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Community Projects as Social Activism
From Direct Action to Direct Services
- Benjamin Shepard - New York City College of Technology, California State University, Long Beach, USA
September 2014 | 256 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
Community Projects as Social Activism: From Direct Action to Direct Services by Benjamin Shepard is an engaging and accessible work that will get today's students excited about the very real prospect of achieving lasting, positive change within their communities. It outlines a distinct approach to community practice born out of the intersection among social movements, day-to-day organizing, and the lessons of five decades of community change practices. This invaluable resource is a must-have for anyone involved in community organization, community health, and community activism practice research and policy.
Foreword, by Steve Burghardt
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Part I: Theory, Contexts and Understandings
Chapter 1: On Community Practice
Chapter 2: Activism in a Changing World—Looking Back to Move Forward
Chapter 3: Learning from Community Projects
Part II: Practice and Power
Chapter 4: Introduction to Part II on Social Action and Power
Chapter 5: Identifying Issues
Chapter 6: Research as Action
Chapter 7: Mobilization and Spreading the Message
Chapter 8: Direct Action and "Getting the Goods"
Chapter 9: Legal Strategies
Chapter 10: From Joy to Justice: Mixing Fun and Community Building
Part III: Praxis: From Direct Action to Direct Services
Chapter 11: Social Movement to Social Services: From the Black Panthers to the Young Lords
Chapter 12: From Critique to Coexistence with Capital: The Woodlawn Organization and the Dilemmas of Community Development
Chapter 13: ACT UP to the World: Direct Action to Direct Services
Chapter 14: Affinity Group to Movement Organization: Housing Works
Chapter 15: Harm Reduction and Human Services: Experiments in Syringe Exchange
Chapter 16: The Perils of the Non-Profit Industrial Complex
Chapter 17: DIY Politics and World-Making: Mutual Aid, Anarchism, and Alternative Solutions
Chapter 18: Multi-Issue Organizing From the Women’s Movement to Struggles for Global Justice
Chapter 19: Community Building against Inequality: Zapatistas, Occupations and Transnational Advocacy
Postscript: Concluding Notes on Friendships, Social Networks and Social Change
References
Index
Was visually not stimulating for students and somewhat "boring".
Social Work Dept, Northwest Nazarene University
September 1, 2015
An interesting book offering a wealth of strategies, based on case studies in the US, transferrable across a borders and disciplines
Playwork Group, Leeds Beckett University
June 19, 2015
excellent for community social work practice
Social Work, Eastern Connecticut State Univ
May 17, 2015
the book did not meet the objectives of my course
Interdisciplinary Programs, Slippery Rock University
February 18, 2015
