03499nam 2200697Ia 450 991081231450332120200520144314.01-283-38309-897866133830990-8135-4974-410.36019/9780813549743(CKB)3170000000046652(EBL)864877(OCoLC)779141498(SSID)ssj0000575753(PQKBManifestationID)11396455(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000575753(PQKBWorkID)10553316(PQKB)10568792(MiAaPQ)EBC864877(OCoLC)772000547(MdBmJHUP)muse8050(DE-B1597)530003(DE-B1597)9780813549743(Au-PeEL)EBL864877(CaPaEBR)ebr10523597(EXLCZ)99317000000004665220090916d2010 uy 0engurnn#---|u||utxtccrContesting community the limits and potential of local organizing /James DeFilippis, Robert Fisher, Eric Shragge1st ed.New Brunswick, N.J. Rutgers University Pressc20101 online resource (223 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8135-4755-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Acknowledgments --Introduction --Chapter 1. Community and Its Discontents --Chapter 2. History Matters: Canons, Anti-canons, and Critical Lessons from the Past --Chapter 3. The Market, the State, and Community in the Contemporary Political Economy --Chapter 4. "It Takes a Village": Community as Contemporary Social Reform --Chapter 5. What's Left in the Community? --Chapter 6. Radicalizing Community --Bibliography --Index --About the AuthorsWhat 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 ACORN, Brooklyn's Fifth Avenue Committee, and the Immigrant Workers Centre in Montreal, and discussing alternative models, this book is at once historical and contemporary, global and local. 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.Community organizationCommunity developmentPolitical participationSocial changeCommunity organization.Community development.Political participation.Social change.307.1/4DeFilippis James981693Fisher Robert1947-1614869Shragge Eric1948-300017MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910812314503321Contesting community3944842UNINA