Format:
1 Online-Ressource (223 pages)
ISBN:
9780813549743
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0813549744
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9780813547558
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0813547555
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9780813547565
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0813547563
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1283383098
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9781283383097
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9786613383099
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6613383090
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-197) and index
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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.
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English
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe DeFilippis, James Contesting Community : The Limits and Potential of Local Organizing Piscataway : Rutgers University Press, ©2010 ISBN 9780813547558
Language:
English
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