Buch, Englisch, Band 41, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 458 g
Reihe: Urban Affairs Annual Reviews
Local Politics in the Era of the Global City
Buch, Englisch, Band 41, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 458 g
Reihe: Urban Affairs Annual Reviews
ISBN: 978-0-8039-4248-6
Verlag: Sage Publications, Inc
In an era of global transition, contemporary grassroots organizing represents the dominant form of resistance available to people who seek to control their lives. It is the basis for restoring public life, empowering individuals and communities, and challenging the state and the capital. Through empirically based case studies and theoretical essays, Mobilizing the Community discusses strategies, tactics, ideology, and leadership often used in grassroots mobilization. It covers citizen initiatives, ethnic self-help organizations, community-based development and service delivery programs, political lobbying and advocacy efforts, political party building, and direct action protest groups. The empowerment of various groups--middle-class suburbanites, the poor, women, gay men, lesbian women, communists, neopopulists, workers, immigrants, hispanics, and blacks--is addressed. This comprehensive volume provides powerful suggestions to scholars, practitioners, and analysts of urban studies and political science, as well as activists. "This is a very useful volume. Its emphasis on the process of community organizing leads to a focus on tactics, strategy, resource acquisition and alliance formation. This compliments the more usual survey studies of movement participants which tend to be static and give equal weight to each individual." --Housing Studies
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Introduction - Robert Fisher and Joseph Kling
The Continued Vitality of Community Mobilization
PART ONE: HISTORICAL AND THEORETICAL CONTEXTS
Grassroots Organizing Worldwide - Robert Fisher
Common Origins, Historical Roots, and the Tension between Democracy and the State
Complex Society/Complex Cities - Joseph Kling
New Social Movements and the Restructuring of Urban Space
Participation in New York and London - Norman Fainstein and Susan S Fainstein
Community and Market Under Capitalism
PART TWO: COMMUNITY-BASED MOBILIZATIONS
Private Spaces and the Politics of Places - Sally A Marston and George Towers
Spatio-Economic Restructuring and Community Organizing in Tucson and El Paso
Building Multiracial Alliances - Gary Delgado
The Case of People United for a Better Oakland
Keep on Keeping On - Ann Withorn and Betty Mandell
Organizing for Welfare Rights in Massachusetts
The Career of Urban Social Movements in West Germany - Margit Mayer
The Silent Valley (Kerala, India) Dam Abandonment - Matthew Zachariah
A Case of Successful Community Mobilization
`Deepening' Democracy - Sonia E Alvarez
Social Movement Networks, Constitutional Reform, and Radical Urban Regimes in Contemporary Brazil
PART THREE: SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND IDENTITY POLITICS
Friends and Neighbors - Judith Allen
Knowledge and Campaigning in London
The Difficulty of Leaving `Home' - Valerie Lehr
Gay and Lesbian Organizing to Confront AIDS
Pioneering Muslim Women in France - Sophie Body-Gendrot
The Bay Area Movement Against the Gulf War - Barbara Epstein
PART FOUR: CONCLUSION
Conclusion - Robert Fisher and Joseph Kling
Prospects and Strategies for Mobilization in the Era of Global Cities
