Community Development
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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NEW! Building CommunityTwelve Principles for a Healthy Future |
Strong local communities are the foundation of a healthy, participatory, and resilient society. Rather than looking to national governments, corporations, or new technologies to solve … | James S. Gruber | 354 | 2020 | View |
Common ThreadsWeaving Community through Collaborative Eco-Art |
Common Threads is a unique guide to engaging community members in communal handwork for the greater good. Author Sharon Kallis provides a wealth of ideas for: * Working with unwanted natural … | Sharon Kallis | 283 | 2014 | View |
Conflict Is Not AbuseOverstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair |
From intimate relationships to global politics, Sarah Schulman observes a continuum: that inflated accusations of harm are used to avoid accountability. Illuminating the difference between … | Sarah Schulman | 304 | 2016 | View |
Reclaiming the Commons for the Common GoodA Memoir & Manifesto |
Commoning was a way of life for most of our ancestors. In Reclaiming the Commons for the Common Good, author Heather Menzies journeys to her roots in the Scottish Highlands, where her family … | Heather Menzies | 240 | 2014 | View |
NEW! Resisting EvictionDomicide and the Financialization of Rental Housing |
Resisting Eviction centres tenant organizing in its investigation of gentrification, eviction and the financialization of rental housing. Andrew Crosby argues that racial discrimination, property … | Andrew Crosby | 188 | 2023 | View |
Think Like a CommonerA Short Introduction to the Life of the Commons |
The biggest "tragedy of the commons" is the misconception that commons are failures – relics from another era rendered unnecessary by the Market and State. Think Like a Commoner … | David Bollier | 211 | 2014 | View |
Toward Sustainable CommunitiesSolutions for Citizens and Their Governments - Fourth Edition |
The need to make our communities sustainable is more urgent than ever before. Toward Sustainable Communities remains the single most useful resource for creating vibrant, healthy, equitable, … | Marc Roseland | 257 | 2012 | View |
From A Reparative ManifestoFrom: Conflict Is Not Abuse |
A brief introduction about events in recent history and nature of Abuse. The author talks about Normative Conflict and Resistance, and how reasonable stances of difference can be misrepresented … | Sarah Schulman | 22 | 2016 | $0.44 Add |
From IntroductionFrom: Common Threads |
By recognizing that human culture is a part of the ecosystem — not separate — and by creatively reimagining what symbiotic relationships of local production and consumption might look … | Sharon Kallis | 6 | 2014 | $0.60 Add |
From IntroductionFrom: Learning to Leave |
- | Michael Corbett | 34 | 2007 | $3.40 Add |
From IntroductionFrom: Think Like a Commoner |
The point of this book is to gently dispel such prejudices and provide a short introduction to the commons. After encountering so much confusion about the commons over the years — and … | David Bollier | 8 | 2014 | $0.80 Add |
From Introduction |
Social entrepreneurs, innovative men and women who focus their creative energy and business-minded skillset and savvy toward social change. Finding new and empowering ways to tackle social … | Elisa Birnbaum | 4 | 2018 | $0.40 Add |
From NEW! IntroductionFrom: Building Community |
- | James S. Gruber | 9 | 2020 | $0.90 Add |
From Introduction |
This chapter examines the author’s search for their roots in Scotland and how that search helped her connect with the First Nations struggle in North America. | Heather Menzies | 7 | 2014 | $0.70 Add |
From NEW! Revitalization and Settler Colonial “Improvement”From: Resisting Eviction |
In the introductory chapter of this book, Andrew Cosby describes the investigatory purpose of this book and maps out the content covered in the following chapters. | Andrew Crosby | 13 | 2023 | $1.30 Add |
From At an Impasse |
This chapter covers the author’s struggle of feeling lost and directionless, trying to find meaning and focus in searching for answers. It also talks about her decision to search for her … | Heather Menzies | 4 | 2014 | $0.40 Add |