The Advocacy Iceberg

Ep 39 – Sarah Stachowiak, Anne Gienapp and Nikki Kalra from ORS Impact talk about their latest report, looking at the over-use and mis-use of movement language, why this is a problem and what large scale social change strategies it might make more sense to be thinking about Report is here, along with the some stand-alone […]

Ep 38 – Tatiana Gavarito talks about how reparative justice underpins her activism. This is the crowdfunder for Apoyo Comunitario that we talk about. Tatiana is also involved in creating this funding pool to support individuals and communities working towards racial justice.

Lee Webster talks about feminist leadership. We look at ActionAid’s journey towards implementing feminist leadership principles across the global federation – and what it means for culture and behaviours as well as for programmes and campaigns. There’s more about how ActionAid UK is practising feminism and the feminist behaviours framework here

Ep 36 Peter Macfadyen talks about Independents for Frome and their experience as a collective of independents running the local town council, trying to do local politics differently. We talk about their approach, what they learnt along the way, and how others might build, and are building, on their experiences

Ep 35 – Anthea Lawson from Perspectiva discusses how we should see activism as sitting within what it is trying to change, and how this creates all kinds of entanglements for activists to navigate. We focus on how activists and ‘non-activists’ interact, and what that reveals, and some of the ways it might go better. […]

Ep 34 – Natasha Adams talks about social movements, the different actors involved in them and what kinds of strategies make sense in the current climate of uncertainty. In that context, we talk about how social movements can understand and address hegemonic power. More from Natasha on this and other subjects at thinkingdoingchanging.com

Ep 33 – Stephanie Leonard from Act Build Change talks about community organising theory and practice, from Saul Alinsky to Rules for Revolutionaries, via Jane McAlevey and Bob Moses (and some others).

Ep 32 – Habiba Nabatu talks about the ‘NGOs Reimagined’ initiative, which is calling on international NGOs to tackle the ecological, economic and social crises that we face holistically and in ways that take into account history and power.

Ali Goldsworthy, the founder and CEO of the Depolarization Project, talks about polarisation in society and why and how we might think more about depolarising, and the role that campaigning and communications does and could play. More about the Depolarization Project here Home

Ep 30 – Rhonda Schlangen talks about a paper we have written together and has just been published: No Royal Road. It explores the tension at the heart of advocacy, and advocacy evaluation, between wanting clear answers and the inherent uncertainties around how social and political change really happens. Recognising this tension, we set out […]