Mobilizing the Community
Local Politics in the Era of the Global City
Edited by:
- Robert Fisher - University of Houston, Texas
- Joe Kling
February 1994 | 368 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
In this age of global transition, contemporary grassroots mobilization is the dominant form of resistance against the state available to the individual and the community. Using empirically-based case studies as well as theoretical essays, this volume offers suggestions for strategy, ideology and leadership that will enhance the potential of grassroots mobilization.
Robert Fisher and Joseph Kling
Introduction
PART ONE: HISTORICAL AND THEORETICAL CONTEXTS
Robert Fisher
Grassroots Organizing Worldwide
Joseph Kling
Complex Society/Complex Cities
Norman Fainstein and Susan S Fainstein
Participation in New York and London
PART TWO: COMMUNITY-BASED MOBILIZATIONS
Sally A Marston and George Towers
Private Spaces and the Politics of Places
Gary Delgado
Building Multiracial Alliances
Ann Withorn and Betty Mandell
Keep on Keeping On
Margit Mayer
The Career of Urban Social Movements in West Germany
Matthew Zachariah
The Silent Valley (Kerala, India) Dam Abandonment
Sonia E Alvarez
`Deepening' Democracy
PART THREE: SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND IDENTITY POLITICS
Judith Allen
Friends and Neighbors
Valerie Lehr
The Difficulty of Leaving `Home'
Sophie Body-Gendrot
Pioneering Muslim Women in France
Barbara Epstein
The Bay Area Movement Against the Gulf War
PART FOUR: CONCLUSION
Robert Fisher and Joseph Kling
Conclusion