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Let the people decide: neighborhood organizing in America
In: Social movements past and present
Mobilizing the community: local politics in the era of the global city
In: Urban affairs annual reviews 41
'We're not delivering government's agenda': The Community Organisers Programme in England
In: The British journal of social work, Volume 51, Issue 2, p. 617-635
ISSN: 1468-263X
Abstract
Community organising is expanding globally. One example is the Community Organisers Programme in England, initiated by the Cameron coalition government from 2011 to 2015. This qualitative study of the Community Organisers Programme juxtaposes critical theory regarding neoliberalism and state devolution with the experiences of fifteen subjects interviewed in 2014 and 2015. The three cohorts included (i) five recruited, salaried and trained community organisers, (ii) five administrative staff from key social service organisations and government and (iii) five external professionals including leading full-time community organisers and/or academic activists recognised in the overall field. The case study confirms expected outcomes regarding the existing theory on neoliberalism and state incorporation. Nevertheless, the interviews revealed both more nuance in relation to the existing theory and literature as well as some surprises in the Community Organisers Programme, which are potentially instructive for future community organising within and outside of social work. Two were (i) the relative absence of bureaucratic burden from the government and sense of autonomy felt by the community organisers and staff and (ii) the progressive potential of adding public funding of community organising to diversify and expand the funding mix in response to our extraordinarily challenging contemporary context.
A People's History of the New Boston. By Jim Vrabel. Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2014. Pp. 288. $80.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper)
In: Social service review: SSR, Volume 89, Issue 2, p. 412-416
ISSN: 1537-5404
Fabricant, Michael B. Organizing for Educational Justice: The Campaign for Public School Reform in the South Bronx. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010. 268 pp. US$22.95 (paperback)
In: Working USA: the journal of labor & society, Volume 15, Issue 4, p. 617-621
ISSN: 1743-4580
Organizing Urban America: Secular and Faith‐Based Progressive Movements. By Heidi J. Swarts. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. Pp. 336. $75.00 (cloth); $25.00 (paper)
In: Social service review: SSR, Volume 83, Issue 3, p. 477-480
ISSN: 1537-5404
Social Capital and Poor Communities. Edited by Susan Saegert, J. Phillip Thompson, and Mark R. Warren. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2001. Pp. 296. $39.95 (cloth)
In: Social service review: SSR, Volume 77, Issue 4, p. 631-635
ISSN: 1537-5404
'Speaking for the Contribution of History": Context and the Origins of the Social Welfare History Group
In: Social service review: SSR, Volume 73, Issue 2, p. 191-217
ISSN: 1537-5404
The erosion of Japanese pacifism: the constitutionality of the 1997 U.S.-Japan defense guidelines
In: Cornell international law journal, Volume 32, Issue 2, p. 393-430
ISSN: 0010-8812
Social Services and Community in the New Private City
In: Urban affairs review, Volume 31, Issue 4, p. 554-561
ISSN: 1552-8332
Political Social Work
In: Journal of social work education: JSWE, Volume 31, Issue 2, p. 194-203
ISSN: 2163-5811
Urban Policy in Houston, Texas
In: Urban studies, Volume 26, Issue 1, p. 144-154
ISSN: 1360-063X
Neighborhood Organizing and Urban Revitalization: An Historical Perspective
In: Journal of urban affairs, Volume 7, Issue 1, p. 47-54
ISSN: 1467-9906
Nonmetropolitan America in Transition
In: Social science quarterly, Volume 64, Issue 3
ISSN: 0038-4941