John Gaventa
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John Gaventa (1949 - ) is political sociologist and a fellow with the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, UK.
He received a MacArthur Award in 1981 for his work with the Highlander Research and Education Center in New Market, Tennessee.
Gaventa received his B.A. from Vanderbilt University in 1971, and was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford. He taught at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville from until 1996. He started working at the Highlander Research and Education Center in 1976, and was director from 1993 until 1996.
His publications include
- Power and Powerlessness: Quiescence and Rebellion in an Appalachian Valley. ISBN 0252009851
- We make the road by walking : conversations on education and social change. ISBN 0877227756
- Communities in Economic Crisis: Appalachia & the South ISBN 0877226504
- Global citizen action ISBN 1555879683