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Power Power in Cities – Forthcoming late 2025
People Power in Cities by Amanda Tattersall and Kurt Iveson travels to cities around the world in search of…
Organizing is Not a Silver Bullet
This is a peer-reviewed article that seeks to reframe community organisng – not as a superior form of…
Big Ideas Podcast – Living out your mental illness in public paves the way to lasting change with Amanda Tattersall
Amanda Tattersall, co-founder of the campaigning organisation Get-Up, speaks powerfully about her experience of living with bipolar disorder…
Grace Tame—ChangeMakers Chat
It certainly feels like this is a big year for thinking creatively and deeply about how to make…
Endure or peter out? Here’s what Northern Rivers organisers and Stop Adani can teach us about organising climate groups
Over the last decade, several groups in Australia have successfully mobilised against fossil fuel interests. But which ones have gone…
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…
Why Organizers need Mobilizers and Mobilizers need Organizers
In an “ecosystem” approach, different theories of change – like mobilizing and organizing – can reinforce and strengthen…
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…
To get to net zero, policymakers need to listen to communities. Here’s what they can learn from places like Geelong
Learning lessons from building a community-led climate transition agenda in Geelong.
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…
