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Zusatztext "Eliasoph . . . concludes the book with an excellent (if difficult) series of recommendations for stakeholders involved in the world of empowerment projects as they currently exist. Project organizers, external funders, and government administrators should heed them. Projects with fewer contradiction-laden, empowerment-talk-driven, mega-events and more frank recognition of real needs and structural differences could avoid current harms and perhaps even reach some positive outcomes." ---Matthew Baggetta, Public Administration Informationen zum Autor Nina Eliasoph is associate professor of sociology at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Avoiding Politics . Klappentext "This book is a pleasure to read--smart! insightful! tragic! ironic! and funny. Eliasoph brings to life the complicated relationships and dilemmas that surface in youth programs! and the twists and turns of the author's analysis are extremely compelling. This book is a must-read for those participating in NGOs! those trumpeting the virtues of volunteer work! and those social scientists interested in questions of government! community building! and civic culture."--Lynne Haney! New York University "This clear and engaging book shows how community organizations really work. Nina Eliasoph tackles tensions that run through well-meaning organizations and lives! and she illustrates how people struggle with inequality! differences! having to be nice! and wanting to promote community but accomplishing much less than they desire or realize."--Robert Wuthnow! Princeton University Zusammenfassung Exploring contradictions between the democratic rhetoric of empowerment programs and the bureaucratic hurdles that volunteers learn to navigate, this book demonstrates that empowerment projects work best with less precarious funding, more careful planning, and mandatory training, reflection, and long-term commitments from volunteers. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Empower Yourself ix Chapter 1: How to Learn Something in an Empowerment Project 1 Part One: Cultivating Open Civic Equality Chapter 2: Participating under Unequal Auspices 17 Chapter 3: "The Spirit that Moves Inside You": Puzzles of Using Volunteering to Cure the Volunteer's Problems 48 Chapter 4: Temporal Leapfrog: Puzzles of Timing 55 Chapter 5: Democracy Minus Disagreement! Civic Skills Minus Politics! Blank "Reflections" 87 Part Two: Cultivating Intimate Comfort and Safety Chapter 6: Harmless and Destructive Plug-in Volunteers 117 Chapter 7: Paid Organizers Creating Temporally Finite! Intimate! Family-like Attachments 146 Chapter 8:: Publicly Questioning Need: Food! Safety! and Comfort 152 Chapter 9:: Drawing on Shared Experience in a Divided Society: Getting People Out of Their "Clumps" 165 Part Three: Celebrating Our Diverse! Multicultural Community Chapter 10: "Getting Out of Your Box" versus "Preserving a Culture": Two Opposed Ways of "Appreciating Cultural Diversity" 183 Chapter 11: Tell Us about Your Culture: What Participants Count as "Culture" 190 Chapter 12: Celebrating ... Empowerment Projects! 206 Conclusion: Finding Patterns in the "Open and Undefined" Organization 231 Appendix 1: On Justification 259 Appendix 2: Methods of Taking Field Notes and Making Them Tell a Story 261 Notes 265 References 281 Index 303 ...
