Awards
- Joint winner for ARNOVA Award for Outstanding Book in Nonprofit and Voluntary Action Research 2009.
- Joint winner of ARNOVA Award for Outstanding Book in Nonprofit and Voluntary Action Research 2009
- Winner of 2009 Outstanding Book in Nonprofit and Voluntary Action Research Award from The Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA);.
Overview
Urban Action Networks is a study of how communities organize in response to threats to their lives and well being. As HIV/AIDS wreaked havoc on the worlds of some of the most marginal and disenfranchised people in New York, they came together to create a shared response, forming a new organizational field within which their various efforts were coordinated. This book traces the interorganizational processes by which the groups negotiated shared meanings, collective strategies, and a complex, shifting set of relations with local and national government. It covers the first decade of AIDS, when the organized community groups actively set the agenda. How the communities of the most affected people organized, reorganized, and redefined the social and political context of HIV/AIDS offers an encouraging glimpse into the way in which marginal communities can convert shared needs into collective action.
Full Product Details
Author: Howard Lune
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 23.80cm
Weight: 0.454kg
ISBN: 9780742540835
ISBN 10: 0742540839
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 28 December 2006
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
This is a fascinating study of one of the most important and tragic public health events of our generation. It traces the trajectory of the struggle over the definition of AIDS, the slow institutional response, and the dynamics of blocked action and finally getting action through the medium of action networks. It is a brilliant combination of detached observation and compassionate understanding - a must read for the activist insiders and a lesson for the rest of us watching a crisis unfold and wondering how to react.--Wolf Heydebrand
This is a fascinating study of one of the most important and tragic public health events of our generation. It traces the trajectory of the struggle over the definition of AIDS, the slow institutional response, and the dynamics of blocked action and finally getting action through the medium of action networks. It is a brilliant combination of detached observation and compassionate understanding - a must read for the activist insiders and a lesson for the rest of us watching a crisis unfold and wondering how to react. -- Wolf Heydebrand, New York University This is a meticulously written ethnography of the dynamics of the political economy of the New York AIDS organizational field from 1981 to 1999...Urban Action Networks is an important contribution to the study of nonprofits, organizational networks, and health policy. The book is a must read for those doing research on and teaching topics related to the role of nonprofit organizations, social networks and social movements in shaping health policy, research, and service provision in the United States. -- Nielan Barnes Mobilization, April 2007
Author Information
Howard Lune is associate professor of Sociology at Hunter College, CUNY.
