Everyday Activism and Community Organising

This unit explores how everyday acts of resistance, care, and solidarity shape movements for social and environmental justice. Building on students’ foundational understanding of community development, it focuses on how collective change emerges through advocacy, community organising, and creative action. Drawing from grassroots campaigns and feminist, decolonial, and youth-led movements, students critically examine how power operates in communities and how organising can emerge from lived experience and be sustained through care, collaboration, and collective wellbeing.

Through experiential learning and reflective praxis, students develop core skills in facilitation, communication, and ethical activism, preparing them to act with courage, creativity, and humility in diverse community contexts.

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:

1. Analyse and apply theories and practices of community organising and everyday activism through the lenses of power, intersectionality, and justice;
2. Evaluate strategies and tools for community mobilisation, advocacy, and participatory communication within diverse local and global contexts;
3. Articulate and demonstrate collaborative leadership, facilitation, and care-based approaches through experiential and community-engaged learning; and,
4. Reflect critically on praxis, how values, identity, and relational ethics inform sustained engagement in social change.