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In: Journal of community practice: organizing, planning, development, and change sponsored by the Association for Community Organization and Social Administration (ACOSA), Volume 8, Issue 3, p. 1-19
ISSN: 1543-3706
In: Journal of sociology & social welfare, Volume 26, Issue 3
ISSN: 1949-7652
In: Journal of community practice: organizing, planning, development, and change sponsored by the Association for Community Organization and Social Administration (ACOSA), Volume 4, Issue 1, p. 31-56
ISSN: 1543-3706
In: Urban affairs quarterly, Volume 25, Issue 2, p. 200-211
In this brief essay, we seek to add to the discussion on the prospects of community mobilization by offering four major points. The impact of human agency, not only structural conditions, must be considered. Currently, there are distinct signs of grass-roots mobilization and a returning activist consciousness. These trends and events must be seen, however, against the broad restructuring of cities, which has dramatically altered the context for organizers and presented new, formidable barriers. Lastly, the sharpening of ideological cleavage is fundamental to mobilize constituencies and bridge the community/class dichotomy that continues to limit most efforts.
In: Journal of Product Innovation Management, Volume 7, Issue 1, March 1990, Pages 35-44
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In: Journal of consumer research: JCR ; an interdisciplinary journal, Volume 41, Issue 2, p. 436-450
ISSN: 1537-5277
In: Journal of consumer research: JCR ; an interdisciplinary journal, Volume 31, Issue 4, p. 850-858
ISSN: 1537-5277
In: Journal of consumer research: JCR ; an interdisciplinary journal, Volume 25, Issue 3, p. 262-275
ISSN: 1537-5277
In: SAIS review / the Johns Hopkins Foreign Policy Institute of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS): a journal of international affairs, Volume 12, Issue 1, p. 43-67
ISSN: 1946-4444
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In: Radical America, Volume 21, Issue 1, p. 31-45
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 ACOR