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Contesting Community : The Limits and Potential of Local Organizing / James DeFilippis, Robert Fisher, Eric Shragge.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2010]Copyright date: ©2010Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780813547558
  • 9780813549743
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 307.1/4 22
LOC classification:
  • HM766 .D44 2010
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Community and Its Discontents -- Chapter 2. History Matters: Canons, Anti-canons, and Critical Lessons from the Past -- Chapter 3. The Market, the State, and Community in the Contemporary Political Economy -- Chapter 4. "It Takes a Village": Community as Contemporary Social Reform -- Chapter 5. What's Left in the Community? -- Chapter 6. Radicalizing Community -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Authors
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 ACORN, Brooklyn's Fifth Avenue Committee, and the Immigrant Workers Centre in Montreal, and discussing alternative models, this book is at once historical and contemporary, global and local. Contesting Community addresses one of the vital issues of our day--the role and meaning of community in people's lives and in the larger political economy.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Community and Its Discontents -- Chapter 2. History Matters: Canons, Anti-canons, and Critical Lessons from the Past -- Chapter 3. The Market, the State, and Community in the Contemporary Political Economy -- Chapter 4. "It Takes a Village": Community as Contemporary Social Reform -- Chapter 5. What's Left in the Community? -- Chapter 6. Radicalizing Community -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Authors

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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 ACORN, Brooklyn's Fifth Avenue Committee, and the Immigrant Workers Centre in Montreal, and discussing alternative models, this book is at once historical and contemporary, global and local. Contesting Community addresses one of the vital issues of our day--the role and meaning of community in people's lives and in the larger political economy.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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