Community Intervention: Clinical Sociology Perspectives

Foreword; Katia Araujo, Huairou Commission.- Chapter 1. Introduction; Jan Marie Fritz and Jacques Rheaume - Profile. Wangari Maathai and the Green Belt Movement; Elena Bass.- Part I. The Basics of Community Practice.- Chapter 2. Essentials of Community Intervention; Jan Marie Fritz - Profile: Saul Alinsky and Community Organizing; John Yung.- Chapter 3. Research for the Community; Jacques Rheaume - Profile: Orlando Fals-Borda and Participatory Action Research; Jeff Kelley.- Chapter 4. The Researcher's Mark: What Researchers bring to Communities and What May or May Not be Left Behind When Their Work is Done by Jenifer Cartland and Holly S. Ruch-Ross - Profile: Jane Addams and Hull-House; Jan Marie Fritz.- Part II. Selected Applications.- Chapter 5. Community Development and Empowerment: A Clinical Sociology Perspective; Jacques Rheaume.- Chapter 6. The Healthy Cities/Communities Movement: The Global Diffusion of Local Initiatives; Harry Perlstadt.- Chapter 7. Cultural Encounters: A Research-Intervention Approach for Working with Immigrants in the Community by Catherine Montgomery; Spyridoula Xenocostas and Vania Jimenez.- Chapter 8. Coeducation in the Popular Districts of Marseille; Pierre Roche.- Chapter 9. Economic Intervention in Communities: The Québec Case; Jean-Marc Fontan and Lucie Dumais.- Chapter 10. Climate Change and Adaptation in Metro Manila: Intersecting Structures of Power in Community Interventions; Emma Porio.- Chapter 11. Human Rights Cities: The Transformation of Communities or Simply Treading Water?; Judith Blau.- Chapter 12. Involving Residents in the Design of Urban Renewal Projects based upon a Generative Analysis of Social Processes; Michel Bonetti and Jean-Didier Laforgue.- Chapter 13. Riding Off into the Sunset? Establishing an Inclusive Post-Apartheid South African Community; Tina Uys.