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Power & Community (Hardcover, Annotated Ed) Loot Price: R2,869
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Power & Community (Hardcover, Annotated Ed): Dennis Altman

Power & Community (Hardcover, Annotated Ed)

Dennis Altman

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This book provides a global overview of the role of the community sector, examining in detail the origins and activities of community organizations in Europe, the Americas, Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Australia and the Pacific. It also describes the impact of sexuality and gender on AIDS activism and AIDS organizing, as well as broader cultural responses to the epidemic. It charts the emergence and development of the community sector response to HIV and AIDS, illustrating the factors that led affected individuals and communities to organize, question, challenge and redefine initial governmental responses to the epidemic. It describes the contribution of the community / NGO sector to global efforts to prevent the spread of the disease, highlighting tensions which have sometimes arisen within community based organizations themselves: tensions between activism and service provision, between altruism and self help, between volunteer participation and management control, and between fluidity of function and increasing bureaucratization. "Power and Community" has grown out of the author's intellectual and political commitment to the idea that without support from strong community

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Imprint: Taylor & Francis
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: July 1994
First published: 1995
Authors: Dennis Altman
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 179
Edition: Annotated Ed
ISBN-13: 978-0-7484-0193-2
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social welfare & social services > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Illness & addiction: social aspects > AIDS: social aspects
Books > Medicine > Clinical & internal medicine > Diseases & disorders > Infectious & contagious diseases > HIV / AIDS
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LSN: 0-7484-0193-8
Barcode: 9780748401932

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