PhD Student, Kanoko Kamata publishes a Japanese book, "Community Organizing: Five Steps to Create the Future We Want"

 

This book aims to inspire people who feel helpless to change the status quo for hopeful future by showing the history of social movements in Japan, practical explanation on how to take action collectively (community organizing) and real cases of community organizing in Japan. In order to make community organizing theory accessible to public, the author set up a fictional story that fifth grader learn community organizing for their school change. 

"Community Organizing: Five steps to create the future we want” was just published on November 12.