Activism and Social Change - Lessons for Community Organizing

Drawing on over 30 years of experience in community development practice, Shragge offers a historical look at community organizing and local activism from its development in the 1960s to the contemporary practices of today's youth activists.

List of contents

1. Looking Back: Lessons and Issues 2. Exploring Models and Theory 3. Learning from History 4. Social Action and its Legacy for Social Change 5. Community as Containment? 6. Lessons from Practice I: Organizers Talk 7. Lessons from Practice II: The Immigrant Workers Centre Experience 8. Towards a Conclusion: Community Organizing and Social Change

About the author

Eric Shragge is Principal of the School of Community and Public Affairs at Concordia University.

Summary

Drawing on over thirty years of experience in community development practice, Eric Shragge offers a unique historical perspective on activism, linking various forms of local organizing to the broader goal of fundamental social change.

Product details

• Authors: Eric Shragge, Eric Shragge
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.06.2013
• EAN: 9781442607705
• ISBN: 978-1-4426-0770-5
• No. of pages: 192
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system