Community Organizing und Burgergesellschaft

In: Neue soziale Bewegungen: Forschungsjournal, Band 20, Heft 2, S. 161-165

Abstract

'Community Organizing' shall enable enduring self-organized activism. Civil society is understood as a political sphere & participation is claimed where engagement is also a service; it also includes systematically the weak. Civil society should be self organized from the bottom, in order to cooperate with state & market from eye to eye -- a cooperation which also includes dealing with conflicts for reaching common aims. The concept Community Organizing' is presented & exemplified by a case study of Berlin- Schoneweide. References. Adapted from the source document.