Urban Action Networks: Hiv/AIDS and Community Organizing in New York City

ISBN-13: 9780742540835 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 240 str.

Howard Lune

Opis

Urban Action Networks is a study of how communities organize in response to threats to their lives and well being. As HIV/AIDS wreaked havoc on the worlds of some of the most marginal and disenfranchised people in New York, they came together to create a shared response, forming a new organizational field within which their various efforts were coordinated. How the communities of the most affected people organized, reorganized, and redefined the social and political context of HIV/AIDS offers an encouraging glimpse into the way in which marginal communities can convert shared needs into collective action.