Michael Brownstein, Alex Madva

Somebody Should Do Something

How Anyone Can Help Create Social Change

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A novel and scientific approach to creating transformative social change and the surprising ways that each of us can help make a real difference.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: MIT Press Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 165mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 566g
• ISBN-13: 9780262049788
• ISBN-10: 0262049783
• Artikelnr.: 72867079

Autorenporträt

Michael Brownstein, Alex Madva, and Daniel Kelly

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part One: The Problem of Either/Or Thinking About Social Change
Chapter One. You Do You: The Misdirected Individualist History of Climate
Activism
Chapter Two. Structural Injustice: Why Conversations about Racism Become
Conversations about Real Estate
Chapter Three. Change Against the Machine: Structural Change in the Public
Mind
Part Two: A Better Picture of Social Change
Chapter Four. Hidden Histories of Social Change: People Who Change Systems
that Change People
Chapter Five. Unlearning the Habit of Racism
Chapter Six. A Both/And Picture of People
Chapter Seven. We Are Each Other’s Situation
Chapter Eight. Cascades, Loops, and Tipping Points
Part Three: Putting It Into Practice
Chapter Nine. Social Movements and Structural Change
Chapter Ten. Lighting the Spark: Social Identity, Collective Action, and
Making a Difference
Chapter Eleven. Building the Blaze: Coalitional Politics for Interdependent
Individuals
Chapter Twelve. Facing the Fire: Understanding the Social World in a
Both/And Way
Chapter Thirteen. Keeping the Fire Going: The Gloriously Unsexy Work of
Implementing and Sustaining Change
Chapter Fourteen. Fighting From Where You Stand: Finding Your Role in
Social Change
Conclusion. Time Doesn’t Tell. We Tell Time
Acknowledgements
Bibliography