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Amanda Tattersall

Introduction to Organising across Sameness and Difference

In what ways is democracy and community organising as a practice of negotiating the tension between sameness and difference?

16 min readJan 6, 2024

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$An image of prisims refracting light.$

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Amanda Tattersall

Scaling Change — On making change big and small

This article was first published in 2021, in the Australian literary publication Griffith Review, edition 73: Hey Utopia.

23 min readDec 28, 2023

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Scaling Change — On making change big and small

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Amanda Tattersall

A report from a remarkable workshop about Mental Health and Neurodiversity

On 12 October the Sydney Alliance and Sydney Policy Lab ran a workshop called ‘You Can’t Ask That’ about Mental Health and Neurodiversity…

7 min readOct 27, 2022

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A report from a remarkable workshop about Mental Health and Neurodiversity

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Amanda Tattersall

Our biggest obstacle to mental health is something we can change together

This is the full-text of a speech I gave to a Workshop on Mental Health and Neurodiversity held by the Sydney Alliance. The Sydney Alliance…

5 min readOct 25, 2022

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Our biggest obstacle to mental health is something we can change together

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Amanda Tattersall

Scale is the most confusing word in social change

Scale is faddishly desired but deeply confusing, this piece identifies four distinct strategies to scale change based on speed and place.

10 min readOct 18, 2022

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Scale is the most confusing word in social change

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Amanda Tattersall

Organising and the other forms of urban people power

This article will appear in an upcoming book about Community Organising, published in Germany

17 min readMay 2, 2022

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Organising and the other forms of urban people power

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Amanda Tattersall

Using social change thinking to transform how we think and act about mental illness

This blog was delivered as a speech to the Matilda Centre at the University of Sydney on 31 March 2022.

13 min readMar 31, 2022

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Using social change thinking to transform how we think and act about mental illness

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The Alinsky organising tradition and questions of interest and identity

Exploring how community organising came to understand self-interest and how that might help it engage with understandings of identity.

19 min readMar 1, 2022

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The Alinsky organising tradition and questions of interest and identity

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Amanda Tattersall

The public dimensions of mental illness

Five provocations for rethinking how we understand mental illness, from a community organiser who lives with bipolar disorder.

12 min readJan 5, 2022

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The public dimensions of mental illness

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Amanda Tattersall

Can community organising help us co-design? The origins of a new relational method

Amanda Tattersall & Marc Stears

11 min readNov 18, 2021

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Can community organising help us co-design? The origins of a new relational method

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Amanda Tattersall

Amanda Tattersall

Associate Professor at the University of Sydney’. Helped start Sydney Alliance & GetUp. Lived experience advocate on mental health.

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