Organizing urban America [[electronic resource] ] : secular and faith-based progressive movements / / Heidi J. Swarts
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Swarts Heidi J
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| Titolo: |
Organizing urban America [[electronic resource] ] : secular and faith-based progressive movements / / Heidi J. Swarts
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| Pubblicazione: | Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2008 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (333 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 307.3/4160973 |
| Soggetto topico: | Community organization - United States |
| Community development, Urban - United States | |
| Urban renewal - United States - Citizen participation | |
| Religion and politics - United States | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Introduction. Invisible actors : community organizing, agenda setting, and American social movements -- Different mobilizing cultures : congregation-based organizing and ACORN -- Religion and progressive politics : congregation-based Community Organizing's innovative cultural strategy -- Experimenting with national organizing campaigns : ACORN's innovative political strategy -- Organizing is a numbers game : St. Louis ACORN -- A seat at the regional table : Metropolitan Congregations United for St. Louis -- La puebla unida : ACORN in the Sunbelt -- The power is in the relationship : San Jose PACT -- The results of organizing -- American inequality and the potential of community organizing. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Heidi J. Swarts explores activist groupsÕ cultural, organizational, and political strategies. Focusing on ACORN chapters and church federations, Swarts demonstrates how congregation-based organizing has developed an innovative cultural strategy, and how ACORNÕs national structure allows it to coordinate campaigns quickly. By making these often-invisible grassroots organizers evident, Swarts sheds light on factors that constrain or enable other social movements in the United States. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Organizing urban America |
| ISBN: | 0-8166-5384-4 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910781838803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Social movements, protest, and contention ; ; v. 28.