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Title:

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

Publisher:

University Press of Kansas,

Copyright Date:

c2007

Description:

xii, 281 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Community organization--United States.
Community development, Urban--United States.
Social participation--United States.

Other Authors:

Orr, Marion, 1962-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Series:

Studies in government and public policy

ISBN:

0700615148 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780700615148 (pbk. : alk. paper)
070061513X (cloth : alk. paper)
9780700615131 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)76820811

LCCN:

2006038461

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)