police ViolencePart I4 Movements Begin with the Telling of Untold Stories5 Gather to Share Stories6 As violence is done to me, so violence is done to them7 What’s Your Problem?8 Formulating Problems and Looking Systems Together9 Campaign for Prison Phone Justice: Storytelling to Confront Mass Incarceration (Case Study)Part II10 Desire as Orientation: New Criteria for New Societies11 Making Desire Statements12 School for Designing a Society: Experiments in Education & Art (Case Study) Part III13 Contradictions as Points of Leverage14 Formulating Contradictions to Find Points of Leverage15 Cunningham Township: Ending Homelessness in Your Hometown (Case Study)Part IV16 Designing Care for a Loved One (Case Study)17 Beginning to Design: Essential Tools18 Design Principles19 Additional Design Tools20 Designing Health Care Systems Intensives (Case Study)Part V21 The World is Always Being Made: Reflect, Learn, Revise, Repeat22 Urbana Champaign Independent Media Center (Case Study)23 When Your Project is a… work of art and other domainsAfterward – Further Provocation