Contesting community : the limits and potential of local organizing /
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...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Piscataway :
Rutgers University Press,
2010.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt5hj14b |
Table of 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.