But the stories of empowerment I heard when I visited the Sangli headquarters of the Vamp collective not only summed up some of the most important lessons we were learning in the programme about what works to support women's empowerment, they were also among the most impressive.
Members of that collective not only adopt certain ways of perceiving and thinking, but they also continually transform it and this transformation does occur not so much "in their heads" as in their interpersonal space.
Mao's plan of herding everyone into collectives not only destroyed the immemorial bonds of the family; it made people who traditionally used their private land to grow food, secure loans, and generate capital helplessly dependent on an increasingly maladroit and callous state.
Five young writers have banded together in a kind of mini-collective, not only to palliate this arduous journey but to be each other's first readers, and then to watch each other's backs as the work makes the leap into public view.
To be effective, bystander intervention must be a collective effort, not only an individual act.
One prone student held a sign reading, "Racism is Real". These medical students' collective protests not only created visual spectacle, but produced a dynamic speculative fiction.
Programme manager Matt Hastings says collective switching not only saves money for hard-pressed households, but could provide a model for wider community action.
Malaria requires a collective response, not only for compassionate reasons (the disease hurts poor children the most), but also because some of the tools for battling it show increasing returns.
Superbly led by campaign co-chairs Bob Murley '72 and Nancy Peretsman '76, this collective effort not only addressed our University's foremost needs, it also enlarged the metaphorical tent in which Princetonians gather.
Just 48 hours after America laid its most famous Muslim, Muhammad Ali, to rest in a spirit of celebration and pride, the entire Muslim community faced finding itself under collective suspicion, not only of terrorism but of homophobia.
Despite its author's best intentions, "The Cause" makes it harder, not easier, to understand how liberals ever mustered the intellectual clarity or collective resolve not only to govern but to achieve what they manifestly did during their long reign at the vital center of our national life — or even, in a more qualified way, during the two decades since Bill Clinton promised to "put people first".
