Transforming the city : community organizing and the challenge of political change / edited by Marion Orr.

Other author Orr, Marion, 1962-
Format Book
Publication InfoLawrence : University Press of Kansas, ©2007.
Descriptionxii, 281 pages ; 23 cm.
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects

SeriesStudies in government and public policy
Studies in government and public policy. ^A224536
Contents Community organizing and the changing ecology of civic engagement / Marion Orr -- Running in place : Saul Alinsky, race, and community organizing / Mark Santow -- Community organizing in a nonregime city : the New Orleans experience / Peter F. Burns -- Division and fragmentation : the El Paso experience in global-local perspective / Kathleen Staudt and Clarence N. Stone -- Community organizing and No Child Left Behind / Dennis Shirley and Michael Evans -- Political opportunity, venue shopping, and strategic innovation : ACORN's national organizing / Heidi Swarts -- Higher power : strategic capacity for state and national organizing / Richard L. Wood -- Contextualizing community organizing : lessons from the past, tensions in the present, opportunities for the future / Robert Fisher and Eric Shragge -- Community organizing for what? progressive politics and movement building in America / Peter Dreier -- Summing up : community organizing and political change in the city / Marion Orr.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2006038461
ISBN9780700615131 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN070061513X (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780700615148 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0700615148 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks HN90.C6 T684 2007 ✔ Available Place Hold