9780813547565-0813547563-Contesting Community: The Limits and Potential of Local Organizing

Contesting Community: The Limits and Potential of Local Organizing

ISBN-13: 9780813547565
ISBN-10: 0813547563
Edition: Edition Unstated
Author: Robert Fisher, Professor James DeFilippis, Professor Eric Shragge
Publication date: 2010
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Format: Paperback 224 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780813547565
ISBN-10: 0813547563
Edition: Edition Unstated
Author: Robert Fisher, Professor James DeFilippis, Professor Eric Shragge
Publication date: 2010
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Format: Paperback 224 pages

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Contesting Community: The Limits and Potential of Local Organizing (ISBN-13: 9780813547565 and ISBN-10: 0813547563), written by authors Robert Fisher, Professor James DeFilippis, Professor Eric Shragge, was published by Rutgers University Press in 2010. With an overall rating of 3.7 stars, it's a notable title among other Urban Planning & Development (Social Sciences, Urban, Sociology) books. You can easily purchase or rent Contesting Community: The Limits and Potential of Local Organizing (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Urban Planning & Development books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.33.

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What 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.
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