Library

Global Change Leaders

Secondary Reading List (32K pdf)

Political-Contextual Analysis and Self-Leadership

• AWID - Association for Women's Rights in Development
• Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID). (2004). Intersectionality: A tool for gender and economic justice. Toronto: AWID.
• Batliwala, S. (2011). Feminist leadership for social transformation: Clearing the conceptual cloud. New Delhi: CREA. (2.99 Mb pdf)
• Batliwala, S. (2012). Changing their world: Concepts and practices of women's movements. (2^nd ed.). Toronto: AWID. (1.12 Mb pdf)
• Chandler, D. (2008). The impact of social modeling, cultural values, and support systems on the leadership development of emerging global women leaders. Advancing Women in Leadership Journal, 25.
• DAWN - Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era
• Gregorc, A. in DePorter, B. (n.d.). Check your personal thinking style.
• Ramdas, K. (2011, April). Radical women, embracing tradition [Video file]. (18:40 min.)
• Simon-Kumar, R. (2011). The analytics of "gendering" the post-neoliberal state. Social Politics, 18(3), 441-468.
• Rosser-Mims, D. (2010). Black feminism: An epistemological framework for exploring how race and gender impact black women’s leadership development. Advancing Women in Leadership Journal, 30(15), 1-8. (131K pdf)
• United Nations. (2011). Progress of the world's women: In pursuit of justice. New York: United Nations. (9.42 Mb pdf)
• UN Women, United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women
• World Bank. (2011). World development report 2012: Gender equality and development. Washington, DC: World Bank.
• Wujec, T. (2011). Build a tower, build a team [Video file]. (6:52 min.)

Social Innovation

• Ashoka Foundation
• Below, C. L., & Tripp, K. D. (2010). Freeing the social entrepreneur. Stanford Social Innovation Review, 7, 36-41.
• Bojer, M., Knuth, M., & Magner, C. (2006). Mapping dialogue: A research project profiling dialogue tools and processes for social change. Johannesburg, South Africa: Pioneers of Change Associates. (1.3 Mb pdf)
• Davis, S. (2002). Social entrepreneurship: Towards an entrepreneurial culture for social and economic development. Prepared for the Youth Employment Summit, September 7-11. (260K pdf)
• Guijt, I. (2010). Rethinking monitoring in a complex messy partnership in Brazil. Development in Practice, 20(8), 1027-1044. (StFX access only).
• Harvard Business Review, full text: 1922-current. (StFX access only).
  • Drucker, P. (1998). The discipline of innovation. Harvard Business Review, 76(6), 3-8.
  • Fuda, P., & Badham, R. (2011). Fire, snowball, mask, movie: How leaders spark and sustain change. Harvard Business Review, 89(11), 145-148.
• Leviner, N., Crutchfield, L. R., & Wells, D. (2007). Understanding the impact of social entrepreneurs: Ashoka's answer to the challenge of measuring effectiveness. London: Ashoka Foundation.
• Malhotra, A., Schulte, J., Patel, P. & Petesch, P. (2009). Innovation for women’s empowerment and gender equality. Washington, DC: International Centre for Research on Women.
• Mathie, A. & Cunningham, G. (Eds.). (2008). From clients to citizens: Communities changing the course of their own development. Rugby, UK: Practical Action. Library has hard copy: 307.112 M426f.
• Michalko, M. (2012, April 28). How geniuses think: Thumbnail descriptions of thinking strategies used by creative geniuses [Web log post]. The Creativity Post.
• SEWA - Self Employed Women's Association
• Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship
• Stanford Social Innovation Review
• Schmid, H. (2006). Leadership styles and leadership change in human and community service organizations. Non-Profit Management & Leadership, 17(2), 179-194. (StFX access only).
• Talgem, I. (2009, October). Lead like the great conductors [Video file]. (20:51 min.)
• University of Michigan. (2011). Understanding the impact of positive deviance in work organizations.

Citizen-Driven Development

• Batliwala, S. (2012). Changing their world: Concepts and practices of women's movements. (2^nd ed.). Toronto: AWID. (1.12 Mb pdf)
• Cameron, C., Ghosh, S. & Eaton, S. (2010). Facilitating communities in designing and using their own community health impact assessment tool (Draft). (75K pdf).
• Citizen Driven Health Impact Assessment certificate courselinks provided by the Marie Michael Library.
• Citizenship DRC, Development Research Centre: Citizenship, Participation and Accountability, portal of country-based studies on citizenship, social movements, state-civil society and accountability.
• Coady International Institute. (n.d.). ABCD - case studies of successful asset-based and citizen-led development.
• Cunningham, G. & Fiander, K. (2008). By their own hands: 200 years of building community in St. Andrews, Nova Scotia (Occasional Paper 7). Antigonish: Coady International Institute. (504K pdf)
• Diers, J. (2010). Lessons learned - from neighbor power. [Web log post]. Neighbourhood Matching Fund Program was developed by the city of Seattle, Washington, USA.
• Dunn, A., & Gaventa, J. (2007). Building inclusive citizenship and democracies. ID21 Focus. (498K pdf)
• Eyben, R., & Ladbury, S. (2006). Building effective states: Taking a citizen's perspective. Sussex: Development Research Centre on Citizenship, Participation and Accountability. (558K pdf)
• Friends of Maiti Nepal. (2011). Anuradha Koirala. As the founder and executive director of Maiti Nepal, Ms. Koirala is an activist and lecturer who has dedicated her life to combating the sexual exploitation of women and children.
• Green Belt Movement. (2011). Wangari Maathai. A tribute to the life of Wangari Maathai, the founder of the Green Belt Movement.
• Gaventa, J. (2002). Introduction: Exploring citizenship, participation and accountability. Sussex: Institute of Development Studies. First published in IDS Bulletin, 33(2). (247K pdf)
• Gaventa, J. (2006). Finding the spaces for change: A power analysis. IDS Bulletin, 37(6), 23-33. (120K pdf)
• Gladkikh, O. (2010). Advocacy & citizen engagement (Course manual). Antigonish: Coady International Institute. (5.42 Mb pdf)
• Mathie, A. & Ghore, Y. (2011). Innovative types of formal member-based organizations (MBOs): Towards an analysis of trends and a guide to MBO potential. (Technical report to IDRC Grant No. 106282-010). Antigonish: Coady International Institute. (1.26 Mb pdf)
• Mathie, A. & Puntenney, D. (2009). From clients to citizens: Deepening the practice of asset-based and citizen-led development. Conversations from the ABCD Forum, July 8-10, Antigonish, Nova Scotia. (1.19 Mb pdf)
• Mohanty, R., Thompson, L., & Coelho, V.S. (2011). Mobilizing the state? Social mobilisation and state interaction in India, Brazil and South Africa. (IDS Working Paper 359). (1.01 Mb pdf)
• Oxfam GB. (2011). Citizenship . Gender & Development, 19(3). Library has hard copy.
• People Assessing Their Health (PATH). (2002). PATHways II: The next steps: a guide to community health impact assessment. (277K pdf)
• The Powercube: Understanding power for social change
• Sivers, D. (2010, April). How to start a movement [Video file]. (3:10 min.)
• WCA Webinars unite researchers and practitioners working on issues related to women's collection action (WCA) in agricultural markets. The series of webinars was organized by Oxfam GB in collaboration with CARE USA and the Coady Institute.

Other Links

• Research methods course links provided by the Coady International Institute.