- Description
- 1 online resource (xv, 234 pages) : illustrations.
- Uniform Title
- Community practice as social activism (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Community practice as social activism (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-225) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Foreword -- Author -- Acknowledgments -- About the author -- Theory, contexts and understandings -- On community practice -- Activism in a changing world : looking back to move forward -- Learning from community projects -- In conclusion -- Practice and power -- Social action and reclaiming power -- Identifying issues and goal-setting -- Research as action -- Mobilization and spreading the message -- Direct action and ?getting the goods? -- Legal strategies, social services, and social movements -- Praxis: from direct action to direct services -- Social movement to social services: from the black panthers to the young lords -- From critique to coexistence with capital: the woodlawn organization and the -- Act up to the world: direct action to direct services -- Harm reduction and human services: experiments in syringe exchange -- The perils of the nonprofit industrial complex -- Diy politics and world-making: mutual aid, anarchism, and alternative solutions -- Multi-issue organizing: from the women's movement to struggles for global -- Community building against inequality: zapatistas, occupations, and transnational advocacy -- References -- Index.
- LCCN
- 2014004080
- OCLC
- ssj0001732978
- Author
Shepard, Benjamin, 1969-
- Title
Community practice as social activism [electronic resource] : from direct action to direct services / Benjamin Shepard, New York City College of Technology, City University of New York ; foreword by Steve Burghardt.
- Imprint
Thousand Oaks, CA : SAGE Publications, Inc., [2015].
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-225) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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