John Gaventa (born 1949) is a political sociologist and a fellow with the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. Year 1949 ( MCMXLIX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Institute of Development Studies (IDS based at the University of Sussex is a research and teaching centre dealing with international development issues The University of Sussex is a British Campus university which is situated next to the East Sussex village of Falmer, and is from Brighton The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located He is the current (2007) chair of Oxfam Great Britain Council of Trustees. [1]
Gaventa received his B. A. from Vanderbilt University in 1971, and was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford. Vanderbilt University is a private, Nonsectarian, Coeducational Research University in Nashville, Tennessee, Rhodes Scholarship Rhodes scholar redirects here Rhodes Scholar redirects here Rhodes scholars The University of Oxford (informally "Oxford University" or simply "Oxford" located in the city of Oxford, Oxfordshire, England is the He taught at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville from until 1996. The University of Tennessee (also known as UT) sometimes called the University of Tennessee Knoxville ( UT Knoxville, or UTK) is the flagship
He started working at the Highlander Research and Education Center in New Market, Tennessee, in 1976, and was director from 1993 until 1996. The Highlander Research and Education Center, formerly known as the Highlander Folk School, is a leadership training school and cultural center located in New Market Tennessee New Market is a town in Jefferson County, Tennessee, United States. He received a MacArthur Award in 1981 for his work with the Highlander Center. The MacArthur Fellows Program or MacArthur Fellowship (sometimes Nicknamed the "genius grant") is an award given by the John D
His publications include
- Power and Powerlessness: Quiescence and Rebellion in an Appalachian Valley. ISBN 0-252-00985-1
- We make the road by walking : conversations on education and social change. ISBN 0-87722-775-6
- Communities in Economic Crisis: Appalachia & the South ISBN 0-87722-650-4
- Global citizen action ISBN 1-55587-968-3
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