{"product_id":"emergent-strategy-shaping-change-changing-worlds","title":"Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart of the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.akpress.org\/featured-products\/emergent-strategy-series.html\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eEmergent Strategy Series\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSelf-help, society-help, and planet-help to shape the futures we want. A resolutely materialist spirituality based equally on science and science fiction: a wild feminist and afro-futurist ride!\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInspired by Octavia Butler's explorations of our human relationship to change,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eEmergent Strategy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help designed to shape the futures we want to live. Change is constant. The world is in a continual state of flux. It is a stream of ever-mutating, emergent patterns. Rather than steel ourselves against such change, this book invites us to feel, map, assess, and learn from the swirling patterns around us in order to better understand and influence them as they happen. This is a resolutely materialist “spirituality” based equally on science and science fiction, a visionary incantation to transform that which ultimately transforms us.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Emergent Strategy \u003c\/em\u003eis an examination of where our movements have been and an offering of a framework for resistance that is rooted in the miracles of nature, decentralized, collective leadership, and personal, relational, organizational, and movement-wide transformation. Brown not only inspires me to resist, but to do in the most beautiful, joyful, creative, sustainable, collective and effective ways.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003eAndrea, J. Ritchie, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eInvisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e“It was a revelation to discover adrienne maree brown’s\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eEmergent Strategy\u003c\/em\u003e. She is matter of-fact about the coming destruction we face—of our environment, of our resources, of our governments. Her philosophy, based on Octavia Butler’s guiding philosophy of the Earthseed books, is that God Is Change. Rather than run from it or resist it, we should embrace it, look to what the plants, animals, and genomes can teach us about adapting to survive and to thrive.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e—\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eBuzzFeed\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Necessary, vital, and timely.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003eAyana Jamieson, Octavia E. Butler Legacy Network\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Adrienne leads us on a passionate, purposeful, intimate ride into this Universe where relationships spawn new possibilities.  Her years of dedication to facilitating change by partnering with life invite us to also join with life to create the changes so desperately needed now.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003eMargaret Wheatley, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eLeadership and the New Science\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Adrienne has challenged me, enlightened me and reminded me that transformation happens in our natural world every day and we can borrow from it strategies to transform ourselves, our organizations, and our society.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003eDenise Perry, Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity (BOLD)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“A word\/heart sojourn through the hard questions.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003eMakani Themba, facilitator for the Movement for Black Lives\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eEmergent Strategy\u003c\/em\u003e…reminds us, directly and by example, that wonder (which at its heart is love), is the foundation of our ability to shape change and create the world we want.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003eAlta Starr, leadership development trainer at Generative Somatics\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Drawing on sources as varied as poetry, science fiction, forests, ancestors, and a desired future,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eEmergent Strategy\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003espeaks with ease about what is hard and brings us into that ease without losing its way. Savor and enjoy!”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003eElissa Perry, Management Assistance Group\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Emergent Strategy offers a pattern language and nonlinear playbook for waging love in dark, uncertain times. As such, it is a must-read for any pragmatist seeking to develop the practical skills and expanded awareness needed to transform grief and trauma into hopeful movements for regeneration.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003eElizabeth Walsh for\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Solutions Journal\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This hybrid manifesto\/spellbook\/toolkit applies the most utopian ideas of Octavia Butler to organizing, arguing that movements must use biomimicry to be resilient, adaptive, decentralized, interconnected, detoxifying, fractal and iterative in nature to create a future worthy of earthseed.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003eKevin Thomas for\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Rumpus\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e“It is the end of the world as we know it, thanks to a lot of reasons. Now is the time to gird ourselves for the fight for a new world. Right now I can't think of better girding than Emergent Strategy.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e—\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eDetroit Metro Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\"If your survival kit has room for a book, you’d better reserve that space for \u003cem\u003eEmergent Strategy\u003c\/em\u003e. ... brown’s book is a revelation. It is a manual for facing the most urgent crises of our time—environmental collapse, late capitalism, white supremacy, heteropatriarchy—without drowning in the enormity of the task.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublic Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e“\u003cem\u003eEmergent Strategy\u003c\/em\u003e is a lyrical, explorative, non-linear journey ... It’s a book for people interested in radical social change, who are willing to think expansively about what the future could look like, or are in need of help doing that kind of thinking ... This is what is so appealing about brown’s work—she is almost hopelessly optimistic. She refuses to give in to cynicism or despair, and this ability to dream wildly is part of why she can maintain such openness toward the idea of a better future.”\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e—\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eColorlines\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eadrienne maree brown\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a writer rooted in Detroit who now lives in Durham, NC. She is a student of the works of Octavia E. Butler and Ursula K. Le Guin. Some of her books include \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.akpress.org\/octavia-s-brood.html\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eOctavia’s Brood\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.akpress.org\/pleasure-activism.html\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePleasure Activism\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.akpress.org\/we-will-not-cancel-us.html\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eWe Will Not Cancel Us\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e. Her visionary fiction has appeared in \u003cem\u003eThe Funambulist\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eHarvard Design Review\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eDark Mountain, and YES! 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