Urban Action Networks - Hiv/aids and Community Organizing in New York City

Urban Action Networks is a study of how communities organize in response to threats to their lives and well being. As HIV/AIDS wreaked havoc on the worlds of some of the most marginal and disenfranchised people in New York, they came together to create a shared response, forming a new organizational field within which their various efforts were coordinated. How the communities of the most affected people organized, reorganized, and redefined the social and political context of HIV/AIDS offers an encouraging glimpse into the way in which marginal communities can convert shared needs into collective action.

List of contents

Chapter 1 Introduction: Boundaries and Borders Chapter 2 Formal and Informal Responses, 1981-1991 Chapter 3 A New Field of Work Chapter 4 Collective Identity and Re-organization Chapter 5 HIV/AIDS, Drug Use, and Zero Tolerance, 1985-1990 Chapter 6 The ACT UP Years Chapter 7 A New State-Centered Strategy Chapter 8 Urban Action Networks Chapter 9 Afterword

About the author

Howard Lune is associate professor of Sociology at Hunter College, CUNY.

Summary

As HIV/AIDS wreaked havoc on the worlds of some of the most marginal and disenfranchised people in New York, they came together to create a shared response, forming an organizational field within which their various efforts were coordinated. This work offers a study of how communities organize in response to threats to their lives and well being.

Product details

• Authors: Howard Lune, Lune Howard
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.12.2006
• EAN: 9780742540842
• ISBN: 978-0-7425-4084-2
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; New York, MEDICAL / AIDS & HIV, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, Social welfare & social services, Social welfare and social services, HIV / AIDS, Medicine: HIV/AIDS, retroviral diseases, New York (state)