Constructing Need and Fostering Trust: Grassroots Leaders at the Nexus of Religious and Social Welfare Fields in Uganda

  • Starts: 12:00 pm on Monday, February 11, 2019
  • Ends: 1:30 pm on Monday, February 11, 2019
This research examines how grassroots leaders caring for community needs in Uganda come to occupy the positions they do, with a focus on how they construct a sense of the need to be addressed and foster trust in their relations to donors and constituents. Dr. Nicolette Manglos Weber employs and extends a field theoretic approach, showing how leaders use their social positioning and practical knowledge acquired in the religious field to be successful within the social welfare field. Her broader offering is a conceptual language for talking about overlapping relations between fields, and exploring other cases of social field overlap; and for seeing the possibilities for transformative agency when persons are positioned across multiple fields.
Speakers:
Nicolette Manglos-Weber
Audience:
public
Address:
100 Cummington Mall
Room:
241
Fees:
free
Registration:
Assistant Professor of Religion and Society, School of Theology, Boston University
Contact Organization:
Boston University, Department of Sociology
Contact Name:
Deborah Carr
Contact Phone:
17323091807

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