Building Communities of Trust: Creative Work for Social Change

Building Communities of Trust: Creative Work for Social Change is the winner of the 2022 Hearten Book Awards for Inspiring & Uplifting Non-Fiction. It offers pathways to building trust in a range of situations and communities, with rich examples from Ann Feldman's life and social-impact journey with nonprofit Artistic Circles. The book explains how the success or failure of social-impact initiatives depends on power struggles, funding, interpersonal misunderstandings, identity crises, fears, and stereotypes, and aims to help aspiring changemakers develop strategies for sustainable social-change projects.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 132 pages
Publication date: 29 January 2024
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Winner of the 2022 Hearten Book Awards for Inspiring & Uplifting Non-Fiction, Building Communities of Trust: Creative Work for Social Change offers pathways to building trust in a range of situations and communities. Drawing upon a combination of ethnographic research and media and communication theory, the book provides rich examples from the author's own life and social-impact journey with nonprofit Artistic Circles, along with supplemental case studies from interviews with 20 to 30-year-olds. The author aims to address how to create vibrant, trust-based societies and determine what works and what doesn't while advancing towards creating social impact. These case studies and shared experiences from real-life media projects across 30 years reveal behind-the-scenes stories of challenges, conflicts, and resolutions in global impact efforts ranging from women's empowerment to water access. The book explains how the success or failure of social-impact initiatives depends on power struggles, funding, interpersonal misunderstandings, identity crises, fears, and stereotypes. The book's goal is to help aspiring changemakers develop strategies for sustainable social-change projects. It serves as a guide for undergraduates, graduate students, and high-school upperclassmen in environmental studies, business, sociology, gender and sexuality, cross-cultural studies, music, religion, and communications and media. For more on Artistic Circles and Ann E. Feldman's work, please visit https://www.buildingcommunitiesoftrust.org/. The Open Access version of this book has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mono/10.4324/9781003296423/building-communities-trust-ann-feldman.

Weight: 190g
Dimension: 215 x 138 x 10 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032283494