What to Read After Power and Powerlessness
Readers who loved Power and Powerlessness by John Gaventa keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Power and Powerlessness is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Power and Powerlessness
Domination and the Arts of Resistance
Carbon Democracy
Soul of a Citizen
The Public and Its Problems
Everything in Its Path
The Vocation Lectures
Justice and the Politics of Difference
Socialism...seriously
Freedom Summer
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle
The Social Contract and Other Later Political Writings
The Moral Economy of the Peasant
Lost Mountain
Classics of Moral and Political Theory
Issues in Pakistan's economy
Super Imperialism
Power
Appalachia
Late Victorian Holocausts
Political Ideologies and the Democratic Ideal
Disobedience and Democracy
The Social Contract and Discourses
The London Hanged
Bowling Alone