Emergent Strategy

Summary

A movement handbook from adrienne maree brown, drawing on Octavia Butler and the living world. Emergent strategy is “how we intentionally change in ways that grow our capacity to embody the just and liberated worlds we long for”, preferring “critical connections over critical mass”. Her wager: “what we practice at a small scale can reverberate to the largest scale”.

Rationale

Without intention, brown warns, we end up “practicing what the dominant society wants us to practice”. Our version: which dispositions are we living through how we organise the work?