What do community organizations and organizers do, and what should they do? 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.It 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 ...
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What do community organizations and organizers do, and what should they do? 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.It 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.
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Very good. Ex-library. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 224 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white. Audience: General/trade. LCCN 2009038464 Type of material Book Personal name DeFilippis, James. Main title Contesting community: the limits and potential of local organizing / James DeFilippis, Robert Fisher, Eric Shragge. Published/Created New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2010. Description ix, 210 p.; 24 cm. ISBN 9780813547558 (hardcover: alk. paper) 0813547555 (hardcover: alk. paper) 9780813547565 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0813547563 (pbk. : alk. paper) LC classification HM766. D44 2010 Related names Fisher, Robert, 1947-Shragge, Eric, 1948-LC Subjects Community organization. Community development. Political participation. Social change. Notes Includes bibliographical references and index. Dewey class no. 307.1/4 Other system no. (OCoLC)ocn438055019
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