Contesting community : the limits and potential of local organizing / James DeFilippis, Robert Fisher, Eric Shragge.

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DeFilippis, James

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Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Piscataway : Rutgers University Press, 2010Description: 1 online resource (223 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780813549743
0813549744
9780813547558
0813547555
9780813547565
0813547563
1283383098
9781283383097
9786613383099
6613383090

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Contesting Community : The Limits and Potential of Local Organizing.DDC classification:

307.1/4 307.14

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HM766

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Contents:

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.

Summary: 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.

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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 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.