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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779372403321

Autore

Gittell Marilyn

Titolo

Activist scholar [[electronic resource] ] : selected works of Marilyn Gittell / / editors, Ross Gittell, Kathe Newman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Los Angeles, : SAGE, c2012

ISBN

1-322-41882-9

1-4522-6512-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxi, 341 p.) : ill

Altri autori (Persone)

GittellRoss J. <1957->

NewmanKathe

Disciplina

301

Soggetti

Social participation - Research

Political participation - Research

Communities - Research

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Preface; Part I Introduction: Educational Reform and Citizen Participation; 1 - Prologue and Epilogue From Confrontation at Ocean Hill-Brownsville; 2 - Education: The Decentralization-Community Control Controversy; 3 - School Reform in New York and Chicago: Revisiting the Ecology of Local Games; 4 - The Effect of Geography, Education and Labor Market Segregation on Women's Economic Status in New York State; Part II Introduction: Community-Based Organizations and Community Organizing

5 - Chapters 1 and 2 From Limits to Citizen Participation: The Decline of Community Organizations6 - Expanding Civic Opportunity: Urban Empowerment Zones; 7 - Race and Gender in Neighborhood Development Organizations; 8 - Community Organizing, Relationships, Collaboration, and Research: Lessons From the Fund for Community Organizing Initiative; Part III Introduction: Women's Leadership, Social Capital, and Social Change; 9 - Changing Women's Roles in Political Volunteerism and Reform of the City; 10 - Activist Women: Conflicting Ideologies; 11 - The Gender Gap: Coalescing for Power

12 - Social Capital and Social Change: Women's Community Activism

Sommario/riassunto

This title highlights Professor Gittell's writings on community



organizations, citizen participation, urban politics, the politics of education, and gender. She specialized in applied and comparative research on local, regional, national, and international policies and politics, and placed a high priority on training researchers and scholars.