Organizing for New York - Incite at Columbia University
Organizing for New York
Using a respondent-driven sampling design, the goal of the project was to understand the sets of understandings and practices that make organizers most effective at social change work, and to see how these understandings and practices differ across different sub-networks of organizers.
As a part of this project, researchers asked social change leaders to identify those leaders whose work they most respect. They then asked the same question, iteratively, to those to whom they were referred. Over the course of several iterations, they have been able to “map” the field of social change leaders in the city.
Subsequent projects related to organizing for New York included identifying and interviewing intersectional organizers to understand how their position impacts their ability to make social change.
Related Works
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Adam Reich, "The Organizational Trace of an Insurgent Moment: Occupy Wall Street and New York City’s Social Movement Field, 2004 to 2015", Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World, March 22, 2017
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