Community Organizing and Community Building for HealthMeredith Minkler Rutgers University Press, 2005 - 489 pages "This updated and revised edition of a highly praised volume provides meaningful insights into the systems of inequality in the United States - such as race, class, and gender - that impact health. Updated versions of a number of the original chapters, as well as new chapters and appendixes, address areas such as using community organizing to influence policy; using the arts in community building and organizing; online activism; and the role of cultural humility and systems change in building effective partnerships between local health departments and community residents."--Amazon.com overview. |
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Page 53
... organization , grassroots organizing has become the dominant form of popular resist- ance and social change worldwide . Instead of not “ enjoy [ ing ] the currency it once had " ( Rothman with Tropman 1987 , 7 ) , these efforts have ...
... organization , grassroots organizing has become the dominant form of popular resist- ance and social change worldwide . Instead of not “ enjoy [ ing ] the currency it once had " ( Rothman with Tropman 1987 , 7 ) , these efforts have ...
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... organizing efforts . Grassroots efforts were for most activists a democratic means to larger objectives which transcended the local community . This strategy persists , in a more reformist form , in certain notable national efforts ...
... organizing efforts . Grassroots efforts were for most activists a democratic means to larger objectives which transcended the local community . This strategy persists , in a more reformist form , in certain notable national efforts ...
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... organizing efforts in the United States , such as IAF , ACORN and Citizen Action , and in Western Europe , such as the Green parties , illustrates how , while still focusing on the grassroots , they recog- nized the importance of ...
... organizing efforts in the United States , such as IAF , ACORN and Citizen Action , and in Western Europe , such as the Green parties , illustrates how , while still focusing on the grassroots , they recog- nized the importance of ...
Contents
Introduction to Community Organizing | 1 |
Contextual Frameworks and Models | 23 |
Proliferation | 51 |
Copyright | |
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