Handbook of Community Movements and Local Organizations in the 21st Century

Introductory Chapter; Ram Cnaan, Carl Milofsky and Albert Hunter.- Part I. History and Conceptualizations of Community.- Chapter 1. Conceptualizing Community; Albert Hunter.- Chapter 2. Community at Work: Sensing Community Through Needs Fulfillment and Responsibility; Neil Boyd and Branda Nowell.- Chapter 3. Community Climate: Adapting Climate Theory to the Study of Communities; Gil Luria, Amnon Boehm and Ram A. Cnaan.- Chapter 4. Reading Social Symbol Systems; Ben Marsh and Janet Jones.- Chapter 5. Community Elites or Community Elitism?: The Democratic Challenge of Empowering Community; Stephen Danley.- Chapter 6. Disengagement and Alienation in Modern American Institutions; Jennifer Silva.- Part II. Theoretical Concepts in community Organizations.- Chapter 7. Systemic Theories of Associations: Macro and Meso Approaches; Carl Milofsky.- Chapter 8. PCreating Participatory Democratic Decision-Making in Local Organizations; Joyce Rothschild.- Chapter 9. Client Authority in Nonprofit Human Service Organizations; Lehn M. Benjamin.- Chapter 10. Community-Labor Coalitions; Scott Harding and Louise Simmons.- Chapter 11. A Field Guide to Organizations "In the Wild: " Moving Beyond Restrictive Organization Theory for Associations; Jordi Comas.- Chapter 12. Legitimacy as the Basis for Organizational Development; Davide Gnes and Floris Vermeulen.- Chapter 13. About the Localized Social Movement; Randy Stoecker.- Chapter 14. Volunteers in Community Organizations; Christopher J. Einolf.- Chapter 15. Community Practice and Community Organization: A Conceptual Understanding; Haya Itzhaky and Edna Bustin.- Chapter 16. Community Empowerment; Stephen W. Stoeffler.- Chapter 17. Contested Community: A Selected and Critical History of Community Organizing; Robert Fischer, James DeFilippis and Eric Shragge.- Chapter 18. Alinsky Style Organizing; Margaret A. Post.- Chapter 19. Self Help Organized Through Mutual Assistance in Helping Communities; Steven P. Segal.- Chapter 20. Promoting Spatial Inclusion: How Everyday Places Signal Who is Welcome; Amy Hillier.- Chapter 21. Intentional Sub-Communities and Identity Continuity among Baby Boomers: Grateful Dead Fans; Rebecca G. Adams and Justin T. Harmon.- Chapter 22. Hometown Associations and Transnational Community Development; Deepak Lamba-Nieves.- Chapter 23. The Community Resilience Approach to Disaster Recovery: Strategies Communities Can Use; Jennifer Shea.- Chapter 24. Religious Congregations as Community Hubs and Sources of Social Bonding; Ram A. Cnaan and H. Daniel Heist.- Chapter 25. Community-Based Action for Food Justice; Michele A. Kelley and Rachael D. Dombrowski.- Chapter 26. Improving health in or of the community?; Brandn Green and Kristal Jones.- Chapter 27. Schools as Community Institutions; Carl Milofsky.- Chapter 28. The Case for Functional Pedagogical Skills in School Psychology Training: An Empirical Investigation; Amy F. Golightly.- Chapter 29. Community Approaches for Addressing Crime and Violence: Prevention, Intervention, and Restoration; Tracy M. Soska and Mary L. Ohmer.- Chaper 30. Community Needs Assessments; Heather S. Feldhaus and Paul Deppen III.- Chapter 31. Social Issues as a Focus of Community Studies; Katherine Anne MacTavish.- Chapter 32. Qualitative Methods: Tools for Understanding and Engaging Communities; Rosemary Frasso, Shimrit Keddem and J.M. Golinkoff.