Snyder Brown Laura, Lankford William Fleet

Cultivating a Revolutionary Spirit (eBook, ePUB)

Stories of Solidarity, Solar Cooking, and Women's Leadership in Central America

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An exemplary story of solidarity in action, Cultivating a Revolutionary Spirit conveys the exhilarating experience of being part of paradigm-changing revolutions.

Bill Lankford visited Nicaragua in 1984 to see the Sandinista revolution for himself. What he found led this physics professor to volunteer his skills teaching at the Central American University in Managua. There, he and his students developed a solar cooking project which took on a life of its own, spreading throughout the five countries of Central America.

In Cultivating a Revolutionary Spirit, Bill describes how local women used the tools of carpentry to build solar ovens and how they used the tools of feminism to take more control over their own lives and their communities. Bill leveraged his personal resources as a white North American man-professionally educated, fluent in English, with access to money and connections-to facilitate the work of Central American women who started by building ovens and went on to create an array of projects to meet basic needs, improve health, and increase access to educational and leadership opportunities for women.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: PM Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798887440255
• Artikelnr.: 69090865

Autorenporträt

Laura Snyder Brown has worked with community-based organizations for nearly three decades, supporting women and women-led justice efforts in the US, and in Central and South America. She holds a master's degree in social work, is a graduate of the Living School at the Center for Action and Contemplation, and served with Maryknoll Lay Missioners (Chile, 2005). Laura is the co-founder of Casa Alma, a Catholic Worker community in Charlottesville, VA; there, she and her husband have raised three children while cultivating an urban homestead and providing hospitality for low-income families.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1: Joining the Nicaraguan Revolution
Comparative Study Tour
Images of the Revolution
An Invitation to Liberation
Women and Indigenous Revolutionaries
Called to Action
Chapter 2: Discovering Solar Ovens
Cooking with the Sun
Solar Ovens at the University
Collaborations with Students
Mayans Improve the Solar Oven
Steps toward Expansion
Chapter 3: Learning from and with Women
Solar Cooking Demonstrations
Women’s Workshops
Connection and Mutual Support
Men React to the Workshops
New Opportunities for Leadership
Chapter 4: Establishing Program Centers
Solar Cooking and Community
Making Connections
The Founding of PROCESO
Local Associations Emerge
Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras
Trajectories of Growth
Guatemala, Honduras
Chapter 5: Growing Associations
Volunteers in Solidarity
Sharing Wealth
Solar Ovens and Quality of Life Programs
Machismo Culture
Women Build Power
Occasions for Growth
Chapter 6: Transforming Suffering into Strength
Developing Leaders from Within
Siemprevivas Curriculum
Women Awakened
Elvia, a Strong Role Model
Poverty and Migration
Chapter 7: Women and Associations Struggle toward Autonomy
Juice Production
Threats to Sustainability
Male Dominance and Harassment
Contradictions of My Influence
Chapter 8: Associations Diminish, Resilience Continues
Expanded Leadership Training
Program Closures
AMDV Expands
Human Rights in Honduras
Continuing Onward
A Note from Laura Snyder Brown
Acknowledgements
Bibliography