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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
The Continued Vitality of Community Mobilization
PART ONE: HISTORICAL AND THEORETICAL CONTEXTS
Robert Fisher
Grassroots Organizing Worldwide
Common Origins, Historical Roots, and the Tension between Democracy and the State
Joseph Kling
Complex Society/Complex Cities
New Social Movements and the Restructuring of Urban Space
Norman Fainstein and Susan S Fainstein
Participation in New York and London
Community and Market Under Capitalism
PART TWO: COMMUNITY-BASED MOBILIZATIONS
Sally A Marston and George Towers
Private Spaces and the Politics of Places
Spatio-Economic Restructuring and Community Organizing in Tucson and El Paso
Gary Delgado
Building Multiracial Alliances
The Case of People United for a Better Oakland
Ann Withorn and Betty Mandell
Keep on Keeping On
Organizing for Welfare Rights in Massachusetts
Margit Mayer
The Career of Urban Social Movements in West Germany
Matthew Zachariah
The Silent Valley (Kerala, India) Dam Abandonment
A Case of Successful Community Mobilization
Sonia E Alvarez
`Deepening' Democracy
Social Movement Networks, Constitutional Reform, and Radical Urban Regimes in Contemporary Brazil
PART THREE: SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND IDENTITY POLITICS
Judith Allen
Friends and Neighbors
Knowledge and Campaigning in London
Valerie Lehr
The Difficulty of Leaving `Home'
Gay and Lesbian Organizing to Confront AIDS
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
Prospects and Strategies for Mobilization in the Era of Global Cities