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

Contributor(s): Orr, Marion, 1962-Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in government and public policyPublication details: Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, c2007Description: xii, 281 p. : ill., map ; 24 cmISBN: 9780700615131 (cloth : alk. paper); 9780700615148 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Community organization -- United States | Community development, Urban -- United States | Social participation -- United StatesDDC classification: 307.3/4160973 LOC classification: HN90.C6 | T684 2007Online resources: Table of contents only
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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