Format:
Online-Ressource (xxxii, 298 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0816648387
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9780816648382
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0816648395
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9780816648399
Series Statement:
Social movements, protest, and contention v. 28
Content:
Heidi J. Swarts explores activist groupsÕ cultural, organizational, and political strategies. Focusing on ACORN chapters and church federations, Swarts demonstrates how congregation-based organizing has developed an innovative cultural strategy, and how ACORNÕs national structure allows it to coordinate campaigns quickly. By making these often-invisible grassroots organizers evident, Swarts sheds light on factors that constrain or enable other social movements in the United States
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction. Invisible Actors: Community Organizing, Agenda Setting, and American Social Movements; 1. Different Mobilizing Cultures: Congregation-based Organizing and ACORN; 2. Religion and Progressive Politics: Congregation-based Community Organizing's Innovative Cultural Strategy; 3. Experimenting with National Organizing Campaigns: ACORN's Innovative Political Strategy; 4. Organizing Is a Numbers Game: St. Louis ACORN; 5. A Seat at the Regional Table: Metropolitan Congregations United for St. Louis; 6. La Puebla Unida: ACORN in the Sunbelt
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7. The Power Is in the Relationship: San Jose PACT8. The Results of Organizing; 9. American Inequality and the Potential of Community Organizing; Appendix A: Excerpts from "PICO Principles"; Appendix B: Methodological Appendix; Appendix C: Policy Outcomes for Selected National and Local Organizations since 1990; Appendix D: Agenda Setting: Selected Proposals Introduced by Four Community Organizations since 1990; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780816648382
Additional Edition:
Print version Organizing Urban America : Secular and Faith-based Progressive Movements
Language:
English
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