The Resource Contesting community : the limits and potential of local organizing, James DeFilippis, Robert Fisher, Eric Shragge
Contesting community : the limits and potential of local organizing, James DeFilippis, Robert Fisher, Eric Shragge
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- 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (223 pages)
- Contents
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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
- Isbn
- 9780813547565
- Label
- Contesting community : the limits and potential of local organizing
- Title
- Contesting community
- Title remainder
- the limits and potential of local organizing
- Statement of responsibility
- James DeFilippis, Robert Fisher, Eric Shragge
- Subject
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- Community development
- Community organization
- Community organization
- Electronic books
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy | City Planning & Urban Development
- Political participation
- Political participation
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology | General
- Social Change
- Social change
- Social change
- Community development
- Language
- eng
- 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
- Cataloging source
- EBLCP
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- DeFilippis, James
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
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- 1947-
- 1948-
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
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- Fisher, Robert
- Shragge, Eric
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Community organization
- Community development
- Political participation
- Social change
- POLITICAL SCIENCE
- SOCIAL SCIENCE
- Community development
- Community organization
- Political participation
- Social change
- Social Change
- Label
- Contesting community : the limits and potential of local organizing, James DeFilippis, Robert Fisher, Eric Shragge
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-197) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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
- Control code
- ocn779141498
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (223 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780813547565
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- Other control number
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- 9786613383099
- ebc864877
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt4jv6m3
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)779141498
- Label
- Contesting community : the limits and potential of local organizing, James DeFilippis, Robert Fisher, Eric Shragge
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-197) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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
- Control code
- ocn779141498
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (223 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780813547565
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- Other control number
-
- 9786613383099
- ebc864877
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt4jv6m3
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)779141498
Subject
- Community development
- Community organization
- Community organization
- Electronic books
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy | City Planning & Urban Development
- Political participation
- Political participation
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology | General
- Social Change
- Social change
- Social change
- Community development
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