Contesting Community : : The Limits and Potential of Local Organizing /

Contesting Community : : The Limits and Potential of Local Organizing / / James DeFilippis, Robert Fisher, Eric Shragge.

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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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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DeFilippis, James,
Fisher, Robert,
Shragge, Eric,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2010]
©2010
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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 Authors

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