LEADER 03499nam 2200697Ia 450 001 9910812314503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-38309-8 010 $a9786613383099 010 $a0-8135-4974-4 024 7 $a10.36019/9780813549743 035 $a(CKB)3170000000046652 035 $a(EBL)864877 035 $a(OCoLC)779141498 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000575753 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11396455 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000575753 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10553316 035 $a(PQKB)10568792 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC864877 035 $a(OCoLC)772000547 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse8050 035 $a(DE-B1597)530003 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780813549743 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL864877 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10523597 035 $a(EXLCZ)993170000000046652 100 $a20090916d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aContesting community $ethe limits and potential of local organizing /$fJames DeFilippis, Robert Fisher, Eric Shragge 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew Brunswick, N.J. $cRutgers University Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (223 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-8135-4755-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$tChapter 1. Community and Its Discontents --$tChapter 2. History Matters: Canons, Anti-canons, and Critical Lessons from the Past --$tChapter 3. The Market, the State, and Community in the Contemporary Political Economy --$tChapter 4. "It Takes a Village": Community as Contemporary Social Reform --$tChapter 5. What's Left in the Community? --$tChapter 6. Radicalizing Community --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tAbout the Authors 330 $aWhat 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. 606 $aCommunity organization 606 $aCommunity development 606 $aPolitical participation 606 $aSocial change 615 0$aCommunity organization. 615 0$aCommunity development. 615 0$aPolitical participation. 615 0$aSocial change. 676 $a307.1/4 700 $aDeFilippis$b James$0981693 701 $aFisher$b Robert$f1947-$01614869 701 $aShragge$b Eric$f1948-$0300017 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910812314503321 996 $aContesting community$93944842 997 $aUNINA