Community Groups in Context

Local Activities and Actions

Buch | Hardcover

320 Seiten

2017
Policy Press (Verlag)
978-1-4473-2777-6 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

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

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

Erscheinungsdatum	05.03.2017
Reihe/Serie	Third Sector Research
Co-Autor	Rosie Anderson, Phil Ware, Teresa Piacentini, Lucy Mayblin, Robin Simpson
Zusatzinfo	1 Maps; 7 Tables, black and white
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4473-2777-2 / 1447327772
ISBN-13	978-1-4473-2777-6 / 9781447327776
Zustand	Neuware