The State and Community Action, livre ebook

In this controversial book, Terry Robson shatters the myth that the current community development movement has the potential to change the nature of society. Robson criticises community development organisations for losing touch with the very communities they are seeking to serve. Against a background of continuing civil and political conflict, Robson examines case studies in Ireland, Britain, Romania and the United States.
Introduction
Part I: Theoretical context
1. The State and Hegemony
2. Coercion, Community and Civil Society
3. Community as Counter-Hegemony
4. The Co-option of Radicalism
5. Community, Catholicism and Communitarianism
Part II: The Case Studies
6. Northern Ireland: The evolution of a counter-hegemony
7. The United States: Poverty and the Catholic Worker Movement
8. Romania: Charity as Social Control
Conclusion
Notes
Index