Organization And Spontaneity

Author : Kimathi Mohammed
Publisher : On Our Own Authority!
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-29
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 0985890924

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Organization and Spontaneity by Kimathi Mohammed Pdf

Kimathi Mohammed, a Michigan based activist who was a native of Savannah, Georgia deserves to be recognized as among the most original political theorists of the Black Power movement in the United States. "Organization & Spontaneity," originally published in 1974, was a response to key contradictions of the late 1960s and early 1970s Black freedom movement, manifested in the Black Panther Party and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers. In contrast to many political thinkers of the Civil Rights and Black Power era, Mohammed's work emphasized the self-organization of ordinary African Americans and their liberating, self-directed activism. Mohammed placed forward his critique of would-be Black vanguards at a time when most prominent Black Power activists--even the socialist advocates among them--were beginning to embrace electoral politics and systems of patronage which would ultimately suppress any independent Black political power. "Organization & Spontaneity" anticipated new obstacles in the Post-Civil Rights era, and continues to point the way out for our own place and time. This updated volume includes an additional essay by the author documenting CLR James' influence on the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, as well as a new introduction by Modibo Kadalie and an afterword by Matthew Quest.

Author : Murray Bookchin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1975*
Category : Communism
ISBN : LCCN:77364232

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On Spontaneity and Organisation by Murray Bookchin Pdf

Author : Patricia Shaw,Ralph Stacey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2006-05-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134266241

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Experiencing Spontaneity, Risk & Improvisation in Organizational Life by Patricia Shaw,Ralph Stacey Pdf

The perspective of complex responsive processes draws on analogies from the complexity sciences, bringing in the essential characteristics of human agents, understood to emerge in social processes of communicative interaction and power relating. The result is a way of thinking about life in organizations that focuses attention on how organizational members cope with the unknown as they perpetually create organizational futures together. This book introduces and explores the possible meanings of the idea of ‘working live’. It makes sense of the sense-making experience itself, drawing attention to the way ideas and concepts emerge ‘live’ in all conversations in organizations. An appreciation of the open-ended, improvisational nature of ongoing human communication becomes key to such an understanding. This book will be of great value to readers looking for reflective accounts of real life experiences in organizations, rather than further prescriptions of what life in organizations ought to be.

Author : Rodrigo Nunes
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781788733854

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Neither Vertical nor Horizontal by Rodrigo Nunes Pdf

A decade ago, a wave of mass mobilisations described as "horizontal" and "leaderless" swept the planet, holding the promise of real democracy and justice for the 99%. Many saw its subsequent ebb as proof of the need to go back to what was once called "the question of organisation". For something so often described as essential, however, political organisation remains a surprisingly under-theorised field. In this book, Rodrigo Nunes proposes to remedy that lack by starting again from scratch. Redefining the terms of the problem, he rejects the confusion between organisation and any of the forms it can take, such as the party, and argues that organisation must be understood as always supposing a diverse ecology of different initiatives and organisational forms. Drawing from a wide array of sources and traditions that include cybernetics, poststructuralism, network theory and Marxism, Nunes develops a grammar that eschews easy oppositions between "verticalism" and "horizontalism", centralisation and dispersion, and offers a fresh approach to enduring issues like spontaneity, leadership, democracy, strategy, populism, revolution, and the relationship between movements and parties.

Author : Antonio Negri
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231519427

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Factory of Strategy by Antonio Negri Pdf

Factory of Strategy is the last of Antonio Negri's major political works to be translated into English. Rigorous and accessible, it is both a systematic inquiry into the development of Lenin's thought and an encapsulation of a critical shift in Negri's theoretical trajectory. Lenin is the only prominent politician of the modern era to seriously question the "withering away" and "extinction" of the state, and like Marx, he recognized the link between capitalism and modern sovereignty and the need to destroy capitalism and reconfigure the state. Negri refrains from portraying Lenin as a ferocious dictator enforcing the proletariat's reappropriation of wealth, nor does he depict him as a mere military tool of a vanguard opposed to the Ancien Régime. Negri instead champions Leninism's ability to adapt to different working-class configurations in Russia, China, Latin America, and elsewhere. He argues that Lenin developed a new political figuration in and beyond modernity and an effective organization capable of absorbing different historical conditions. He ultimately urges readers to recognize the universal application of Leninism today and its potential to institutionally—not anarchically—dismantle centralized power.

Author : Patricia Shaw,Ralph Stacey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2006-05-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134266258

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Experiencing Spontaneity, Risk & Improvisation in Organizational Life by Patricia Shaw,Ralph Stacey Pdf

Introducing and exploring the possible meanings of the idea of 'working live', this valuable book makes sense of the sense-making experience, drawing attention to the way ideas and concepts emerge 'live' in all conversations in organizations.

Author : Kimathi Mohammed
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : African Americans
ISBN : OCLC:41667048

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Organization and Spontaneity by Kimathi Mohammed Pdf

Author : Karl-Dieter Opp,Peter Voss,Christiane Gern
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0472105752

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Origins of a Spontaneous Revolution by Karl-Dieter Opp,Peter Voss,Christiane Gern Pdf

Explains the extraordinary collapse of Communist East Germany

Author : Gary Roth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:470836259

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The rise of spontaneity and organization in the labor movement by Gary Roth Pdf

Author : Joel Nickels
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780816676088

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Poetry of the Possible by Joel Nickels Pdf

The abstractions of modernism reimagined as figurations of collective self-organization

Author : Ken N. Kamoche,Miguel Pina e Cunha,Joao Vieira da Cunha
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Organizational change
ISBN : 0415261759

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Organizational Improvisation by Ken N. Kamoche,Miguel Pina e Cunha,Joao Vieira da Cunha Pdf

Thought-provoking papers on the relatively new field of organizational improvisation, which consider the pressures on organizations to react continually to today's ever-changing environment.

Author : Zhiyi Yang
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-24
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9789004298538

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Dialectics of Spontaneity by Zhiyi Yang Pdf

In Dialectics of Spontaneity, Zhiyi Yang examines the aesthetic and ethical theories of Su Shi, the primary poet, artist, and statesman of Northern Song.

Author : Nancy Nyquist Potter
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-25
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780191546174

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Mapping the Edges and the In-between by Nancy Nyquist Potter Pdf

Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a diagnosis given to ten percent of all those seen in outpatient mental health facilities and twenty percent of those seen in inpatient psychiatric units. This is a significant number of people in the Western world. Yet many of the core concepts and symptoms that underlie this diagnosis are questionable. Many of the attitudes and actions of carers are based on assumptions about those with BPD that cry out for analysis, with both cultural and gender norms interacting with clinical diagnosis and treatment, to the detriment of both carers and patients. This book considers how we diagnose BPD, looking at the key constructs: identity disturbance, inappropriate or excessive anger, unstable relationships, impulsivity, self-injurious behaviour, and manipulativity. It starts by looking at the cultural and gender assumptions and norms behind BPD, drawing upon philosophical, clinical, anthropological, and sociological literature. Combining philosophical analysis with clinical experience and patients' writings, it clarifies the constructs so that the reader can understand the messiness and complexity that frames this diagnosis and treatment. After examining the current state of these constructs, and their effects on carer/patient interactions, Part II sees an application of virtue theory to therapeutic treatment with BPD patients. It looks at three virtues that are particularly important for clinicians and other carers to cultivate when working with BPD patients: trustworthiness, the virtue of giving uptake, and empathy. It argues that, in their absence, not only are clinicians' attitudes harmful to patients but that the status of the diagnosis is actually compromised. Mapping the Edges and the In-Between presents a compelling argument that Borderline Personality Disorder needs to be approached in a new light - one that will benefit patients.

Author : Thomas Jay Oord
Publisher : Brazos Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441212344

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Defining Love by Thomas Jay Oord Pdf

Some scientific studies suggest that human beings are innately selfish and that Christian virtues like self-sacrifice are a delusion. In this intriguing volume, esteemed theologian Thomas Jay Oord interprets the scientific research and responds from a theological and philosophical standpoint, providing a state-of-the-art overview of love and altruism studies. He offers a definition of love that is scientifically, theologically, and philosophically adequate. As Oord helps readers arrive at a clearer understanding of the definition, recipients, and forms of love, he mounts a case for Christian agape and ultimately for a loving God.

Author : Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Political Science
ISBN : PSU:000055979474

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What is to be Done? by Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin Pdf