McCabe / Phillimore Community Groups in Context

Local Activities and Actions
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-4473-2781-3
Verlag: Policy Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 320 Seiten

Reihe: Third Sector Research

In the past decade community groups have been portrayed as the solution to many social problems. Yet the role of ‘below the regulatory radar’ community action has received little research attention and thus is poorly understood in terms of both policy and practice.

Focusing on self-organised community activity, this book offers the first collection of papers developing theoretical and empirically grounded knowledge of the informal, unregistered, yet largest, part of the voluntary sector. The collection includes work from leading academics, activists, policy makers and practitioners offering a new and coherent understanding of community action ‘below the radar’.

The book is part of the Third Sector Research Series which is informed by research undertaken at the Third Sector Research Centre, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and Barrow Cadbury Trust.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McCabe, Angus

Phillimore, Jenny

Weitere Mitwirkende

Anderson, Rosie

Ware, Phil

Piacentini, Teresa

Mayblin, Lucy

Simpson, Robin

Milling, Jane

Ramsden, Hilary

Cemlyn, Sarah

Ryder, Andrew

Crowley, Niall

Soteri-Proctor, Andri

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Staatsbürgerkunde, Staatsbürgerschaft, Zivilgesellschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Soziale Dienste, Soziale Organisationen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Why get below the radar? The importance of understanding community groups and activities ~ Angus McCabe and Jenny Phillimore

Part One: Scoping and mapping community actions and activities

Below the radar? Community groups and activities in context ~ Angus McCabe and Jenny Phillimore

Getting below the radar: micro-mapping ‘hidden’ community activity ~ Andri Soteri-Proctor

Part Two: Community groups and activities in context

Are we different? Claims for distinctiveness in voluntary and community action ~ Angus McCabe and Jenny Phillimore

Community as policy: reflections on community engagement, empowerment and social action in a changing policy context ~ Angus McCabe

Lost to austerity, lost in austerity: rethinking the community sector in Ireland ~ Niall Crowley

All change? Surviving below the radar: community groups and activities in hard times ~ Angus McCabe and Jenny Phillimore

Part Three: Under-explored radars

The UK Gypsy, Traveller and Roma third sector: a Gypsy industry or route to empowerment? ~ Andrew Ryder and Sarah Cemlyn

Understanding grassroots arts groups and practices in communities ~ Hilary Ramsden, Jane Milling and Robin Simpson

Is there a black and minority ethnic third sector in the UK? ~ Lucy Mayblin

‘More than a refugee community organisation’: a study of African migrant associations in Glasgow ~ Teresa Piacentini

Part Four: Thinking about voice, learning and emotion below the radar

‘Almost a whisper’: black and minority ethnic community groups’ voice and influence ~ Phil Ware

Learning to sustain social action ~ Jenny Phillimore and Angus McCabe

Authentic and legitimate? The emotional role of ‘grassroots’ community activists in policymaking ~ Rosie Anderson

Conclusion: thinking back and looking forward ~ Angus McCabe and Jenny Phillimore

Über Autor(innen)

Ryder, Andrew
Andrew Ryder FRSA is Director of the Institute for Political and International Studies at Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary.

McCabe, Angus
Angus McCabe is a Senior Research Fellow at the Third Sector Research Centre at the University of Birmingham. He has a background in community development practice in urban and rural settings in the UK

Mayblin, Lucy
Lucy Mayblin is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Sheffield.

Phillimore, Jenny
Jenny Phillimore is Professor of Migration and Superdiversity at the University of Birmingham. Jenny is a fellow of the RSA and of the Academy of the Social Sciences with research interests in superdiversity and refugee integration.

Professor Jenny Phillimore is Director of the Institute for Research into Superdiversity. During her five years at the Third Sector Research Centre her interests included small scale community action, refugee and migrant communities and community engagement

Angus McCabe is a Senior Research Fellow at the Third Sector Research Centre at the University of Birmingham. He has a background in community development practice in urban and rural settings in the UK