Rosemary McGee is a Senior Research Fellow in the Power and Popular Politics Cluster, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK.

Jethro Pettit is a freelance consultant, facilitator and former Director of Teaching and Learning at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, UK

This book uncovers how power operates around the world, and how it can be resisted or transformed through empowered collective action and social leadership.

Part I 1.0 Introduction: power, empowerment and social change Part II Conceptual and theoretical groundings and debates 2.1. Plus ça change...? Shifting power in a disorienting moment 2.2 Finding community: the power of unruliness 2.3 Rethinking accountability: a power perspective 2.4 Transforming power with embodied practice 2.5 Towards a political practice of empowerment in digital times: a feminist commentary from the Global South Part III Analysing power and empowerment: frameworks and approaches 3.1 Did we forget about power? Reintroducing concepts of power for justice, equality and peace 3.2 Applying power analysis: using the 'Powercube' to explore forms, levels and spaces 3.3 Critical reflections on shifting the toxic alchemy of institutional power 3.4 Finding the right power tool(s) for the job: rendering the invisible visible Part IV Understanding agency: social action for shifting power 4.1 Power and agency in violent settings 4.2. Micro-level analysis of power and its relevance for practice 4.3 Environmental defenders: courage, territory and power 4.4 The decolonising Zapatista revolution Part V Learning and unlearning power for reflective social action 5.1 Learning about power in a Masters for reflective social change practitioners 5.2 Reflexive aid practice: naming and dealing with power 5.3 Consciousness-raising, intersectionality, and movement building for social transformation