This article explores the applicability of a disability rights organizing framework in different contexts with consideration given to the local characteristics of civil society, specifically in Nicaragua and Uruguay.
Author: Jamie Borgan
Transcending Civic Disjunctures: Transnational Youth Organizing in a Community-Based Educational Space
This article explores youth organizing around issues of immigration in transnational spaces, specifically with Latinx immigrants and Muslim refugees.
Building an Airplane While Flying It: One Community’s Experience with Community Food Transformation
This article looks at community coalition building with food policy councils.
”Love and Prayer Sustain Our Work”, Building Collective Power, Health, and Healing as the Community Health Board Coalition
This article examines the work of a BIPOC led health-focused community coalition during the COVID-19 pandemic
Critical Optimism: Reimagining Rural Communities through Libraries
This article situates rural librarianship within an organizing framework for change and discusses applications of community engagement tools and measures of impact aligned with social well-being.
Social Capital in Community Organizing for Land Protection and Food Security
This article explores the role of social capital in community organizing in Thailand to protect local farmland.
Stories of self, us, and now: Narrative and Power for Health Equity in Grassroots Community Organizing
This article explores processes of narrative change in community organizing to promote health equity.
Reflection: Working toward Peaceful, Healthy Communities
This article examines a community-organizing based approach to dealing with family violence in Minnesota.
Fighting Time and Dreaming Time: Struggle for Right to Remain in LA
This article examines housing precarity in Los Angeles and ways in which community organizing can be influenced by Indigenous movements.
Systems Over Service: Changing Systems of Inequality through Congressional Political Engagement
This article examines a model of direct political organizing by a congregation-based community organization.
