Amanda Tattersall
Biographic Data
| ID | 283532 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amanda Tattersall |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amanda |
| FAMILY NAME | Tattersall |
| SIGNATURE | TATTERSALL A |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0001-8633 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Relational Method: How Community Organizing Can Reshape University Research
Crises of confidence in the relationship between academic research and broader society has led to an explosion in interest in community-led research methods, such as codesign, community-engaged research, and participatory action research. These methods are intended as a way of reconnecting scholarship and society during a period of intense polarization, but they remain far from mainstream. This reflection considers whether community organizing, a…
Creating a new climate transition politics? Reflections on a Real Deal for Australia
Economic responses to climate change, such as just transitions and the Green New Deal (GND), have helped shift climate policy debate to focus on the economic dimensions of climate change. Yet these approaches have also been limited; they have not always delivered, they have left some groups behind and at times have polarised affected constituencies. This article argues that a key reason for this is that these agendas have primarily involved impos…
Prefiguring Pragmatically? Prefigurative Politics and the Constellation of People Power Strategies for Winning Affordable Housing in Cape Town
This article contributes to ongoing discussions about the practice of prefigurative politics by urban social movements, and the relationship between prefiguration and other political practices. We argue that urban social movements can deploy prefigurative power in combination with other political strategies with which it is often contrasted and opposed. To demonstrate, we explore Cape Town's Reclaim the City movement that occupied several inner-c…
Urban people power strategies in a connected world: Exploring the patterns of practice, exchange, translation and learning
Urban social movements, alliances and organisations use a range of strategies to contest injustice and inequality by making urban authority accountable to the ‘power of the people’. While there is irrepressible diversity in the strategies used to build and enact people power across global urban contexts, movement participants rarely start from scratch in developing these strategies. There are patterns of contestation that resonate and circulate b…
Democratising cities: Introduction
The world’s cities are plagued by serious ills of injustice, inequality and uneven development. Through hard-fought struggles against these urban inequalities and injustices, cities remain important breeding grounds for forms of democratic action that have the potential to reinvigorate the practice and potential of democracy itself. Contemporary struggles over rights to the city generate new answers to questions at the heart of the democratic ide…
School strike for climate are leading the way: How their people power strategies are generating distinctive pathways for leadership development
Since November 2018, Australian high school climate strikers have become leaders in the movement for climate action, giving rise to a new generation of young people who have learnt how to lead change. This article focuses on the question of leadership across social movements and in global youth movements. It then investigates the different forms of leadership emerging in School Striker for Climate (SS4C) through a qualitative survey of its leader…
Engaged environmental citizenship
Engaged Environmental Citizenship is an important contribution to the literature on environmental citizenship at a critical time for our planet. The book takes a growing international literature on
Power in Coalition: Strategies for Strong Unions and Social Change
Tattersall argues that coalition success must be measured by two criteria: whether campaigns produce social change and whether they sustain organizational strength. The book contributes new, practical frameworks and insights to guide unions globally.
A Little Help from Our Friends: Exploring and Understanding when Labor-Community Coalitions Are Likely to Form
Union renewal and coalition unionism are widely considered necessary; however, the reasons why a union might participate in a coalition is undertheorized. This article considers six factors that help explain when a union is likely to form a coalition with a community organization, which are explored in a case study comparison of two coalitions in Australia and Canada. Preexisting union identities, common interest, and decentralized union structur…
Winning on our Issues with Power
Social movement organisations need to have a pragmatic understanding of our current weaknesses and challenge ourselves to be much more adventurous for how to build social power and transformative change. This article considers three core weaknesses of our activist organisations, including how our issue agenda is often reactive, our disconnection from place and our poor track record on collaboration. It then suggests that the hope for stronger soc…
Four Shades of Political Coalitions: Exploring the Possibilities for Powerful Political Coalitions Between Unions and Community Organisations
This paper aims to develop an analytical framework different types of political coalitions between unions and community organisations. It presents a four part framework that categorises different types of coalitions according to their form and power, and describes the possibilities and limitations of each
Power in Coalition: Strategies for Strong Unions and Social Change
Tattersall argues that coalition success must be measured by two criteria: whether campaigns produce social change and whether they sustain organizational strength. The book contributes new, practical frameworks and insights to guide unions globally.
A Little Help from Our Friends: Exploring and Understanding when Labor-Community Coalitions Are Likely to Form
Union renewal and coalition unionism are widely considered necessary; however, the reasons why a union might participate in a coalition is undertheorized. This article considers six factors that help explain when a union is likely to form a coalition with a community organization, which are explored in a case study comparison of two coalitions in Australia and Canada. Preexisting union identities, common interest, and decentralized union structur…
Urban people power strategies in a connected world: Exploring the patterns of practice, exchange, translation and learning
Urban social movements, alliances and organisations use a range of strategies to contest injustice and inequality by making urban authority accountable to the ‘power of the people’. While there is irrepressible diversity in the strategies used to build and enact people power across global urban contexts, movement participants rarely start from scratch in developing these strategies. There are patterns of contestation that resonate and circulate b…
Four Shades of Political Coalitions: Exploring the Possibilities for Powerful Political Coalitions Between Unions and Community Organisations
This paper aims to develop an analytical framework different types of political coalitions between unions and community organisations. It presents a four part framework that categorises different types of coalitions according to their form and power, and describes the possibilities and limitations of each
A Little Help from Our Friends: Exploring and Understanding when Labor-Community Coalitions Are Likely to Form
Union renewal and coalition unionism are widely considered necessary; however, the reasons why a union might participate in a coalition is undertheorized. This article considers six factors that help explain when a union is likely to form a coalition with a community organization, which are explored in a case study comparison of two coalitions in Australia and Canada. Preexisting union identities, common interest, and decentralized union structur…
Winning on our Issues with Power
Social movement organisations need to have a pragmatic understanding of our current weaknesses and challenge ourselves to be much more adventurous for how to build social power and transformative change. This article considers three core weaknesses of our activist organisations, including how our issue agenda is often reactive, our disconnection from place and our poor track record on collaboration. It then suggests that the hope for stronger soc…
Power in Coalition: Strategies for Strong Unions and Social Change
Tattersall argues that coalition success must be measured by two criteria: whether campaigns produce social change and whether they sustain organizational strength. The book contributes new, practical frameworks and insights to guide unions globally.
Engaged environmental citizenship
Engaged Environmental Citizenship is an important contribution to the literature on environmental citizenship at a critical time for our planet. The book takes a growing international literature on
School strike for climate are leading the way: How their people power strategies are generating distinctive pathways for leadership development
Since November 2018, Australian high school climate strikers have become leaders in the movement for climate action, giving rise to a new generation of young people who have learnt how to lead change. This article focuses on the question of leadership across social movements and in global youth movements. It then investigates the different forms of leadership emerging in School Striker for Climate (SS4C) through a qualitative survey of its leader…
Urban people power strategies in a connected world: Exploring the patterns of practice, exchange, translation and learning
Urban social movements, alliances and organisations use a range of strategies to contest injustice and inequality by making urban authority accountable to the ‘power of the people’. While there is irrepressible diversity in the strategies used to build and enact people power across global urban contexts, movement participants rarely start from scratch in developing these strategies. There are patterns of contestation that resonate and circulate b…
Democratising cities: Introduction
The world’s cities are plagued by serious ills of injustice, inequality and uneven development. Through hard-fought struggles against these urban inequalities and injustices, cities remain important breeding grounds for forms of democratic action that have the potential to reinvigorate the practice and potential of democracy itself. Contemporary struggles over rights to the city generate new answers to questions at the heart of the democratic ide…
Prefiguring Pragmatically? Prefigurative Politics and the Constellation of People Power Strategies for Winning Affordable Housing in Cape Town
This article contributes to ongoing discussions about the practice of prefigurative politics by urban social movements, and the relationship between prefiguration and other political practices. We argue that urban social movements can deploy prefigurative power in combination with other political strategies with which it is often contrasted and opposed. To demonstrate, we explore Cape Town's Reclaim the City movement that occupied several inner-c…
The Relational Method: How Community Organizing Can Reshape University Research
Crises of confidence in the relationship between academic research and broader society has led to an explosion in interest in community-led research methods, such as codesign, community-engaged research, and participatory action research. These methods are intended as a way of reconnecting scholarship and society during a period of intense polarization, but they remain far from mainstream. This reflection considers whether community organizing, a…
Creating a new climate transition politics? Reflections on a Real Deal for Australia
Economic responses to climate change, such as just transitions and the Green New Deal (GND), have helped shift climate policy debate to focus on the economic dimensions of climate change. Yet these approaches have also been limited; they have not always delivered, they have left some groups behind and at times have polarised affected constituencies. This article argues that a key reason for this is that these agendas have primarily involved impos…
Political science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Public relations (5 works) · Political economy (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Economics (2 works)