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Adrienne Maree BrownEmergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more.
Further Reading & Resources
Further Reading: Literature
Parable of the Sower (1993) and Parable of the Talents (1998) by Octavia Butler
Octavia Butler’s Parable series is a visionary exploration of a dystopian future and the transformative power of belief and community. Consisting of two novels, the series follows the journey of Lauren Olamina, a young woman living in a world plagued by environmental degradation, social unrest, and economic collapse. Two of Butler’s most famous novels, brown drew inspiration from these novels and mentions them throughout Emergent Strategies.
Other Relevant Media Resources
A space co-created by brown that offers experimentation, facilitation, training, and more on emergent strategy work. The Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute is part of the Allied Media Projects Sponsored Projects Program.
The Emergent Strategy Podcast is an interview-style podcast on the practice of emergent strategies. It is cohosted by Sage Crump, Mia Herndon, and adrienne maree brown.
This Allied Media Projects website, shared in the footnotes of Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds, includes documents mentioned throughout the book as well as additional resources.
An organized collection of titles on emergent strategy and its practice, including brown’s own publications.
