Cargando…
Contesting Community : The Limits and Potential of Local Organizing /
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...
| Autor principal: | |
|---|---|
| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Piscataway :
Rutgers University Press,
2010.
|
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
|
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
MARC
| LEADER | 00000cam a22000004a 4500 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | musev2_95794 | ||
| 003 | MdBmJHUP | ||
| 005 | 20230905053213.0 | ||
| 006 | m o d | ||
| 007 | cr||||||||nn|n | ||
| 008 | 120305s2010 nju o 00 0 eng d | ||
| 020 | |a 9780813547565 | ||
| 020 | |z 0813547563 | ||
| 040 | |a MdBmJHUP |c MdBmJHUP | ||
| 100 | 1 | |a DeFilippis, James. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Contesting Community : |b The Limits and Potential of Local Organizing / |c James DeFilippis, Robert Fisher, Eric Shragge. |
| 264 | 1 | |a Piscataway : |b Rutgers University Press, |c 2010. | |
| 264 | 3 | |a Baltimore, Md. : |b Project MUSE, |c 0000 | |
| 264 | 4 | |c ©2010. | |
| 300 | |a 1 online resource (224 pages). | ||
| 336 | |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
| 337 | |a computer |b c |2 rdamedia | ||
| 338 | |a online resource |b cr |2 rdacarrier | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a 1. Community and its discontents -- 2. History matters : canons, anti-canons, and critical lessons from the past -- 3. The market, the state, and community in the contemporary political economy -- 4. "It takes a village" : community as contemporary social reform -- 5. What's left in the community? -- 6. Radicalizing community. | |
| 520 | |a 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. | ||
| 546 | |a English. | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
| 650 | 7 | |a Social change. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01122310 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Political participation. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01069386 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Community organization. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01432034 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Community development. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00870818 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a SOCIAL SCIENCE |x Sociology |x General. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 7 | |a POLITICAL SCIENCE |x Public Policy |x City Planning & Urban Development. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 7 | |a community organizations. |2 aat | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Changement social. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Participation politique. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Organisation communautaire. | |
| 650 | 1 | 2 | |a Social Change |
| 650 | 0 | |a Social change. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Political participation. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Community development. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Community organization. | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Electronic books. |2 local | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Shragge, Eric, |d 1948- | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Fisher, Robert, |d 1947- | |
| 710 | 2 | |a Project Muse. |e distributor | |
| 830 | 0 | |a Book collections on Project MUSE. | |
| 856 | 4 | 0 | |z Texto completo |u https://projectmuse.uam.elogim.com/book/95794/ |
| 945 | |a Project MUSE - Custom Collection | ||