After The Protests Are Heard – Sharon D Welch

In their 1977 work, “The Professional Managerial Class,” Barbara and John Ehrenreich provided a classic description of this class and its economic and social power. Members of the professional managerial class are neither the primary owners of the means of production, nor the workers who produce goods directly. Rather, as managers in corporate and civil life, as physicians, nurses, teachers, ministers, architects, engineers, attorneys, and professors, they are the agents of social order. This may be a social order based on social control, and hence be accompanied by relationships of either deference or hostility from the working class, or it can be a social order in solidarity with the working class, agents of a social order based on justice, equity, and compassion.

They have the relative leisure and social capital to make their voices heard and can lead demonstrations and acts of public witness. More importantly, in their professional lives they are in decision-making positions in which they can respond to demonstrations and acts of public witness. They can shape policy to respond to the dual imperatives of social justice and environmental sustainability. Key Insights for Progressive Practice What does it take for consumers, investors, workers, managers, and owners to move away from the Windigo of extractive capitalism and excessive consumerism to the creation of community economies of mutuality and reciprocity?

What does it take to make such efforts genuinely liberative? How can we avoid the trap of seeking a larger social good, yet only meeting the needs of our own social class? Here the basic tenets of liberation theology are essential: first, ongoing involvement of those marginalized and excluded groups in the creation of social policies and institutions, and, second, ongoing attention to the impact of our joint efforts on those most marginalized.

This requires direct contact, building relationships of accountability and mutual critique. In the Oxford Handbook on Professional Economic Ethics, the economist Ravi Kanbur makes a strong case for sustained immersion in communities served by development professionals.

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Reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press, www.oup.com. Copyright 2016. Select portions of this book were published in a previous version in “Machiavellian Dilemma,” in Tikkun Magazine, May/June 2010, www.tikkun.com. Copyright 2010. Reproduced by permission. Select portions of this book were published in a previous version in “Aesthetic Pragmatism and a Third Wave of Radical Politics,” in Ain’t I a Womanist Too?, edited by Monica Coleman.

Fortress Press. Copyright 2013. Select portions of this book were published in a previous version in “Audacity, Virtuosity and Wonder,” in A People So Bold, edited by John Gibb Millspaugh. Boston: Skinner Books. Copyright 2010. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Welch, Sharon D., author. Title: After the protests are heard : enacting civic engagement and social transformation / Sharon D. Welch. Description: New York : New York University Press, [2019] | Series: Religion and social transformation | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2018012215| ISBN 9781479883646 (cl : alk.

paper) | ISBN 9781479857906 (pb : alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Social justice. | Social change.

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