Collective Action and Urban Poverty Alleviation: Community Organizations and the Struggle for Shelter in Manila

ISBN-13: 9781138264557 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 184 str.

Gavin Shatkin

Opis

There is an urgent need to address the problems experienced by rapidly growing cities in the developing world. Recently, innovative approaches have focused on community-based organizations (CBOs) in setting up self-help and participatory programmes. Using the experience of CBOs in Manila, this book emphasizes the external conditions that influence patterns of collective action within communities and addresses issues such as the local political economy and the communities' place within the global economy.

Recenzje

'How effective are neighborhood participation and citizen organizing as tools of development? The perfect test may be in Manila, which exploded with organizations after the collapse of the Marcos dictatorship in 1986. Anyone wondering about limits to local democracy - in poor neighborhoods anywhere - should read this thorough study.' William W. Goldsmith, Director, Cornell University, USA

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Obstacles to Empowerment: Local Politics and Community Organizing in Metro Manila; Chapter 3 Community-Based Organizations and the State: Five Case Studies; Chapter 4 Building Communities: Social Capital and Part Icipation in CBOS; Chapter 5 Political Identities and Collective Action; Chapter 6 A Quantitive Assessment of Community Organizing in Metro Manila; Chapter 7 A Comparative Perspective on Collective Action and Community Change;

O autorze

Dr Gavin Shatkin is Assistant Professor at the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, USA.