{"product_id":"contesting-community-james-defilippis-9780813547565","title":"Contesting Community: The Limits and Potential of Local Organizing","description":"What do community organizations and organizers do, and what should they do? For the past thirty years politicians, academics, advocates, and activists have heralded community as a site and strategy for social change. In contrast, \u003ci\u003eContesting Community\u003c\/i\u003e paints a more critical picture of community work which, according to the authors--in both theory and practice--has amounted to less than the sum of its parts. Their comparative study of efforts in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada describes and analyzes the limits and potential of this work. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Covering dozens of groups, including ACORN, Brooklyn's Fifth Avenue Committee, and the Immigrant Workers Centre in Montreal, and discussing alternative models, this book is at once historical and contemporary, global and local. \u003ci\u003eContesting Community\u003c\/i\u003e addresses one of the vital issues of our day--the role and meaning of community in people's lives and in the larger political economy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e James Defilippis, Robert Fisher, Eric Shragge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0813547563\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813547565\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Rutgers University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/19\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.74lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.51d","brand":"James Defilippis","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926405349631,"sku":"9780813547565","price":41.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_a193e145-eccf-4ed9-b675-53bdb16564bc.jpg?v=1681082904","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/contesting-community-james-defilippis-9780813547565","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}