Experienced community organizer and professor Patricia Spindel provides a practical guide for producing change through community action and social activism in the updated second edition of Changing Communities. Spindel explores who has power in society and how communities can mobilize to create positive change by building capacity, developing community structures, and taking direct action to shift power relations.Outlining a practical approach to asset mapping, creating community economic development strategies, and critiquing some current approaches to community development, the chapters...
Experienced community organizer and professor Patricia Spindel provides a practical guide for producing change through community action and social act...