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Relationships De Confianza and the Organisation of Collective Social Action

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Relationships De Confianza and the Organisation of Collective Social Action
Abstract/Description
This article examines the social and cultural organisation of learning and community change in a largely new immigrant and under-resourced neighbourhood in the US Situating our investigation within a local social movement for food justice, we use an ethnographic lens to study how learning is made to become consequential across relationships between people, across activities, and contexts. Our four-year ethnographic study highlights how community health workers (promotoras) build relationships de confianza as a tool that mediated new forms of action in the focal neighbourhood. We demonstrate how relationships de confianza have laid a foundation to (a) mediate social networks to organise for change and (b) promote solidarity through the response to urgent needs, creating a more holistic model of community health and sustainability. Drawing attention to relational resources foregrounds social actors and their ingenuity, promoting equity-oriented scale-making.
Date
2018
In publication
Ethnography and Education
Volume
13
Issue
1
Pages
84-99
Resource type
en
Resource status/form
en
Scholarship genre
en
Open access/full-text available
en Yes
Peer reviewed
en Yes
ISSN
1745-7823
Citation
Teeters, L. A., & Jurow, A. S. (2018). Relationships De Confianza and the Organisation of Collective Social Action. Ethnography and Education, 13(1), 84–99. https://doi.org/10.1080/17457823.2016.1271992

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