TY  - GEN
T1  - Contesting community : the limits and potential of local organizing
A1  - DeFilippis, James
A2  - Fisher, Robert, 1947-
A2  - Shragge, Eric, 1948-
LA  - English
PP  - Piscataway
PB  - Rutgers University Press
YR  - 2010
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn779141498
AB  - 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.
OP  - 223
CN  - HM766
SN  - 9780813549743
SN  - 0813549744
SN  - 9780813547558
SN  - 0813547555
SN  - 9780813547565
SN  - 0813547563
SN  - 1283383098
SN  - 9781283383097
SN  - 9786613383099
SN  - 6613383090
KW  - Community organization.
KW  - Community development.
KW  - Political participation.
KW  - Social change.
KW  - Social Change
KW  - Organisation communautaire.
KW  - Participation politique.
KW  - Changement social.
KW  - Développement communautaire.
KW  - community organizations.
KW  - community development.
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE : Public Policy : City Planning & Urban Development.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Sociology : General.
KW  - Community development
KW  - Community organization
KW  - Political participation
KW  - Social change
ER  -