Relationships de Confianza and the organisation of collective social action |
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| Authors: | Leah A Teeters A Susan Jurow |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA;2. School of Education, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA |
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| Abstract: | 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. |
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| Keywords: | Relationships de confianza promotoras equity learning scale-making community development |
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