How Civic Action Works (eBook)

Fighting for Housing in Los Angeles

Paul Lichterman (Autor)

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2020
360 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-20004-0 (ISBN)

Infos

The ways that social advocates organize to fight unaffordable housing and homelessness in Los Angeles, illuminated by a new conceptual framework for studying collective actionHow Civic Action Works renews the tradition of inquiry into collective, social problem solving. Paul Lichterman follows grassroots activists, nonprofit organization staff, and community service volunteers in three coalitions and twelve organizations in Los Angeles as they campaign for affordable housing, develop new housing, or address homelessness. Lichterman shows that to understand how social advocates build their campaigns, craft claims, and choose goals, we need to move beyond well-established thinking about what is strategic.Lichterman presents a pragmatist-inspired sociological framework that illuminates core tasks of social problem solving, both contentious and noncontentious, by grassroots and professional advocates alike. He reveals that advocates' distinct styles of collective action produce different understandings of what is strategic, and generate different dilemmas for advocates because each style accommodates varying social and institutional pressures. We see, too, how patterns of interaction create a cultural filter that welcomes some claims about housing problems while subordinating or delegitimating others. These cultural patterns help solve conceptual and practical puzzles, such as why coalitions fragment when members agree on many things, and what makes advocacy campaigns separate housing from homelessness or affordability from environmental sustainability. Lichterman concludes by turning this action-centered framework toward improving dialogue between social advocates and researchers.Using extensive ethnography enriched by archival evidence, How Civic Action Works explains how advocates meet the relational and rhetorical challenges of collective action.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.12.2020
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology
• Zusatzinfo: 3 tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Baurecht (privat)
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: activism • activist groups • Actor Model • Advocacy • Advocacy group • Affordable Housing • African Americans • Altruism • Ann Mische • Ann Swidler • Apartment • behalf • Bowling alone • charitable volunteer projects • charitable work • citizen planning • civic action • civic action approach • civic engagement • Collaboration • Collective Action • Commercialization • Communitarian • community development • Community of inquiry • Community of Interest • Community Organizing • Competition • Construction • Criticism • Deliberation • Democracy in the Making • development plan • Dewey • downtown community • downtown residents • Employment • Empowerment • Entrepreneurial • Entrepreneurship • Environmental Degradation • equitable urban development • Facilitator • field research • focus group • Foie Gras • Follow-up • Francesca Polletta • Funding • Fundraising • Gentrification • Governance • Grassroots • grassroots, community based • Grassroots politics • Habits of the Heart • Homelessness • homeless shelter • housing advocacy • housing association • housing development • Housing Issues • housing problems • housing works • Ideology • Illustration • income • Income bracket • Insider • Kathleen Blee • laborer • Landlord • LAPO • Legislation • Legislator • Market rate • Mark Steinberg • Mission Statement • Mixed-income housing • National Science Foundation • network data • Networks • Newsletter • New Urbanism • Nonprofit Organization • Nonprofit organizations • nonprofit organizing • nonprofit work • organization • organizational life • Organizing • Organizing (management) • Our Community • Outreach • participant • participant observation • Partisan Publics • Police • Political culture • Political participation • Politics • Poverty • Power broker (politics) • Print Culture • pro bono • Protest • Public comment • Public housing • Public Interest • quality of life • Racism • Real Estate Development • Redevelopment • Reputation • residence • residential properties • rhetoric • Robert Bellah • Robert Putnam • salary • skepticism • Social advocacy • social issue • Social Movement • social movement efforts • Social Movements • Social reality • Social Science • Social Theory • Sociology • Supporter • Tax • The Civil Sphere • The Other Hand • The Public Interest • Town Hall Meeting • Trade-off • Trade Union • Training workshop • unaffordable housing • urban planning • urban politics • volunteer efforts • Volunteering • volunteerism • Volunteer projects • Voting • Writing
• ISBN-10: 0-691-20004-1 / 0691200041
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-20004-0 / 9780691200040