Community Organizing and Community Building for Health and Social Equity, 4th edition / / ed. by Meredith Minkler, Patricia Wakimoto.
The fourth edition of Community Organizing and Community Building for Health and Social Equity provides both classic and recent contributions to the field, with a special accent on how these approaches can contribute to health and social equity. The 23 chapters offer conceptual frameworks, skill- bu...
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Foreword
- Part One
- Introduction
- 1 Introduction to Community Organizing and Community
- 2. Why Organize? Problems and Promise in the Inner City
- Part Two
- Contextual Frameworks and Approaches
- 3. Improving Health through Community Organizing and Community Building: Perspectives from Health Education and Social Work
- 4. Anti-racism Praxis: A Community Organizing Approach for Achieving Health and Social Equity
- 5. Contrasting Organizing Approaches: The “Alinsky Tradition” and Freirian Organizing Approaches
- 6. It’s All Organizing, It’s All Love: Building People’s Power in Jackson, Mississippi
- Part Three
- Building Effective Partnerships and Anticipating and Addressing Ethical Challenges
- 7. Community, Community Organizing, and the Forming of Authentic Partnerships: Looking Back, Looking Ahead
- 8. Ethical Issues in Community Organizing and Capacity Building
- 9. Communities Driving Change: A Case Study from King County’s Communities of Opportunity
- Part Four
- Community Assessment and Issue Selection
- 10. Community Health Assessment or Healthy Community Assessment: Whose Community? Whose Health? Whose Assessment?
- 11. Mapping Community Capacity
- 12. Selecting the Issue
- Part Five. Community Organizing and Community Building within and across Diverse Groups and Cultures
- 13. Education, Participation, and Capacity Building in Community Organizing with Women of Color
- 14. Mobilizing Black Barbershops and Beauty Salons to Eliminate Health Disparities: Lessons Learned on the Road to Health Equity during a Global Pandemic
- 15. Popular Education, Participatory Research, and Community Organizing with Immigrant Restaurant Workers in San Francisco’s Chinatown: A Case Study
- Part Six
- Using the Arts and the Internet as Tools for Community Organizing and Community Building
- 16. Creating an Online Strategy to Enhance Effective Community Building and Organizing: Harnessing the Power of the Internet
- 17. Using the Arts in Community Organizing and Community Building: An Overview and Case Studies
- Part Seven
- Building, Maintaining, and Evaluating Effective Coalitions and Community Organizing Efforts
- 18. Community Coalition Action Theory: Designing and Evaluating Community Collaboratives
- 19. Addressing Food Insecurity and Tobacco Control through a Neighborhood Coalition: Applying Community Coalition Action Theory and Principles for Collaborating for Equity and Justice
- 20. Funding for Community Organizing: Tips for Raising Money While Promoting New Thinking in the Funding Environment
- 21. Participatory Approaches to Evaluating Community Building and Organizing for Community and Social Change
- Part Eight
- Influencing Policy through Community Organizing and Media Advocacy
- 22. Moving the Policy Dial through Equity-Focused Community Organizing
- 23. Abolition as a Public Health Intervention: Building Multisector Momentum for Community Care and Criminal Legal System Policy Change
- 24. Media Advocacy: A Potent Strategy for Engaging Communities in the Fight for Equitable Public Policy
- Appendixes
- 1. Challenging Ourselves: Critical Self-Reflection on Power and Privilege
- 2. Community Mapping and Digital Technology: Tools for Organizers
- 3. Action-Oriented Community Diagnosis Procedure
- 4. Sample Community Health Indicators for Use in Health Impact Assessment
- 5. Skywatchers’ Values-Based Methodology and Guidance for Practice
- 6. Ladder of Community Participation in Public Health
- 7. Member Assessment of Coalition Process and Outcomes
- 8. Issue-Development Worksheet
- Choosing Tactics and Framing the Action: Key Questions and Considerations for Getting It Right
- 10. Engaging Coalition and Community Organization Members in a “River of Life” Exercise to Create a Historical Timeline
- 11, Using Force Field Analysis, SWOT Analysis, and Power Mapping as Strategic Tools in Organizing
- 12. Scale for Measuring Perceptions of Control at the Individual, Organizational, Neighborhood, and Beyond-the-Neighborhood Levels
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
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