(Cont.) 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 -- Pioneering Moslem women in France / Sophie Body-Gendrot -- The Bay area movement against the Gulf War / Barbara Epstein -- Conclusion: Prospects and strategies for mobilization in the era of global cities / Robert Fisher and Joseph Kling -- Index -- About the contributors. 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 -- 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 / Margit Mayer.
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