商品簡介
"This book could not be more timely. DeFilippis, Fisher, and Shragge give us a seriously analytical yet readable discussion of the possibilities and limits of locally based organizing. A major contribution to the ongoing debates about community and social movement organizing."-Frances Fox Piven, author of Challenging Authority: How Ordinary People Change America
"This book offers the most incisive, compelling treatment of community organizing that I have seen. As a study of the strategic challenges of community-based action, it is not only authoritative but also highly original in its combination of sure-handed historical grasp, careful intellectual critique, and practical engagement with important community efforts taking place on the ground."---William Sites, University of Chicago
What do community organizations and organizers do, and what should they do? For three decades politicians, academics, advocates, and activists have heralded community as a site and strategy for social change. 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.
作者簡介
James DeFilippis is an associate professor in the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University. He is the author of Unmaking Goliath, named Best Book in Urban Politics by the American Political Science Association.
Robert Fisher is a professor at the University of Connecticut School of Social Work. He is the author of several books on community organizing.
Eric Shragge teaches in the School of Community and Public Affairs, Concordia University, Montreal, and is the author and editor of several works on community organizing and development.
