However, paradoxically a "populist" movement may have a chance where "established" political parties have miserably failed to make acceptable choices that will involve sacrifices, by engaging people into a broader project of transformation.
Similarly, AIDS diplomacy can be a project of transformation and emancipation for South Africa, which is in need of a refocused and rejuvenated foreign policy.
But recall: the Chavista coalition is, ostensibly, carrying out a hegemonic project of national transformation.
He sympathizes with the search for religious consolation, the project of imaginary transformation, but does not undertake any such project of his own.
The effort has been called "the biggest social project on the planet," and enthusiasts have described it as a project of national transformation; skeptics see a threat of intrusions by the state, or detect patriotic vanity — a craving for the world to see India as a society capable of the achievement.
Religious pacifism has a virtue ethics component when the commitment to peace is conceived as a lifelong project of personal transformation.
And pacifism can be connected to a larger project of spiritual transformation, as in Gandhi's commitment to ahimsa or nonviolence.
Salman Rushdie will be writing and producing "Next People," Showtime's latest project about the "radical pace of transformation in contemporary American life — from politics and race to technology, science and sexuality".
They are often led by a person or small group of people, who organize while projecting hope and a vision of transformation.
There were examples of transformation in housing projects, with refugees in Gaza, with Nepalese relief workers, and with the Kenyan Police service.
