Find a copy in the library
Finding libraries that hold this item...
Details
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Collaborations for social justice. Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2007 (OCoLC)654528475 |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Andrew L Barlow |
| ISBN: | 0742559319 9780742559318 0742559327 9780742559325 |
| OCLC Number: | 86117560 |
| Description: | ix, 137 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Transformative collaborations : professionals and minority community power / Andrew L. Barlow -- Creating a new world : transformative lawyering for social change / Anamaria Loya -- Organizing education : academic research and community organizing for social reform / Michelle Renée ... [et al.] -- LULUs of the field : research and activism for environmental justice / Manuel Pastor, Rachel Morello-Frosch, and James L. Sadd -- The production of knowledge and community empowerment : organizing and research on youth violence / Howard Pinderhughes -- Private troubles and public issues / Michael Burawoy. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Andrew L. Barlow. |
| More information: |
Reviews
Publisher Synopsis
Academics who want their work to be useful in public policy debates would do well to use the case studies in this book as a reference manual. Barlow s contributors provide real life examples of the way social science research can frame issues and validate community demands for change without giving up the methodological rigor, creativity, and objectivity scientific inquiry requires. The book provides refreshingly clear-eyed accounts of the tensions and rewards of working with community-based groups, while consistently reminding us of the power dynamics that underlay the production of knowledge and its use in political debates. Collaborations for Social Justice should be required reading for introductory and graduate courses in the social sciences, schools of law, education, and environmental studies, and for new grantmakers. It is a little gem of a book, full of nuggets of insight and wisdom about social change work in contemporary America.--Katherine McFate Read more...
Tags
Similar Items
Related Subjects:(3)
- Community power -- United States.
- Social advocacy -- United States.
- Professional employees -- Political activity -- United States.
User lists with this item (1)
- ????????????2(137 items)
by 95451028
