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The rise of the extreme right globally, the crisis of capitalism
and the withdrawal of all but the most punitive arms of the state
are having a disastrous impact on disabled people's lives. This is
the political context in which the concept of 'disability praxis'
is set. What then is its relevance to disruptive theory and
practice? Bob Williams-Findlay offers an account of the
transformative potential of disability praxis and how it relates to
disabled politics and activism. He addresses different sites of
struggle, showing how disabled people have advanced radical theory
into the implementation of policies. Examining the growth of the
global Disabled People's Movement during the 1960s,
Williams-Findlay shows how a new social discourse emerged that
shifted the focus away from seeing disability as restrictions on an
individual's body, towards understanding the impact of restrictions
created by capitalist relations. He shines light on the contested
definitions of disability, asking us to reconsider how different
socio-political contexts produce varied understandings of social
oppression and how we may play a role in transforming definitions.
Systems Concepts in Action: A Practitioner's Toolkit explores the
application of systems ideas to investigate, evaluate, and
intervene in complex and messy situations. The text serves as a
field guide, with each chapter representing a method for describing
and analyzing; learning about; or changing and managing a challenge
or set of problems. The book is the first to cover in detail such a
wide range of methods from so many different parts of the systems
field. The book's Introduction gives an overview of systems
thinking, its origins, and its major subfields. In addition, the
introductory text to each of the book's three parts provides
background information on the selected methods. Systems Concepts in
Action may serve as a workbook, offering a selection of tools that
readers can use immediately. The approaches presented can also be
investigated more profoundly, using the recommended readings
provided. While these methods are not intended to serve as
"recipes," they do serve as a menu of options from which to choose.
Readers are invited to combine these instruments in a creative
manner in order to assemble a mix that is appropriate for their own
strategic needs.
Systems Concepts in Action: A Practitioner's Toolkit explores the
application of systems ideas to investigate, evaluate, and
intervene in complex and messy situations. The text serves as a
field guide, with each chapter representing a method for describing
and analyzing; learning about; or changing and managing a challenge
or set of problems. The book is the first to cover in detail such a
wide range of methods from so many different parts of the systems
field. The book's Introduction gives an overview of systems
thinking, its origins, and its major subfields. In addition, the
introductory text to each of the book's three parts provides
background information on the selected methods. Systems Concepts in
Action may serve as a workbook, offering a selection of tools that
readers can use immediately. The approaches presented can also be
investigated more profoundly, using the recommended readings
provided. While these methods are not intended to serve as
"recipes," they do serve as a menu of options from which to choose.
Readers are invited to combine these instruments in a creative
manner in order to assemble a mix that is appropriate for their own
strategic needs.
Wicked problems are complex, ill-structured, human problem
situations. This book will help you design an inquiry and
intervention in such messy, wicked situations. It does so by
guiding you through the steps and stages of a systemic process that
addresses your own wicked problem. Limited references to systems
theory and history acquaint you with the key principles to work
wicked problems on your own. The focus of this book on systems
thinking is on a critically important question that often goes
unanswered: "Where do I start?" It also provides numerous tips and
tricks to keep you on the right track. You will find that the
systems approaches in this book will not only help you to address
wicked problems yourselves, but also that it will give you a basic
grasp of what is involved in other systems methods. Few other
investments in your intellectual toolbox could claim the same.
What makes for a successful business? From poverty to success, 21
business professionals from Staten Island's Business Guild 2 tell
their stories. They describe what worked for them, and
occasionally, what didn't, from finding your own course into the
profession you love and escaping the grind of a job you don't. Most
started from scratch, with nothing. All turned negatives into
positives. They have all reached a satisfying place in their lives.
The book written in free style includes poems and short stories and
reflects the author's experiences as he worked as an engineering
consultant/manager in London, Jamaica and the USA over a period of
fifty years. The book is not about engineering, but rather about
people, events and circumstances observed and or experienced as he
navigated his way through diverse places and situations over that
period of time. The writings include romantic, cultural,
sociological and political subjects. Each poem or story has its own
natural emotional dynamics ranging from hate, love, lust, abysmal
ignorance or arrogance, beauty of nature, beauty of the soul. Like
in the case of movies that embellish books of authors so as to
capture the imagination of the viewer, so does this book in
embellishing those poems and short stories to peak the interest of
the reader. As in the case of broadcasting or voice over work, this
book should be read with emphasis to reflect the emotion embedded
in the words.
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