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Bernard S. Mayer. The Neutrality Trap
Table of Contents
Guide
Pages
THE NEUTRALITY TRAP. DISRUPTING AND CONNECTING FOR SOCIAL CHANGE
Dedication
preface
Our Purpose
Our Perspectives
Our Partnership
How the Book Is Organized
chapter one engaging and disrupting for social change
Strategic Disruption
Disrupting and Engaging
Constructive Conflict
Nonviolence and Disruption
Resolution, Engagement, and Disruption
Mohandas Gandhi and the Salt March
Disrupting Systems of Oppression
Acting Small, Dreaming Big
Disrupting for What: A Guiding Vision
Reflective Dialogue: What Keeps Us Going
chapter two the neutrality trap
The Limits of Dialogue
Neutrality, Impartiality, and Objectivity
If Not Neutrality, Then What?
The Transparency Challenge
When Neutrality Felt Harmful
When Interveners’ Thoughts Were Irrelevant
Activists or Professionals
The Many Faces of the Neutrality Trap: Fairness and False Equivalence
Power and Neutrality
Reflective Dialogue: Neutrality
chapter three intersectionality and social change
Understanding Our Intersectionality
Intersectionality and Oppression
Challenging the Marginalization of the “Other”
Experiencing Conflict Through Intersectionality
Moving Away from a Single Story
Acknowledging Pain in Ourselves and Others
For Whom Are “Safe Spaces” Safe?
The Challenges of Allyship
The Conscious and Unconscious Bases of Racism
Implicit Bias and Racism
How Structures Sustain Bias and Racism
Race, Gender, and Colonialism
Imperialistic Ideology and Racism
A Note About Performativity, Virtue Signaling, and Change
chapter four constructive engagement
What Is Constructive Conflict Engagement?
The Limits of Understanding
Constructive Engagement and Systems Change
What Makes Engagement Constructive?
The Uses and Misuses of Dialogue
Talking About Access to Justice
Three Essential Features of Meaningful Dialogue
Naming the Elephant
Telling Our Stories
Attending to Power Dynamics
Assessing the Potential of Dialogue
Finding Solutions
Optimism and Realism About System Change
chapter five the hope and challenge of enduring conflict
The Faces of Conflict
Enduring Conflict
Transient Movements and Enduring Conflict
Strategies for Enduring Conflict I: Confronting Avoidance
Confronting Bigotry
Calling Out and Cancel Culture
Strategies for Enduring Conflict II: The Use of Representative Conflict
Example: The Campaign Against NDAs
The Power of “Transitional” Issues
Strategies for Enduring Conflict III: Durable Communication and Sustainable Power
Durable Communication
Sustainable Power
Sustaining Ourselves in Enduring Conflict
Reflective Dialogue: Sustaining the Effort
chapter six beyond evil, stupid, and crazy: systems of privilege and oppression
Three Crutches
Needs, Interests, and Concerns
The Return of Higher Paying, More Secure Jobs
Stemming the Impact of Immigrants
Looking for Interests beneath Interests
Identity, Community, and Purpose
The Broken System
System Concepts for Change
What Do We Mean by Systems?
Types of Systems
How Systems Change
Nucleation
Feedback Loops
Energy Flow
Are We Experiencing the Beginnings of a Paradigm Shift?
A Return to Crazy, Stupid, and Evil: Are Racists Evil?
Reflective Dialogue: Our Use of Attributions
chapter seven from chaotic to strategic disruption
Good Trouble
The Power and Limits of Chaos
A Balance between the Strategic and the Chaotic
The Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant Story
Strategic and Chaotic Disruption
The Power of Nonviolence (and the Choices It Offers)
Guns in Mississippi
Enduring Disruption
Storytelling and Social Media
Reflective Dialogue: Inspirational Stories That Went Viral
chapter eight allies, teams, and leaders
Team Leadership and Leadership of Teams
Trust and Psychological Safety
Narrative Suppression and Microaggressions
A Space Invader
Can Elites Be Allies for Change?
The Need for a Common Purpose
The Power of Community
Leaders and Boundaries
Leaders, Followers, Facilitators, and Allies
Reflective Dialogue: Allies for Change
chapter nine disrupting and connecting for social change: a forward look
Conflict Specialists and Social Change; Social Activists and Constructive Engagement
Conflict Specialists
Social Activists
The Power and Vulnerability of the Status Quo
OK Boomer: Social Change Across Generations
Truth Telling and Solidarity
Finding Sustenance in Struggle
Reflective Dialogue: The life giving energy of social struggle
Remember George Floyd
references
acknowledgments
about the authors
index
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