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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Foundations of Community Organizing | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Privatization, Globalization, and Resistance | |
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| Capabilities Approach | |
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| Defining Community Organizing | |
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| What Is Community? | |
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| What Is Organizing? | |
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| Organizing Versus Other Interventions | |
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| A Critical Approach to Organizing | |
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| Empowerment, Participation, and Social Change | |
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| Questions for Reflection | |
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| Suggestions for Further Inquiry | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| The Self Aware Organizer | |
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| The Call of Organizing | |
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| Connecting the Personal and Political | |
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| The Perils of Organizing | |
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| Anger | |
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| Fear | |
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| Despair | |
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| Failure | |
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| Burnout | |
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| Co-Optation | |
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| An Organizer's Path to Meaning and Success | |
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| Persistence | |
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| Clarity | |
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| Solidarity/Community | |
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| Joy | |
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| The Practice of Inquiry | |
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| Questions for Reflection | |
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| Suggestions for Further Inquiry | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Theories and Ideas for the Progressive Organizer | |
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| The Marxist Tradition | |
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| Critical Theory | |
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| Analysis of the Marxist Tradition | |
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| Feminist Perspectives | |
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| Queer Theory | |
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| Analysis of Feminist Perspectives | |
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| Civil Society Perspectives | |
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| Participatory Democracy | |
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| Analysis of Civil Society Perspectives | |
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| Anarchist Thought | |
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| Analysis of Anarchist Thought | |
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| Postmodern Perspectives | |
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| Social Constructionism | |
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| Analysis of Postmodern Perspectives | |
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| Developing a Critical Approach | |
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| Questions for Reflection | |
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| Suggestions for Further Inquiry | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Learning From Social Movements | |
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| Understanding Social Movements | |
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| Dimensions of Social Movements | |
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| Emergence and Effectiveness of Social Movements | |
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| A Brief History of Social Movements | |
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| Civil Rights Movement | |
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| Women's Movements | |
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| Labor Movements | |
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| LGBTQ Movements | |
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| Disability Rights Movements | |
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| Reflections on Social Movements | |
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| Questions for Reflection | |
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| Suggestions for Further Inquiry | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Critical Organizing Frameworks | |
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| Approaches to Community Organizing | |
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| Rothman's Modes | |
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| Mondros and Wilson's Models | |
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| Fisher's Neighborhood Organizing Approaches | |
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| Progressive Organizing Frameworks: A Spectrum | |
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| Alinsky and the Utilitarian Tradition | |
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| The Alinsky Legacy | |
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| Transformative Approaches | |
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| Myles Horton and the Highlander Center | |
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| The Educational Methods of Paulo Freire | |
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| Feminist Contributions | |
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| Processes of Reconciliation | |
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| Reflections on Progressive Organizing Frameworks | |
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| Questions for Reflection | |
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| Suggestions for Further Inquiry | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Tools for Community Organizing | |
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| Organizing People: Constituencies and Coalitions | |
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| Key Elements of Organizing Constituencies and Coalitions | |
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| Empowerment | |
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| Accountability | |
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| Relationship | |
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| Social Change | |
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| Organizing Individual Constituents | |
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| The Relational Meeting | |
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| Organizing as Leadership Development | |
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| Organizing in Social Service Organizations | |
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| Coalition Building | |
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| Overcoming Barriers to Coalition Work | |
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| Substantive and Philosophical Differences | |
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| Organizational and Tactical Differences | |
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| Cultural Differences | |
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| Case Study: The Right to Return Campaign | |
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| History and Background | |
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| Public Housing in New Orleans | |
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| Post-Katrina New Orleans | |
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| Coalition Building | |
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| Strength in Numbers | |
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| Martin Luther King Day 2006 | |
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| Tactical Diversity | |
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| C3/Hands Off Iberville | |
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| Survivors' Village | |
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| Legal System Tactics | |
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| Policy Advocacy | |
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| Questions for Reflection | |
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| Suggestions for Further Inquiry | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Toward Empowering Organizations | |
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| Organizing in the Nonprofit World | |
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| Organizational Capacity Building | |
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| Fund-Raising | |
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| Leadership and Decision Making | |
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| Consensus Decision Making | |
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| Evaluating Community Organizing | |
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| Participatory Action Research | |
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| Case Study: Spotlight on Youth Organizing | |
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| Riot Youth | |
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| Questions for Reflection | |
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| Suggestions for Further Inquiry | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Communication: Issue Framing, Media, and Technology | |
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| Social Constructionism, Language, and Framing | |
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| Issue Identification and Assessment | |
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| Community Development Assessment Techniques | |
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| Communicating Messages | |
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| Media Justice | |
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| Messaging and the Art of the March | |
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| Case Study: Our Knowledge, Our Power | |
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| OKOP's Actions and Campaigns | |
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| Challenges Faced by OKOP | |
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| Future Directions and Conclusions | |
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| Questions for Reflection | |
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| Suggestions for Further Inquiry | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Tactics for Change | |
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| Thinking About Tactical Diversity | |
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| Policy Advocacy | |
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| Legal and Regulatory Suits | |
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| Asset-Based Community Development | |
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| Direct Action | |
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| Negotiation, Consensus and Nonviolent Communication | |
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| Alternative Community Development | |
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| Cultural Development | |
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| Reflecting on Organizing Tactics | |
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| Case Study: Organizing With Older Adults | |
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| Questions for Reflection | |
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| Suggestions for Further Inquiry | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Enduring and Emergent Issues in Organizing | |
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| Toward Solidarity: Understanding Oppression and Working With Identity Politics | |
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| Thinking About Oppression and Liberation | |
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| Understanding the Divisions | |
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| A Path to Solidarity | |
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| Campus Organizing | |
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| Reproductive Justice | |
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| Lessons Learned | |
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| Questions for Reflection | |
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| Suggestions for Further Inquiry | |
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| Religious and Spiritual Aspects of Organizing | |
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| Faith-Based Organizing | |
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| Gandhian Nonviolent Approaches to Social Change | |
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| Deep Ecology and Environmental Activism | |
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| Jewish Theological Approaches | |
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| The Engaged Buddhist Movement | |
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| Catholic Social Justice Perspectives | |
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| Toward Interspiritual Solidarity | |
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| Questions for Reflection | |
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| Global Justice: Organization and Resistance | |
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| The Effects of Economic Globalization on Communities | |
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| Contemporary Global Justice Organizing | |
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| Land-Based and Localization Movements | |
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| Transnational Labor Organizing | |
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| Transnational Participatory Action Research in Post-Earthquake Haiti | |
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| Multilingual Capacity Building for Transnational Organizing | |
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| Reflecting on Global Justice Organizing | |
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| Progressive Organizing in a Globalizing World | |
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| Questions for Reflection | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |