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Contesting Community
The Limits and Potential of Local Organizing
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Artikel-Nr:
9780813547565
Veröffentl:
2010
Erscheinungsdatum:
19.05.2010
Seiten:
224
Autor:
James Defilippis
Gewicht:
349 g
Format:
231x154x19 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
DeFilippis, James
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.
Acknowledgments Introduction 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 Bibliography Index