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1 online resource (320 pages) |
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Third sector research series |
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Third sector research series.
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| Contents |
Intro -- COMMUNITY GROUPS IN CONTEXT -- Contents -- List of tables and figures -- Tables -- Figures -- Foreword -- Series editor's foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction -- Introduction. Why get below the radar? The importance of understanding community groups and activities -- Part one. Scoping and mapping community actions and activities -- 1. Below the radar? Community groups and activities in context -- Background -- Defining 'below the radar' -- The scale of below the radar activity -- The nature of below the radar activity -- A below the radar sector? -- Common challenges -- Conclusion: some contested issues -- Key learning -- 2. Getting below the radar: micro-mapping 'hidden' community activity -- Introduction -- Mapping the below-radar third sector -- Digging down below the radar -- What does it look like beneath the 'official' radar? -- The niche, the specific, and the very local? -- Common themes below the radar -- Final reflections on street-level micro-mapping -- Key learning -- Part Two. Community groups and activities in context -- 3. Are we different? Claims for distinctiveness in voluntary and community action -- Background -- Coming into existence -- Keeping it going? -- Are community groups distinctive? -- The limitations of distinctiveness -- A hardening of attitudes? -- Conclusion -- Key learning -- 4. Community as policy: reflections on community engagement, empowerment and social action in a changing policy context -- Background -- From community engagement to social action? -- From Big Society, through localism, to policy neglect -- Taking on 'the big issues': power and community groups in austere times -- Conclusion -- Key learning -- 5. Lost to austerity, lost in austerity: rethinking the community sector in Ireland -- Introduction -- Analysis and debate |
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The community sector prior to austerity -- The community sector in austerity -- Challenges to the community sector -- Conclusion -- Key learning -- 6. All change? Surviving below the radar: community groups and activities in hard times -- Introduction -- Background: austerity in policy context -- Responses to austerity 2010-16: policy rich and resource poor? -- Surviving below the radar? -- Time and resources -- Places and spaces for community activity -- Scaling up to survive? -- Shifting attitudes and ideologies -- Conclusion: all change below the radar? -- Key learning -- Part Three. Under-explored radars -- 7. The UK Gypsy, Traveller and Roma third sector: a Gypsy industry or route to empowerment? -- Introduction -- The roots of the Gypsy, Traveller and Roma third sector -- Assimilation, emancipation or empowerment -- UK GTR activism: ladders or scaffolds -- The GTR third sector under the coalition and Conservative governments -- A pedagogy of hope -- Key learning -- 8. Understanding grassroots arts groups and practices in communities -- The amateur and grassroots arts sector -- Framing informal arts practices -- Social impacts and benefits: a dominant discourse -- Understanding informal arts groups in communities -- Conclusion -- Key learning -- 9. Is there a black and minority ethnic third sector in the UK? -- Introduction -- The BME third sector -- Characteristics of the BME third sector -- Disaggregating the BME third sector -- Faith-based organisations -- Conclusion -- Key learning -- 10. 'More than a refugee community organisation': a study of African migrant associations in Glasgow -- Introduction -- Theoretical discussion -- Understanding community groups and activities -- Conclusion -- Key learning -- Part Four. Thinking about voice, learning and emotion below the radar |
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11. 'Almost a whisper': black and minority ethnic community groups' voice and influence -- Background: why understanding BME voice is important -- Research methods -- Strategies for voice and influence -- Challenges to developing and sustaining voice and influence -- Losing voice: discussion -- Voice as a whisper: conclusion -- Key learning -- 12. Learning to sustain social action -- Context: from social capital to capacity building -- Looking at learning in community action: research aims and methods -- The learning journey -- Passion -- plus knowledge: how things work -- Learning to support community learning: final reflections -- Final reflections: spaces for learning -- Key learning -- 13. Authentic and legitimate? The emotional role of 'grassroots' community activists in policymaking -- Researching and understanding emotion in policymaking -- Splitting: emotion and reason -- Emotion work -- Understanding activists' emotional practice -- Activists' feeling roles and rules -- Key learning -- 14. Conclusion: thinking back and looking forward -- Index |
| Summary |
Collates knowledge and examines the role and nature of community groups and activities operating outside of the formal voluntary sector in the UK to develop a coherent understanding about these so-called ""below the radar"" organisations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Community organization.
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community organizations.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Services.
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Community organization
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Soziale Bewegung
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Stadt
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
McCabe, Angus, editor
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Phillimore, Jenny, editor
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| ISBN |
9781447327813 |
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1447327810 |
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1447327799 |
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9781447327790 |
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9781447327806 |
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1447327802 |
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