Contesting Community : The Limits and Potential of Local Organizing /

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What do community organizations and organizers do, and what should they do? For the past thirty years politicians, academics, advocates, and activists have heralded community as a site and strategy for social change. In contrast, Contesting Community paints a more critical picture of community work...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: DeFilippis, James
Otros Autores: Shragge, Eric, 1948-, Fisher, Robert, 1947-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Piscataway : Rutgers University Press, 2010.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Social change.
Political participation.
Community organization.
Community development.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > City Planning & Urban Development.
community organizations.
Changement social.
Participation politique.
Organisation communautaire.
Social Change
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:What do community organizations and organizers do, and what should they do? For the past thirty years politicians, academics, advocates, and activists have heralded community as a site and strategy for social change. In contrast, Contesting Community paints a more critical picture of community work which, according to the authors--in both theory and practice--has amounted to less than the sum of its parts. Their comparative study of efforts in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada describes and analyzes the limits and potential of this work. Covering dozens of groups, including ACOR.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (224 pages).
ISBN:9780813547565

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