Designed as a yearlong guided workbook, The Community Builder’s Journal invites you to experiment with building community in your street, neighbourhood, workplace, or wherever life places you. Part reflective journal, part practical guide, this book offers weekly ideas, stories, questions, and invitations to try something new. Organised into twelve monthly themes, it supports a year-long rhythm of deepening awareness and purposeful action.

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Lessons from the Zapatistas is essential reading for anyone interested in liberation, democracy and radical social transformation. It tells the story of the Zapatista insurgency and its afterlives, tracing how an Indigenous uprising burst forth from southern Mexico’s Lacandon Jungle to stage the 21st century’s first and most electrifying example of autonomy in action.

This book offers a deeply human look into how Fonkoze (a group of organisations with a name that means “shoulder-to-shoulder” in Haitian Creole) made the bold decision to target extreme poverty at its roots and adopted a program tailored to lift families out of it—permanently. Through evolving strategies and hard-earned lessons, and with compelling, firsthand accounts from women who have walked this journey, the book brings to life the resilience, courage, and transformations that define the Fonkoze approach.

Escrito por investigadoras y cineastas en el Reino Unido y Colombia, junto a 24 mujeres desplazadas en Bogotá y Medellín, este proyecto audiovisual participativo explora el desplazamiento desde la perspectiva de las mujeres. A través de tres capítulos escritos en colaboración, constituye una aportación a los temas del desplazamiento, el género y la ciudad, ya que en ellos mujeres desplazadas comparten testimonios y productos audiovisuales que dan a conocer sus experiencias de violencia y conflicto, así como sus aspiraciones de cambio mientras reconstruyen sus vidas.

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This powerful and timely book delves into the pivotal role Afghan women have played—and continue to play—in shaping the country’s social and economic future. Mahbooba Waizi blends rigorous research with her own compelling personal story, to bring to life the voices and experiences of women who, against immense odds, continue to transform their families, communities, and the nation.

Now open access – Backyard Bankers, a vivid look at how immigrant communities use powerful, self-built money clubs to transform their financial futures, is now free for all to read!

‘Backyard Bankers shows that people themselves have solutions that they own and that work.’ John Hammock, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) and SOPHIA Oxford. 

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