Mobilizing the community : local politics in the era of the global city

Mobilizing the community : local politics in the era of the global city / edited by Robert Fisher, Joseph Kling.

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Other Authors: Fisher, Robert, 1947-, Kling, Joseph M.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Newbury Park [Calif.] : SAGE Publications, c1993.
Series:Urban affairs annual reviews ; v. 41.
Subjects:
Community development.
Community organization > Citizen particpation.
Social movements > Cross-cultural studies.
Municipal government > Citizen participation.
Urbanization > Cross-cultural studies.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The continued vitality of community mobilization / Robert Fisher and Joseph King
  • Part 1. Historical and theoretical contexts: Grass-roots organizing worldwide: Common ground, historical roots, and the tension between democracy and the state / Robert Fisher
  • Complex society / complex cities: New social movements and the restructuring of urban space / Joseph Kling
  • Participation in New York and London: Community and market under capitalism / Norman Fainstein and Susan S. Fainstein
  • Part 2. Community-based mobilizations: Private spaces and the politics of places: Spatioeconomic restructuring and community organizing in Tucson and El Paso / Sallie A. Marston and George Towers .
  • (Cont.) Building multiracial alliances: The case of people united for a better Oakland / Gary Delgado
  • Keep on keeping on : Organizing for welfare rights in Massachusetts / Betty Reid Mandell and Ann Withorn -the career of urban social movements in West Germany /-The silent valley (Kerala, India) dam abandonment: A case of successful community mobilization / Mathew Zachariah
  • "Deepening" democracy: Popular movement networks, constitutional reform, and radical urban regimes in contemporary Brazil / Sonia E. Alvarez
  • Part 3. Identity politics and social movements: Friends and neighbors: Knowledge and campaigning in London / Judith Allen
  • The difficulty of leaving "Home": gay and lesbian organizing to confront AIDS / Valerie Lehr .
  • (Cont.) Pioneering Moslem women in France / Sophie Body-Gendrot
  • The Bay area movement against the Gulf War / Barbara Epstein
  • Conclusion: Prospects and strateegies for mobilization in the era of global cities / Robert Fisher and Joseph Kling
  • Index
  • About the contributors.

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