Community Groups in Context (eBook, ePUB)

Local Activities and Actions
Redaktion: McCabe, Angus; Phillimore, Jenny

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In the past decade community groups have been portrayed as the solution to many social problems. Yet the role of 'below the regulatory radar' community action has received little research attention and thus is poorly understood in terms of both policy and practice. Focusing on self-organised community activity, this book offers the first collection of papers developing theoretical and empirically grounded knowledge of the informal, unregistered, yet largest, part of the voluntary sector. The collection includes work from leading academics, activists, policy makers and practitioners offering a new and coherent understanding of community action 'below the radar'. The book is part of the Third Sector Research Series which is informed by research undertaken at the Third Sector Research Centre, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and Barrow Cadbury Trust.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bristol University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781447327813
• Artikelnr.: 48054667

Autorenporträt

Professor Jenny Phillimore is Director of the Institute for Research into Superdiversity. During her five years at the Third Sector Research Centre her interests included small scale community action, refugee and migrant communities and community engagement Angus McCabe is a Senior Research Fellow at the Third Sector Research Centre at the University of Birmingham. He has a background in community development practice in urban and rural settings in the UK

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Why get below the radar? The importance of understanding
community groups and activities ~ Angus McCabe and Jenny Phillimore Part
One: Scoping and mapping community actions and activities Below the radar?
Community groups and activities in context ~ Angus McCabe and Jenny
Phillimore Getting below the radar: micro-mapping 'hidden' community
activity ~ Andri Soteri-Proctor Part Two: Community groups and activities
in context Are we different? Claims for distinctiveness in voluntary and
community action ~ Angus McCabe and Jenny Phillimore Community as policy:
reflections on community engagement, empowerment and social action in a
changing policy context ~ Angus McCabe Lost to austerity, lost in
austerity: rethinking the community sector in Ireland ~ Niall Crowley All
change? Surviving below the radar: community groups and activities in hard
times ~ Angus McCabe and Jenny Phillimore Part Three: Under-explored radars
The UK Gypsy, Traveller and Roma third sector: a Gypsy industry or route to
empowerment? ~ Andrew Ryder and Sarah Cemlyn Understanding grassroots arts
groups and practices in communities ~ Hilary Ramsden, Jane Milling and
Robin Simpson Is there a black and minority ethnic third sector in the UK?
~ Lucy Mayblin 'More than a refugee community organisation': a study of
African migrant associations in Glasgow ~ Teresa Piacentini Part Four:
Thinking about voice, learning and emotion below the radar 'Almost a
whisper': black and minority ethnic community groups' voice and influence ~
Phil Ware Learning to sustain social action ~ Jenny Phillimore and Angus
McCabe Authentic and legitimate? The emotional role of 'grassroots'
community activists in policymaking ~ Rosie Anderson Conclusion: thinking
back and looking forward ~ Angus McCabe and Jenny Phillimore