Engaged Publics

Community Empowerment and Collective Organizing in Times of Crisis
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-5292-5031-2
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 210 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 472 g

Reihe: Observing Organisations

This book presents an ethnography of a community empowerment programme called Big Local. Following three community groups as they navigated the Covid-19 pandemic, Bayfield offers timely insights into how groups change when crisis hits, and explores implications for our collective capacity to address society’s most pressing problems.

The book introduces the concept of ‘group habitus’ for interpreting group life, showing how societally dominant ‘cultures of organizing’ shape spaces of collective deliberation and action. A close-up examination of how people work together, this book offers a new way of understanding sociopolitical inequalities.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bayfield, Imogen

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Organisationstheorie, Organisationssoziologie, Organisationspsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Staatsbürgerkunde, Staatsbürgerschaft, Zivilgesellschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction

2. The Community Empowerment Paradigm: A Genealogy

3. ‘Group Habitus’: A Conceptual Tool

4. Doing Research With Three Community Groups

5. Two ‘Organizing Logics’

6. Deliberative Styles

7. ‘Emotional Habitus’

8. Future Imaginaries

9. Discussion: Cultivating Engaged Publics

Über Autor(innen)

Imogen Bayfield is a Research Fellow at Surrey University.