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Collates knowledge and examines the role and nature of community groups and activities operating outside of the formal voluntary sector in the UK to develop a coherent understanding about these so-called ""below the radar"" organisations.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: McCabe, Angus (Editor ), Phillimore, Jenny (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Policy Press, 2017.
Edición:1st
Colección:Third sector research series.
Temas:
Community organization.
Organisation communautaire.
community organizations.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Services.
Soziale Bewegung
Stadt
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • COMMUNITY GROUPS IN CONTEXT
  • Contents
  • List of tables and figures
  • Tables
  • Figures
  • Foreword
  • Series editor's foreword
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes on contributors
  • Introduction
  • Introduction. Why get below the radar? The importance of understanding community groups and activities
  • Part one. Scoping and mapping community actions and activities
  • 1. Below the radar? Community groups and activities in context
  • Background
  • Defining 'below the radar'
  • The scale of below the radar activity
  • The nature of below the radar activity
  • A below the radar sector?
  • Common challenges
  • Conclusion: some contested issues
  • Key learning
  • 2. Getting below the radar: micro-mapping 'hidden' community activity
  • Introduction
  • Mapping the below-radar third sector
  • Digging down below the radar
  • What does it look like beneath the 'official' radar?
  • The niche, the specific, and the very local?
  • Common themes below the radar
  • Final reflections on street-level micro-mapping
  • Key learning
  • Part Two. Community groups and activities in context
  • 3. Are we different? Claims for distinctiveness in voluntary and community action
  • Background
  • Coming into existence
  • Keeping it going?
  • Are community groups distinctive?
  • The limitations of distinctiveness
  • A hardening of attitudes?
  • Conclusion
  • Key learning
  • 4. Community as policy: reflections on community engagement, empowerment and social action in a changing policy context
  • Background
  • From community engagement to social action?
  • From Big Society, through localism, to policy neglect
  • Taking on 'the big issues': power and community groups in austere times
  • Conclusion
  • Key learning
  • 5. Lost to austerity, lost in austerity: rethinking the community sector in Ireland
  • Introduction
  • Analysis and debate.
  • The community sector prior to austerity
  • The community sector in austerity
  • Challenges to the community sector
  • Conclusion
  • Key learning
  • 6. All change? Surviving below the radar: community groups and activities in hard times
  • Introduction
  • Background: austerity in policy context
  • Responses to austerity 2010-16: policy rich and resource poor?
  • Surviving below the radar?
  • Time and resources
  • Places and spaces for community activity
  • Scaling up to survive?
  • Shifting attitudes and ideologies
  • Conclusion: all change below the radar?
  • Key learning
  • Part Three. Under-explored radars
  • 7. The UK Gypsy, Traveller and Roma third sector: a Gypsy industry or route to empowerment?
  • Introduction
  • The roots of the Gypsy, Traveller and Roma third sector
  • Assimilation, emancipation or empowerment
  • UK GTR activism: ladders or scaffolds
  • The GTR third sector under the coalition and Conservative governments
  • A pedagogy of hope
  • Key learning
  • 8. Understanding grassroots arts groups and practices in communities
  • The amateur and grassroots arts sector
  • Framing informal arts practices
  • Social impacts and benefits: a dominant discourse
  • Understanding informal arts groups in communities
  • Conclusion
  • Key learning
  • 9. Is there a black and minority ethnic third sector in the UK?
  • Introduction
  • The BME third sector
  • Characteristics of the BME third sector
  • Disaggregating the BME third sector
  • Faith-based organisations
  • Conclusion
  • Key learning
  • 10. 'More than a refugee community organisation': a study of African migrant associations in Glasgow
  • Introduction
  • Theoretical discussion
  • Understanding community groups and activities
  • Conclusion
  • Key learning
  • Part Four. Thinking about voice, learning and emotion below the radar.
  • 11. 'Almost a whisper': black and minority ethnic community groups' voice and influence
  • Background: why understanding BME voice is important
  • Research methods
  • Strategies for voice and influence
  • Challenges to developing and sustaining voice and influence
  • Losing voice: discussion
  • Voice as a whisper: conclusion
  • Key learning
  • 12. Learning to sustain social action
  • Context: from social capital to capacity building
  • Looking at learning in community action: research aims and methods
  • The learning journey
  • Passion
  • plus knowledge: how things work
  • Learning to support community learning: final reflections
  • Final reflections: spaces for learning
  • Key learning
  • 13. Authentic and legitimate? The emotional role of 'grassroots' community activists in policymaking
  • Researching and understanding emotion in policymaking
  • Splitting: emotion and reason
  • Emotion work
  • Understanding activists' emotional practice
  • Activists' feeling roles and rules
  • Key learning
  • 14. Conclusion: thinking back and looking forward
  • Index.

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