Research
Amanda Tattersall’s published, peer-reviewed academic research papers in journals across the world from across geography, industrial relations, politics, sociology and other disciplines.
Organizing is Not a Silver Bullet
This is a peer-reviewed article that seeks to reframe community organisng – not as a superior form of…
Organising Together Across Difference: Relational Experiments in Community Organising
In a world of increasing polarisation, this report documents an 18 month research project that analysed how Citizens…
Prefiguring Pragmatically? Prefigurative Politics and the Constellation of People Power Strategies for Winning Affordable Housing in Cape Town.
This is an academic peer-reviewed article about the social change strategy called ‘prefiguration’ which is the practice of…
Democratising Cities: introduction (special feature)
This is an introduction to a peer-reviewed special feature in the journal City. This piece provides a theorisation…
A Real Deal for Gladstone: Community Listening Report to Shape Economic and Social Transition
This Community Report documents “Listening Campaign” run in Gladstone Queensland, the first step towards creating a community-led agenda…
A Real Deal for Geelong: Community Listening Report for Climate Transition
This report outlines a new approach to generating strategies for climate transition, created through a community-led agenda built…
Urban people power strategies in a connected world: exploring the patterns of practice, exchange, translation and learning.
This article looks at the spread and transmission of different forms of people power across the world.
School strike for climate are leading the way: how their people power strategies are generating distinctive pathways for leadership development
Since November 2018, Australian high school climate strikers have become leaders in the movement for climate action, giving…
People Power Strategies in Contemporary Housing Movements.
This is a peer-reviewed article that explores different ways in which social movements and urban coalitions are seeking…
A Real Deal: a research action agenda for transforming Australia in and beyond the pandemic
This Community Report documents our “Listening Campaign,” the first step towards creating a community-led agenda for economic and…
How do we build power in coalition? Rethinking union-community coalition types 12 years on.
This is article is an invited contribution based on a piece about coalition building first published in this…
The global spread of community organizing: how ‘Alinsky-style’ community organizing travelled to Australia and what we learnt?
This is an academic peer-reviewed article about the spread of community organising to Australia. It documents conceptually and…
