Collective Action and Urban Poverty Alleviation
Community Organizations and the Struggle for Shelter in Manila
Seiten
2007
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-7546-4786-7 (ISBN)
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-7546-4786-7 (ISBN)
Questions whether communities have the ability to organize, engage government and undertake major redevelopment. This book also examines when and how mobilization of communities occurs and if such organizations possess any influence in the intensely political decision-making arena of urban land development.
An estimated 600 million people now live in informal or 'squatter' settlements in the rapidly growing cities of the developing world. With such settlements often lacking basic necessities, there is an urgent need to address this urban crisis. Recently, innovative approaches have focused on the role of community-based organizations (CBOs) in setting up self-help and participatory programmes. This incisive book questions whether communities have the ability to organize, engage government and undertake major redevelopment. It also examines when and how mobilization of communities occurs and if such organizations possess any influence in the intensely political decision-making arena of urban land development. It is illustrated by a detailed analysis of the experience of CBOs in Manila, as the Philippine government has undertaken what is perhaps the most radical experiment in decentralized, participatory approaches to urban governance in the world. The book emphasizes the external conditions that influence patterns of collective action within communities and addresses issues such as the local political economy and the communities' place within the global economy.
An estimated 600 million people now live in informal or 'squatter' settlements in the rapidly growing cities of the developing world. With such settlements often lacking basic necessities, there is an urgent need to address this urban crisis. Recently, innovative approaches have focused on the role of community-based organizations (CBOs) in setting up self-help and participatory programmes. This incisive book questions whether communities have the ability to organize, engage government and undertake major redevelopment. It also examines when and how mobilization of communities occurs and if such organizations possess any influence in the intensely political decision-making arena of urban land development. It is illustrated by a detailed analysis of the experience of CBOs in Manila, as the Philippine government has undertaken what is perhaps the most radical experiment in decentralized, participatory approaches to urban governance in the world. The book emphasizes the external conditions that influence patterns of collective action within communities and addresses issues such as the local political economy and the communities' place within the global economy.
Dr Gavin Shatkin is Assistant Professor at the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, USA.
Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Obstacles to Empowerment: Local Politics and Community Organizing in Metro Manila; Chapter 3 Community-Based Organizations and the State: Five Case Studies; Chapter 4 Building Communities: Social Capital and Part Icipation in CBOS; Chapter 5 Political Identities and Collective Action; Chapter 6 A Quantitive Assessment of Community Organizing in Metro Manila; Chapter 7 A Comparative Perspective on Collective Action and Community Change;
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 28.2.2007 |
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Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Gewicht | 408 g |
Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 0-7546-4786-2 / 0754647862 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-7546-4786-7 / 9780754647867 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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