Description
Rooted in a participatory action research framework, this is an in depth exploration of two mutual aid disaster relief organizations: Common Ground and Occupy Sandy, and what makes their approach distinctive and effective.
Participatory horizons can mean two diametrically opposed realities that coexist at the same time. On the one hand, horizons means the limits of perception or experience. In this way, it is representative of the limit of the naive view that involvement alone is enough. How far can participation without sharing power take us? If the past is any indication, it will only take us to the familiar dead ends we have known so well.
On the other hand, as Common Ground and Occupy Sandy exemplify, if we have the courage to truly value the voices and lives of disaster survivors, as equals, which means respecting their needs as they define them for themselves, there is the sun of a new day waiting to rise where the ocean meets the sky.
This radical new approach to disaster relief and to social movement organizing, comes just in time for the storm clouds that even now are threatening in the distance.
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