Edward L. Cleary
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813036083
- eISBN:
- 9780813038285
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813036083.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, History of Religion
Much has been made of the dramatic rise of Protestantism in Latin America. Many view this as a sign that Catholicism's primacy in the region is at last beginning to wane. Overlooked by journalists ...
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Much has been made of the dramatic rise of Protestantism in Latin America. Many view this as a sign that Catholicism's primacy in the region is at last beginning to wane. Overlooked by journalists and scholars has been the parallel growth of Charismatic, or Pentecostal, Catholicism in the region. This book offers the first comprehensive treatment of this movement, revealing its importance to the Catholic Church as well as the people of Latin America. Catholic Charismatics have grown worldwide to several hundred million, among whom Latin Americans number approximately 73 million participants. These individuals are helping the church become more extroverted by drawing many into evangelizing and mission work. The movement has rapidly acquired an indigenous Latin American character and is now returning to the United States through migration and is affecting Catholicism in the United States. The author of this book has witnessed firsthand the birth and maturing of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal in Latin America as both a social scientist and a Dominican missionary. Drawing upon important findings of Latin American scholars and researchers, this book explores and analyzes the origins of the most important Catholic movement in Latin America and its notable expansion to all countries of the region, bringing with it unusual vitality and notable controversy about its practices.Less
Much has been made of the dramatic rise of Protestantism in Latin America. Many view this as a sign that Catholicism's primacy in the region is at last beginning to wane. Overlooked by journalists and scholars has been the parallel growth of Charismatic, or Pentecostal, Catholicism in the region. This book offers the first comprehensive treatment of this movement, revealing its importance to the Catholic Church as well as the people of Latin America. Catholic Charismatics have grown worldwide to several hundred million, among whom Latin Americans number approximately 73 million participants. These individuals are helping the church become more extroverted by drawing many into evangelizing and mission work. The movement has rapidly acquired an indigenous Latin American character and is now returning to the United States through migration and is affecting Catholicism in the United States. The author of this book has witnessed firsthand the birth and maturing of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal in Latin America as both a social scientist and a Dominican missionary. Drawing upon important findings of Latin American scholars and researchers, this book explores and analyzes the origins of the most important Catholic movement in Latin America and its notable expansion to all countries of the region, bringing with it unusual vitality and notable controversy about its practices.
Edward Orozco Flores
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781479884148
- eISBN:
- 9781479854561
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479884148.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This book presents two cases of faith-based community organizing for and among the formerly incarcerated. It examines how the Community Renewal Society, a protestant-founded group, and LA Voice, an ...
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This book presents two cases of faith-based community organizing for and among the formerly incarcerated. It examines how the Community Renewal Society, a protestant-founded group, and LA Voice, an affiliate of the Catholic-Jesuit-founded PICO National Network, foster faith-based community organizing for the formerly incarcerated. It conceptualizes the expanding boundaries of democratic inclusion—in order to facilitate the social integration of the formerly incarcerated—as prophetic redemption. It draws from participant observation and semistructured interviews to examine how the Community Renewal Society offered support for the Fighting to Overcome Records and Create Equality (FORCE) project, while LA Voice offered support for the Homeboy Industries–affiliated Homeboys Local Organizing Committee (LOC), both as forms of prophetic redemption. Both FORCE and the Homeboys LOC were led by formerly incarcerated persons, and drew from their parent organizations’ respective religious traditions and community organizing strategies. At the same time, FORCE and Homeboys LOC members drew from displays learned in recovery to participate in community organizing. The result was that prophetic redemption led to an empowering form of social integration, “returning citizenship.”Less
This book presents two cases of faith-based community organizing for and among the formerly incarcerated. It examines how the Community Renewal Society, a protestant-founded group, and LA Voice, an affiliate of the Catholic-Jesuit-founded PICO National Network, foster faith-based community organizing for the formerly incarcerated. It conceptualizes the expanding boundaries of democratic inclusion—in order to facilitate the social integration of the formerly incarcerated—as prophetic redemption. It draws from participant observation and semistructured interviews to examine how the Community Renewal Society offered support for the Fighting to Overcome Records and Create Equality (FORCE) project, while LA Voice offered support for the Homeboy Industries–affiliated Homeboys Local Organizing Committee (LOC), both as forms of prophetic redemption. Both FORCE and the Homeboys LOC were led by formerly incarcerated persons, and drew from their parent organizations’ respective religious traditions and community organizing strategies. At the same time, FORCE and Homeboys LOC members drew from displays learned in recovery to participate in community organizing. The result was that prophetic redemption led to an empowering form of social integration, “returning citizenship.”
Joe William Trotter
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780813179919
- eISBN:
- 9780813179926
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813179919.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, African-American History
During the Great Migration, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, became a mecca for African Americans seeking better job opportunities, wages, and living conditions. The city's thriving economy and vibrant ...
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During the Great Migration, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, became a mecca for African Americans seeking better job opportunities, wages, and living conditions. The city's thriving economy and vibrant social and cultural scenes inspired dreams of prosperity and a new start, but this urban haven was not free of discrimination and despair. In the face of injustice, activists formed the Urban League of Pittsburgh (ULP) in 1918 to combat prejudice and support the city's growing African American population. In this broad-ranging history, Joe William Trotter Jr. uses this noteworthy branch of the National Urban League to provide new insights into an organization that has often faced criticism for its social programs' deep class and gender limitations. Surveying issues including housing, healthcare, and occupational mobility, Trotter underscores how the ULP -- often in concert with the Urban League's national headquarters -- bridged social divisions to improve the lives of black citizens of every class. He also sheds new light on the branch's nonviolent direct-action campaigns and places these powerful grassroots operations within the context of the modern Black Freedom Movement. The impact of the National Urban League is a hotly debated topic in African American social and political history. Trotter's study provides valuable new insights that demonstrate how the organization has relieved massive suffering and racial inequality in US cities for more than a century.Less
During the Great Migration, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, became a mecca for African Americans seeking better job opportunities, wages, and living conditions. The city's thriving economy and vibrant social and cultural scenes inspired dreams of prosperity and a new start, but this urban haven was not free of discrimination and despair. In the face of injustice, activists formed the Urban League of Pittsburgh (ULP) in 1918 to combat prejudice and support the city's growing African American population. In this broad-ranging history, Joe William Trotter Jr. uses this noteworthy branch of the National Urban League to provide new insights into an organization that has often faced criticism for its social programs' deep class and gender limitations. Surveying issues including housing, healthcare, and occupational mobility, Trotter underscores how the ULP -- often in concert with the Urban League's national headquarters -- bridged social divisions to improve the lives of black citizens of every class. He also sheds new light on the branch's nonviolent direct-action campaigns and places these powerful grassroots operations within the context of the modern Black Freedom Movement. The impact of the National Urban League is a hotly debated topic in African American social and political history. Trotter's study provides valuable new insights that demonstrate how the organization has relieved massive suffering and racial inequality in US cities for more than a century.
Thomas J. Csordas
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- May 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195393408
- eISBN:
- 9780199894390
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195393408.003.0017
- Subject:
- Religion, World Religions
The Catholic Charismatic Renewal movement, originating in the United States, centered in Rome, Italy, and spread as wide as India, Brazil, and Nigeria, invites reconsideration of center-periphery, ...
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The Catholic Charismatic Renewal movement, originating in the United States, centered in Rome, Italy, and spread as wide as India, Brazil, and Nigeria, invites reconsideration of center-periphery, local-global in the globalization of religion. Modern communication and travel technologies spread divine healing and deliverance practices. Contrary impulses toward universal culture and postmodern cultural fragmentation layer hybridity upon syncretism upon synthesis, as embodiment figures in reenchantment or resacralization of the world. In India, locally contextualized variations on pentecostal healing exhibit dislocations and juxtapositions of Hindu and Catholic elements, exerting influence from periphery to center of global culture. In Brazil, Renewalists exhibit virtuosity in manipulating electronic media to interact with Marian traditions, liberation theology, Kardecist spiritism, and Afro-Brazilian religions. In Nigeria, Renewal builds upon and transforms meanings of indigenous practices of traditional religions and Islam, emphasizing restitution as antidote to materialism (challenging generalizations about “Prosperity”), and spiritual warfare through deliverance from ancestral spirits.Less
The Catholic Charismatic Renewal movement, originating in the United States, centered in Rome, Italy, and spread as wide as India, Brazil, and Nigeria, invites reconsideration of center-periphery, local-global in the globalization of religion. Modern communication and travel technologies spread divine healing and deliverance practices. Contrary impulses toward universal culture and postmodern cultural fragmentation layer hybridity upon syncretism upon synthesis, as embodiment figures in reenchantment or resacralization of the world. In India, locally contextualized variations on pentecostal healing exhibit dislocations and juxtapositions of Hindu and Catholic elements, exerting influence from periphery to center of global culture. In Brazil, Renewalists exhibit virtuosity in manipulating electronic media to interact with Marian traditions, liberation theology, Kardecist spiritism, and Afro-Brazilian religions. In Nigeria, Renewal builds upon and transforms meanings of indigenous practices of traditional religions and Islam, emphasizing restitution as antidote to materialism (challenging generalizations about “Prosperity”), and spiritual warfare through deliverance from ancestral spirits.
Denis Saint-Martin
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199269068
- eISBN:
- 9780191699344
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199269068.003.0005
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Public Management, Organization Studies
France began to incorporate management-consulting knowledge a lot later than Britain and Canada did. The state adopted the 1989 policy on the Renewal of Civil Service that prioritized human resource ...
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France began to incorporate management-consulting knowledge a lot later than Britain and Canada did. The state adopted the 1989 policy on the Renewal of Civil Service that prioritized human resource management, responsabilisation or accountability, programme evaluation, and service delivery. The techniques and ideas used to attain these priorities were associated with new managerialism in terms of including decentralized budgetary techniques, programme evaluation, techniques for setting standards and improving public services quality, and the shift of the relationships between administrative units from hierarchy to contract. Managerialist ideas in France are generally less influential because of the underlying bureaucratic reform policy ideas that emphasize the public aspect of state administration.Less
France began to incorporate management-consulting knowledge a lot later than Britain and Canada did. The state adopted the 1989 policy on the Renewal of Civil Service that prioritized human resource management, responsabilisation or accountability, programme evaluation, and service delivery. The techniques and ideas used to attain these priorities were associated with new managerialism in terms of including decentralized budgetary techniques, programme evaluation, techniques for setting standards and improving public services quality, and the shift of the relationships between administrative units from hierarchy to contract. Managerialist ideas in France are generally less influential because of the underlying bureaucratic reform policy ideas that emphasize the public aspect of state administration.
Myka Tucker-Abramson
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780823282708
- eISBN:
- 9780823286195
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823282708.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, American, 20th Century Literature
Novel Shocks argues that the political and cultural origins of neoliberalism lie in the battles over suburban and urban space in the 1950s and early 1960s. At the end of World War II, Harry Truman’s ...
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Novel Shocks argues that the political and cultural origins of neoliberalism lie in the battles over suburban and urban space in the 1950s and early 1960s. At the end of World War II, Harry Truman’s administration launched a national program of urban renewal that sought to create a new and distinctly American modernity, which would underpin US global hegemony. The program’s effects in Manhattan were particularly notable: throughout the 1950s and 1960s, New York bulldozed vast areas of land deemed “slums” or “blighted” to make way for freeways, public and private housing projects, medical centers, skyscrapers, and even the new United Nations headquarters. Taken together, these processes dramatically transformed New York’s metropolitan region, creating the segregated landscape of prosperous white suburbs and poor black cities, and with it new cultural forms and subjectivities. Throughout the 1950s and early 1960s, novelists such as Ralph Ellison, Patricia Highsmith, Ayn Rand, William Burroughs, Sylvia Plath, and Warren Miller all depicted and responded to these new urban spaces as forms of traumatic “shock” that required new aesthetic forms and political structures. These novels rejected older shock-based modernisms such as Surrealism and naturalism and, like the urbanization projects they depicted, forged a new kind of modernism, one that transformed shock from a traumatic and disruptive effect of urban modernity into a therapeutic force that helps strengthen and shape a more flexible, self-reliant, and resilient subject that would nourish the roots of neoliberalism.Less
Novel Shocks argues that the political and cultural origins of neoliberalism lie in the battles over suburban and urban space in the 1950s and early 1960s. At the end of World War II, Harry Truman’s administration launched a national program of urban renewal that sought to create a new and distinctly American modernity, which would underpin US global hegemony. The program’s effects in Manhattan were particularly notable: throughout the 1950s and 1960s, New York bulldozed vast areas of land deemed “slums” or “blighted” to make way for freeways, public and private housing projects, medical centers, skyscrapers, and even the new United Nations headquarters. Taken together, these processes dramatically transformed New York’s metropolitan region, creating the segregated landscape of prosperous white suburbs and poor black cities, and with it new cultural forms and subjectivities. Throughout the 1950s and early 1960s, novelists such as Ralph Ellison, Patricia Highsmith, Ayn Rand, William Burroughs, Sylvia Plath, and Warren Miller all depicted and responded to these new urban spaces as forms of traumatic “shock” that required new aesthetic forms and political structures. These novels rejected older shock-based modernisms such as Surrealism and naturalism and, like the urbanization projects they depicted, forged a new kind of modernism, one that transformed shock from a traumatic and disruptive effect of urban modernity into a therapeutic force that helps strengthen and shape a more flexible, self-reliant, and resilient subject that would nourish the roots of neoliberalism.
W. V. Harris
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780197263501
- eISBN:
- 9780191734212
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197263501.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, Historiography
Morris Keith Hopkins (1934–2004), a Fellow of the British Academy, played a key role in broadening the study of ancient history, particularly the history of Rome. Having learned historical sociology, ...
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Morris Keith Hopkins (1934–2004), a Fellow of the British Academy, played a key role in broadening the study of ancient history, particularly the history of Rome. Having learned historical sociology, Hopkins was able to conduct a series of structural analyses of Roman society such as had rarely if ever been attempted by previous historians. Hopkins became a real sociologist in Hong Kong, whose massive housing problem he studied. He also spent time in North America; he was a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania in 1974. Two major schemes occupied Hopkins’s scholarly energies during the 1970s: one was to put together the structural and sociological account of the Roman Empire which he had already been working on at intervals for several years — this was eventually to become both Conquerors and Slaves and Death and Renewal. Throughout his career as a scholar, Hopkins strove to solve fundamental and very difficult historical problems, and to do this in an exciting and immediate fashion.Less
Morris Keith Hopkins (1934–2004), a Fellow of the British Academy, played a key role in broadening the study of ancient history, particularly the history of Rome. Having learned historical sociology, Hopkins was able to conduct a series of structural analyses of Roman society such as had rarely if ever been attempted by previous historians. Hopkins became a real sociologist in Hong Kong, whose massive housing problem he studied. He also spent time in North America; he was a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania in 1974. Two major schemes occupied Hopkins’s scholarly energies during the 1970s: one was to put together the structural and sociological account of the Roman Empire which he had already been working on at intervals for several years — this was eventually to become both Conquerors and Slaves and Death and Renewal. Throughout his career as a scholar, Hopkins strove to solve fundamental and very difficult historical problems, and to do this in an exciting and immediate fashion.
Heather Connolly, Miguel Martínez Lucio, and Stefania Marino
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- January 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781501736575
- eISBN:
- 9781501736599
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501736575.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Political History
The book explores the question of social inclusion and trade union responses to immigration in the European context, comparing the Netherlands, Spain and the United Kingdom. Drawing on in-depth ...
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The book explores the question of social inclusion and trade union responses to immigration in the European context, comparing the Netherlands, Spain and the United Kingdom. Drawing on in-depth qualitative research the book focuses on how trade unions - particularly more established and institutionalised trade unions - respond to immigrant workers and what they perceive to be the important points of renewal and change that are required for a more integrated and supported immigrant community to emerge. The book also considers the role of European level trade union relations on the question of immigration and how trade unionists have attempted to deal with very different national configurations of trade union action. The book argues that we need to appreciate the complexity of trade union traditions, paths to renewal and competing trajectories of solidarity. While trade union organisations remain wedded to specific trajectories, trade union renewal remains an innovative if at times problematic set of choices and aspirations.Less
The book explores the question of social inclusion and trade union responses to immigration in the European context, comparing the Netherlands, Spain and the United Kingdom. Drawing on in-depth qualitative research the book focuses on how trade unions - particularly more established and institutionalised trade unions - respond to immigrant workers and what they perceive to be the important points of renewal and change that are required for a more integrated and supported immigrant community to emerge. The book also considers the role of European level trade union relations on the question of immigration and how trade unionists have attempted to deal with very different national configurations of trade union action. The book argues that we need to appreciate the complexity of trade union traditions, paths to renewal and competing trajectories of solidarity. While trade union organisations remain wedded to specific trajectories, trade union renewal remains an innovative if at times problematic set of choices and aspirations.
A. Martin Byers
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813029580
- eISBN:
- 9780813039183
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813029580.003.0011
- Subject:
- Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology
This chapter critiques Thomas Emerson's interpretation of the countryside settlement pattern, which he claims supports the view that Cahokia was the dominant centralized power. It also interprets ...
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This chapter critiques Thomas Emerson's interpretation of the countryside settlement pattern, which he claims supports the view that Cahokia was the dominant centralized power. It also interprets these same data in terms of the heterarchical polyistic locale-centric account. Subsequently, the chapter outlines the mortuary aspect of this archaeological record (primarily drawing on the work by George Milner, Melvin Fowler, Thomas Emerson, and supporting researchers), critiques the funerary paradigm interpretations that they give, and then presents the alternative Mourning/World Renewal Mortuary model. Then, it shows that the very same settlement data can be more coherently interpreted in terms of the World Renewal Cult Heterarchy model. It first introduces the sequential settlement articulation mode. In addition, the bifurcated settlement articulation mode account is explained.Less
This chapter critiques Thomas Emerson's interpretation of the countryside settlement pattern, which he claims supports the view that Cahokia was the dominant centralized power. It also interprets these same data in terms of the heterarchical polyistic locale-centric account. Subsequently, the chapter outlines the mortuary aspect of this archaeological record (primarily drawing on the work by George Milner, Melvin Fowler, Thomas Emerson, and supporting researchers), critiques the funerary paradigm interpretations that they give, and then presents the alternative Mourning/World Renewal Mortuary model. Then, it shows that the very same settlement data can be more coherently interpreted in terms of the World Renewal Cult Heterarchy model. It first introduces the sequential settlement articulation mode. In addition, the bifurcated settlement articulation mode account is explained.
A. Martin Byers
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813029580
- eISBN:
- 9780813039183
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813029580.003.0013
- Subject:
- Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology
This chapter provides a description of the mound and its associated material features and contents, a summary description of its larger context (Woodhenge 72), and a critique of the hierarchical ...
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This chapter provides a description of the mound and its associated material features and contents, a summary description of its larger context (Woodhenge 72), and a critique of the hierarchical account of this major feature. The chapter first discusses the most relevant components and associations of Mound 72. This is followed by the hierarchical monistic modular polity interpretation, which, of course, takes a strong funerary perspective with regard to the mortuary data and a symbolic referential perspective with regard to the monumental aspect of this mound and its archaeological context—in particular, what Melvin Fowler refers to as Woodhenge 72. Following a critique of the funerary and symbolic referential interpretations of these mortuary data and their immediate material context, the chapter reinterprets the same data in the framework of the Mourning/World Renewal Mortuary model and the symbolic pragmatic perspective. When Woodhenge 72 and its associated feature, Mound 72, are in total shown to be interpreted more coherently in these rather than the former terms, the World Renewal Cult Heterarchy model is strongly supported. The polyistic locale-centric heterarchical account explains both the monumental and mortuary data within an integrated theoretical framework.Less
This chapter provides a description of the mound and its associated material features and contents, a summary description of its larger context (Woodhenge 72), and a critique of the hierarchical account of this major feature. The chapter first discusses the most relevant components and associations of Mound 72. This is followed by the hierarchical monistic modular polity interpretation, which, of course, takes a strong funerary perspective with regard to the mortuary data and a symbolic referential perspective with regard to the monumental aspect of this mound and its archaeological context—in particular, what Melvin Fowler refers to as Woodhenge 72. Following a critique of the funerary and symbolic referential interpretations of these mortuary data and their immediate material context, the chapter reinterprets the same data in the framework of the Mourning/World Renewal Mortuary model and the symbolic pragmatic perspective. When Woodhenge 72 and its associated feature, Mound 72, are in total shown to be interpreted more coherently in these rather than the former terms, the World Renewal Cult Heterarchy model is strongly supported. The polyistic locale-centric heterarchical account explains both the monumental and mortuary data within an integrated theoretical framework.
Ocean Howell
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780226141398
- eISBN:
- 9780226290287
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226290287.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
In the period immediately following World War II, the federal government made tremendous investments in urban renewal and highway infrastructure. Many of the city's largest downtown-based ...
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In the period immediately following World War II, the federal government made tremendous investments in urban renewal and highway infrastructure. Many of the city's largest downtown-based corporations formed a lobbying group--the San Francisco Planning and Urban Renewal Association (SPUR)--that succeeded in controlling how and where this money would be spent. The downtown planning regime's priorities were freeways and the eradication of “blight.” The Mission District was slated for three freeways, though officials judged that two of them would cause too much damage to land values and tax revenues. The planning regime also quietly planned two Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) stations for the Mission. Neighborhood groups had little success influencing the process, but planning energies were not moribund. Indeed, the neighborhood planning traditions that dated back to the Progressive Era survived in remarkably similar form.Less
In the period immediately following World War II, the federal government made tremendous investments in urban renewal and highway infrastructure. Many of the city's largest downtown-based corporations formed a lobbying group--the San Francisco Planning and Urban Renewal Association (SPUR)--that succeeded in controlling how and where this money would be spent. The downtown planning regime's priorities were freeways and the eradication of “blight.” The Mission District was slated for three freeways, though officials judged that two of them would cause too much damage to land values and tax revenues. The planning regime also quietly planned two Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) stations for the Mission. Neighborhood groups had little success influencing the process, but planning energies were not moribund. Indeed, the neighborhood planning traditions that dated back to the Progressive Era survived in remarkably similar form.
Bob Smale
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781529204070
- eISBN:
- 9781529204117
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781529204070.003.0010
- Subject:
- Sociology, Politics, Social Movements and Social Change
This chapter first explores the implications of the work for the understanding of trade union identities and niche unionism. It argues for the multidimensional framework as being superior to a ...
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This chapter first explores the implications of the work for the understanding of trade union identities and niche unionism. It argues for the multidimensional framework as being superior to a one-dimensional continuum and other theorisations which are variously considered outdated, inappropriate or requiring rigid categorisation. Secondly it discusses critical questions with implications for the future of trade union organisation and the challenge of organising the unorganised. These concern the primacy of general unions, the persistence of niche unions, whether general or niche unions are better placed to organise the unorganised and whether niche identity is a barrier to expanding membership territories. It argues that despite an apparent ‘direction of travel’ from niche in general unions, new niche unions continue to be formed. Whilst general unions could absorb further niche unions and bring greater resources, niche unions might be better placed to organise the unorganised. It recognises that ‘new generation unions’, although not projecting a new form of identity, may prove a significant development in union renewal and revitalisation. Finally, it makes clear that the work is not presented as the last word on trade union identities and niche unionism, but rather a starting point for further debate and discussion.Less
This chapter first explores the implications of the work for the understanding of trade union identities and niche unionism. It argues for the multidimensional framework as being superior to a one-dimensional continuum and other theorisations which are variously considered outdated, inappropriate or requiring rigid categorisation. Secondly it discusses critical questions with implications for the future of trade union organisation and the challenge of organising the unorganised. These concern the primacy of general unions, the persistence of niche unions, whether general or niche unions are better placed to organise the unorganised and whether niche identity is a barrier to expanding membership territories. It argues that despite an apparent ‘direction of travel’ from niche in general unions, new niche unions continue to be formed. Whilst general unions could absorb further niche unions and bring greater resources, niche unions might be better placed to organise the unorganised. It recognises that ‘new generation unions’, although not projecting a new form of identity, may prove a significant development in union renewal and revitalisation. Finally, it makes clear that the work is not presented as the last word on trade union identities and niche unionism, but rather a starting point for further debate and discussion.
Lisa Uddin
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780816679119
- eISBN:
- 9781452950587
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816679119.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Ethical Issues and Debates
Why do we feel bad at the zoo? In a fascinating counterhistory of American zoos in the 1960s and 1970s, Lisa Uddin revisits the familiar narrative of zoo reform, from naked cages to more naturalistic ...
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Why do we feel bad at the zoo? In a fascinating counterhistory of American zoos in the 1960s and 1970s, Lisa Uddin revisits the familiar narrative of zoo reform, from naked cages to more naturalistic enclosures. She argues that reform belongs to the story of cities and feelings toward many of their human inhabitants. In Zoo Renewal, Uddin demonstrates how efforts to make the zoo more natural and a haven for particular species reflected white fears about the American city—and, pointedly, how the shame many visitors felt in observing confined animals drew on broader anxieties about race and urban life. Examining the campaign against cages, renovations at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. and the San Diego Zoo, and the cases of a rare female white Bengal tiger and a collection of southern white rhinoceroses, Uddin unpacks episodes that challenge assumptions that zoos are about other worlds and other creatures and expand the history of U.S. urbanism. Uddin shows how the drive to protect endangered species and to ensure larger, safer zoos was shaped by struggles over urban decay, suburban growth, and the dilemmas of postwar American whiteness. In so doing, Zoo Renewal ultimately reveals how feeling bad, or good, at the zoo is connected to our feelings about American cities and their residents.Less
Why do we feel bad at the zoo? In a fascinating counterhistory of American zoos in the 1960s and 1970s, Lisa Uddin revisits the familiar narrative of zoo reform, from naked cages to more naturalistic enclosures. She argues that reform belongs to the story of cities and feelings toward many of their human inhabitants. In Zoo Renewal, Uddin demonstrates how efforts to make the zoo more natural and a haven for particular species reflected white fears about the American city—and, pointedly, how the shame many visitors felt in observing confined animals drew on broader anxieties about race and urban life. Examining the campaign against cages, renovations at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. and the San Diego Zoo, and the cases of a rare female white Bengal tiger and a collection of southern white rhinoceroses, Uddin unpacks episodes that challenge assumptions that zoos are about other worlds and other creatures and expand the history of U.S. urbanism. Uddin shows how the drive to protect endangered species and to ensure larger, safer zoos was shaped by struggles over urban decay, suburban growth, and the dilemmas of postwar American whiteness. In so doing, Zoo Renewal ultimately reveals how feeling bad, or good, at the zoo is connected to our feelings about American cities and their residents.
Edward Orozco Flores
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781479884148
- eISBN:
- 9781479854561
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479884148.003.0023
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This chapter builds upon a gap in the field of criminology by investigating how CRS and LA Voice, as umbrella faith-based community organizing groups, shaped the social integration of former gang ...
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This chapter builds upon a gap in the field of criminology by investigating how CRS and LA Voice, as umbrella faith-based community organizing groups, shaped the social integration of former gang members and the formerly incarcerated. CRS and LA Voice’s contrasting religious traditions shaped how they facilitated members’ participation in community organizing. LA Voice leaders drew from Catholic theologies and practices and a relationship-based model of community organizing to foster members’ civic participation. This approach is termed pastoral prophetic redemption. By contrast, CRS leaders drew from the historical Black Protestant church’s theologies and practices and an issue-based model of community organizing to foster members’ civic participation. This approach is termed insurgent prophetic redemption.Less
This chapter builds upon a gap in the field of criminology by investigating how CRS and LA Voice, as umbrella faith-based community organizing groups, shaped the social integration of former gang members and the formerly incarcerated. CRS and LA Voice’s contrasting religious traditions shaped how they facilitated members’ participation in community organizing. LA Voice leaders drew from Catholic theologies and practices and a relationship-based model of community organizing to foster members’ civic participation. This approach is termed pastoral prophetic redemption. By contrast, CRS leaders drew from the historical Black Protestant church’s theologies and practices and an issue-based model of community organizing to foster members’ civic participation. This approach is termed insurgent prophetic redemption.
Larry Bennett
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2022
- ISBN:
- 9781447329497
- eISBN:
- 9781447329541
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447329497.003.0014
- Subject:
- Political Science, Environmental Politics
This chapter begins by tracing the evolution of neighbourhood planning techniques in the United States. It highlights the importance of the federal system of government in generating a multitude of ...
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This chapter begins by tracing the evolution of neighbourhood planning techniques in the United States. It highlights the importance of the federal system of government in generating a multitude of structural approaches to neighbourhood planning. In the early post-Second World War era, national initiatives such as Urban Renewal and the Community Action Program mandated neighbourhood consultation in the shaping and implementation of policy. Although the effectiveness of these consultative measures was the subject of much debate, they did seed many subsequent efforts to link planning and citizen participation. The latter part of this 20th-century policy tour touches on initiatives that have been mounted either by municipal governments or through the efforts of locally based activist movements. The chapter then looks at three contemporary variants of neighbourhood planning: what might be characterised as ‘classic’ neighbourhood planning by Portland, Oregon's neighbourhood council and New York City's community board systems; Chicago's community policing initiative; and the fashioning of community benefits agreements (CBAs) in several Californian cities. It also reconsiders the most expansive inflection of the expansive view of neighbourhood planning: that neighbourhood planning can serve as a platform for achieving substantial social transformation.Less
This chapter begins by tracing the evolution of neighbourhood planning techniques in the United States. It highlights the importance of the federal system of government in generating a multitude of structural approaches to neighbourhood planning. In the early post-Second World War era, national initiatives such as Urban Renewal and the Community Action Program mandated neighbourhood consultation in the shaping and implementation of policy. Although the effectiveness of these consultative measures was the subject of much debate, they did seed many subsequent efforts to link planning and citizen participation. The latter part of this 20th-century policy tour touches on initiatives that have been mounted either by municipal governments or through the efforts of locally based activist movements. The chapter then looks at three contemporary variants of neighbourhood planning: what might be characterised as ‘classic’ neighbourhood planning by Portland, Oregon's neighbourhood council and New York City's community board systems; Chicago's community policing initiative; and the fashioning of community benefits agreements (CBAs) in several Californian cities. It also reconsiders the most expansive inflection of the expansive view of neighbourhood planning: that neighbourhood planning can serve as a platform for achieving substantial social transformation.
Joel Rast
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780226661445
- eISBN:
- 9780226661612
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226661612.003.0005
- Subject:
- Political Science, Public Policy
This chapter focuses on the push for institutional change that accompanied the shift from the paradigm of privatism to that of public-private redevelopment partnerships in mid-twentieth century ...
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This chapter focuses on the push for institutional change that accompanied the shift from the paradigm of privatism to that of public-private redevelopment partnerships in mid-twentieth century Chicago. The fragmentation of the city’s institutional arrangements posed an obstacle to the new slum clearance and redevelopment program, since execution of projects required centralized decision making and limited opportunities to delay and obstruct projects. The chapter describes the decade-long effort to consolidate the city’s various agencies involved with the city’s redevelopment program in one department, eliminating inefficiencies and making the obstruction of projects more difficult. The chapter findings support the argument that the prospects for new policy paradigms are determined in part by their fit with a city’s institutional arrangements.Less
This chapter focuses on the push for institutional change that accompanied the shift from the paradigm of privatism to that of public-private redevelopment partnerships in mid-twentieth century Chicago. The fragmentation of the city’s institutional arrangements posed an obstacle to the new slum clearance and redevelopment program, since execution of projects required centralized decision making and limited opportunities to delay and obstruct projects. The chapter describes the decade-long effort to consolidate the city’s various agencies involved with the city’s redevelopment program in one department, eliminating inefficiencies and making the obstruction of projects more difficult. The chapter findings support the argument that the prospects for new policy paradigms are determined in part by their fit with a city’s institutional arrangements.
Tim Blackman
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781861346117
- eISBN:
- 9781447302971
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781861346117.001.0001
- Subject:
- Public Health and Epidemiology, Public Health
Where people live matters to their health. Health-improvement strategies often target where people live, but do they work? This book tackles this question by exploring new theoretical, empirical, and ...
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Where people live matters to their health. Health-improvement strategies often target where people live, but do they work? This book tackles this question by exploring new theoretical, empirical, and practice perspectives on this issue, anchored by major studies of England's Neighbourhood Renewal Strategy and the Programme for Action on health inequalities. It uses complexity theory to understand the inter-relationships between neighbourhood change, the emergence of states of health, and policy interventions managed using performance indicators. This is complemented by reviews of the international evidence base on area effects and neighbourhood change, supplemented by new insights from the author's own research and experience as an advisor to local-neighbourhood-renewal strategies. The book is a wide-ranging study with many new examples of the impact of neighbourhood conditions from smoking to dementia.Less
Where people live matters to their health. Health-improvement strategies often target where people live, but do they work? This book tackles this question by exploring new theoretical, empirical, and practice perspectives on this issue, anchored by major studies of England's Neighbourhood Renewal Strategy and the Programme for Action on health inequalities. It uses complexity theory to understand the inter-relationships between neighbourhood change, the emergence of states of health, and policy interventions managed using performance indicators. This is complemented by reviews of the international evidence base on area effects and neighbourhood change, supplemented by new insights from the author's own research and experience as an advisor to local-neighbourhood-renewal strategies. The book is a wide-ranging study with many new examples of the impact of neighbourhood conditions from smoking to dementia.
Douglas A. Boyd and W. Fitzhugh Brundage
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780813134086
- eISBN:
- 9780813135892
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813134086.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
The introduction presents the scenario of a neighborhood that was branded with the reputation as the “bad-part-of-town” and how an oral history project challenged outsider's perceptions of this ...
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The introduction presents the scenario of a neighborhood that was branded with the reputation as the “bad-part-of-town” and how an oral history project challenged outsider's perceptions of this neighborhood and its history by documenting the former resident's perspective and stories. It introduces the concept of “reclaiming” public memory from the entrenched reputation and re-examines the process of reconstructing community in memory when the community being remembered was destroyed by Urban Renewal in the mid-1960s.Less
The introduction presents the scenario of a neighborhood that was branded with the reputation as the “bad-part-of-town” and how an oral history project challenged outsider's perceptions of this neighborhood and its history by documenting the former resident's perspective and stories. It introduces the concept of “reclaiming” public memory from the entrenched reputation and re-examines the process of reconstructing community in memory when the community being remembered was destroyed by Urban Renewal in the mid-1960s.
A. Martin Byers
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813029580
- eISBN:
- 9780813039183
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813029580.003.0005
- Subject:
- Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology
This chapter argues that, from the beginning, the same-gender/same-age cults have been autonomous communal cults. The evolution of the American Bottom, therefore, is largely the evolution of the ...
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This chapter argues that, from the beginning, the same-gender/same-age cults have been autonomous communal cults. The evolution of the American Bottom, therefore, is largely the evolution of the arm's-length relations between the relatively autonomous cults and clans. The chapter also elaborates on the required mortuary and cult models to complete the theoretical framework required to interpret critically Cahokia and the American Bottom in these terms. It considers the theoretical perspective underwriting the Cemetery model as the funerary paradigm. It argues that the American Bottom mortuary data can be best treated as the expression of a complex mortuary sphere constituted by an integrated system of mortuary behaviors incorporating both clan-based funerary and cult-based world renewal rituals. However, a theory that can be used to interpret the mortuary data in these terms must be first elucidated. The chapter then postulates that the American Bottom mortuary record was the ritual outcome and medium by which both human and world renewal were accomplished simultaneously. The Mourning/World Renewal Mortuary model and the Autonomous Cult model are specifically reviewed. Moreover, a critical discussion of cults and social systems is provided.Less
This chapter argues that, from the beginning, the same-gender/same-age cults have been autonomous communal cults. The evolution of the American Bottom, therefore, is largely the evolution of the arm's-length relations between the relatively autonomous cults and clans. The chapter also elaborates on the required mortuary and cult models to complete the theoretical framework required to interpret critically Cahokia and the American Bottom in these terms. It considers the theoretical perspective underwriting the Cemetery model as the funerary paradigm. It argues that the American Bottom mortuary data can be best treated as the expression of a complex mortuary sphere constituted by an integrated system of mortuary behaviors incorporating both clan-based funerary and cult-based world renewal rituals. However, a theory that can be used to interpret the mortuary data in these terms must be first elucidated. The chapter then postulates that the American Bottom mortuary record was the ritual outcome and medium by which both human and world renewal were accomplished simultaneously. The Mourning/World Renewal Mortuary model and the Autonomous Cult model are specifically reviewed. Moreover, a critical discussion of cults and social systems is provided.
A. Martin Byers
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813029580
- eISBN:
- 9780813039183
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813029580.003.0009
- Subject:
- Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology
This chapter provides an elucidation of the World Renewal Cult Heterarchy model. This model is specifically designed to articulate the type of social system manifested in Cahokia and the other mound ...
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This chapter provides an elucidation of the World Renewal Cult Heterarchy model. This model is specifically designed to articulate the type of social system manifested in Cahokia and the other mound locales that would be consistent with the principles of immanent sacredness, squatter ethos, inclusive territorialism, custodial domain, agentive autonomy, enabling hierarchy, and so on, these being the basic concepts underwriting the heterarchical polyistic locale-centric account of Cahokia and its associated mound locales. It also treats Cahokia as a cooperative and very active religious center of a complex mutualistic world renewal cult heterarchy. In addition, an overview of the American Bottom Mississippian period system is given.Less
This chapter provides an elucidation of the World Renewal Cult Heterarchy model. This model is specifically designed to articulate the type of social system manifested in Cahokia and the other mound locales that would be consistent with the principles of immanent sacredness, squatter ethos, inclusive territorialism, custodial domain, agentive autonomy, enabling hierarchy, and so on, these being the basic concepts underwriting the heterarchical polyistic locale-centric account of Cahokia and its associated mound locales. It also treats Cahokia as a cooperative and very active religious center of a complex mutualistic world renewal cult heterarchy. In addition, an overview of the American Bottom Mississippian period system is given.
