Community Intervention (eBook)

Jan Marie Fritz, Ph.D., a Certified Clinical Sociologist (CCS), is Professor of Health Policy and Planning in the School of Planning at the University of Cincinnati. She also is affiliated with the Department of Women's Studies and the Department of Sociology. She is the author or editor of more than 90 publications including six editions of The Clinical Sociology Resource Book and publications on mediation in French and Italian. She is a vice president of the International Sociological Association (an approximately 4000 member organization based in Spain) and a former president of national and international practice organizations. She has been a mediator for 25 years for small claims, equal employment opportunity, special education and workplace disputes. She also has facilitated organizational and community meetings concerned with dispute analysis and resolution. She teaches mediation and environmental dispute resolution at the University of Cincinnati, has trained mediators in Italy and the United States, is a former member of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's, National Environmental Justice Advisory Council's committee on research and health and has given presentations about mediation in many countries including Australia, Greece, Venezuela, South Africa and Japan.

Foreword; Katia Araujo, Huairou Commission.- Chapter 1. Introduction; Jan Marie Fritz and Jacques Rheaume - Profile. Wangari Maathai and the Green Belt Movement; Elena Bass.- Part I. The Basics of Community Practice.- Chapter 2. Essentials of Community Intervention; Jan Marie Fritz - Profile: Saul Alinsky and Community Organizing; John Yung.- Chapter 3. Research for the Community; Jacques Rheaume - Profile: Orlando Fals-Borda and Participatory Action Research; Jeff Kelley.- Chapter 4. The Researcher’s Mark: What Researchers bring to Communities and What May or May Not be Left Behind When Their Work is Done by Jenifer Cartland and Holly S. Ruch-Ross - Profile: Jane Addams and Hull-House; Jan Marie Fritz.- Part II. Selected Applications.- Chapter 5. Community Development and Empowerment: A Clinical Sociology Perspective; Jacques Rheaume.- Chapter 6. The Healthy Cities/Communities Movement: The Global Diffusion of Local Initiatives; Harry Perlstadt.- Chapter 7. Cultural Encounters: A Research-Intervention Approach for Working with Immigrants in the Community by Catherine Montgomery; Spyridoula Xenocostas and Vania Jimenez.- Chapter 8. Coeducation in the Popular Districts of Marseille; Pierre Roche.- Chapter 9. Economic Intervention in Communities: The Québec Case; Jean-Marc Fontan and Lucie Dumais.- Chapter 10. Climate Change and Adaptation in Metro Manila: Intersecting Structures of Power in Community Interventions; Emma Porio.- Chapter 11. Human Rights Cities: The Transformation of Communities or Simply Treading Water?; Judith Blau.- Chapter 12. Involving Residents in the Design of Urban Renewal Projects based upon a Generative Analysis of Social Processes; Michel Bonetti and Jean-Didier Laforgue.- Chapter 13. Riding Off into the Sunset? Establishing an Inclusive Post-Apartheid South African Community; Tina Uys.