The state and community action /

Examines the role of the state in Europe and the US, and challenges the belief that community development, in its present form, has any potential to effect real social change.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Robson, Terry, 1942-
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: London ; Sterling, Va : Pluto Press 2000.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt18fs86z
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. The Theoretical Context 1. The State and Hegemony 2. Coercion, Community and Civil Society 3. Community as Counter-Hegemony 4. The Co-option of Radicalism 5. Community, Catholicism and Communitarianism Part II. The Case Studies 6. Northern Ireland: The Evolution of a Counter- Hegemony 7. The United States: Poverty and the Catholic Worker Movement 8. Romania: Charity as Social Control.