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 ACORN, Brooklyn's Fifth Avenue
Committee, and the Immigrant Workers Centre in Montreal, and
discussing alternative models, this book is at once historical and
contemporary, global and local. "Contesting Community" addresses
one of the vital issues of our day--the role and meaning of
community in people's lives and in the larger political
economy.
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