The state and community action / Terry Robson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Robson, Terry, 1942-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civil society.

Civil society--Case studies.

Gramsci, Antonio, 1891-1937--Contributions in political science.

Gramsci, Antonio.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; Sterling, Va : Pluto Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Introduction

Part I. The Theoretical Context

1. The State and Hegemony

Rediscovering civil society

The State

Hegemony and counter- hegemony

Hegemony and political and civil society

A philosophy of praxis

Common sense

2. Coercion, Community and Civil Society

Social control - a debate about ideological hegemony?

The role of the state

3. Community as Counter-Hegemony

In defence of community

In defence of change

Community as a model of change?

In defence of local resources

4. The Co-option of Radicalism

The genesis of community development

Letting the poor manage their own poverty

Community relations and co- option

5. Community, Catholicism and Communitarianism

The communitarian influence

Liberalism versus communitarianism: a false debate?

Catholicism and communitarianism

Communitarianism: a conservatism ideology

Part II. The Case Studies

6. Northern Ireland: The Evolution of a Counter- Hegemony

The community relations dimension

Dove House Community Trust

Community, class and ideology

A culture of resistance

7. The United States: Poverty and the Catholic Worker Movement

The Poverty Programme

The Catholic Worker movement

Viva House and the Catholic Worker movement in Baltimore

8. Romania: Charity as Social Control

The problem of Aids as an example of social neglect

Fagaras

The Romanian Relief Fund

Conclusion

Notes

Chapter 1: The State and Hegemony

Chapter 2: Coercion, Community and Civil Society

Chapter 3: Community as Counter- Hegemony

Chapter 4: The Co- option of Radicalism

Chapter 5: Community, Catholicism and Communitarianism

Chapter 6: Northern Ireland: the Evolution of a Counter- Hegemony

Chapter 7: The United States: Poverty and the Catholic Worker Movement.

Chapter 8: Romania: Charity as Social Control

Bibliography

Newspapers

Index

Abel-Smith, 99

Action for Boston, 173

Action for Community Employment [ACE]

153

155

Adams, G. 182

Adamson, M. 107-8

Advisory Conference of Community Associations [ACCA]

150

Africa

6

95

200

203

204

Aids 200

Albania 194

Alienation

60

83

222

Alinsky, S. 109

Almond, M.

193

198

America [US] 178

American Civil War

106

184

American Communist Party 178-9

Americans for Democratic Action [ADA]

170

173

Anderton, J.

5

53

54

Annexation Act [1918] 183

Anti-sectarianism 218

Anti-semitism 181

Aquinas, St Thomas 127

Ashbridge 96

Ashdown, P.

Ashdown, P 115

Ashdown, P 125

Association of Community Workers 70

Association of Local Authorities [ALA] 149

Atkinson, D.

114

125

135

Attlee, C. 117

Avanti 16

Babon, G. 200

Baine, S. 67

Bakunin, M. 62

Balkans, the 194

Baltimore [US]

8

37 176

180

182

Batterham, F. 178

Belgium 97

Bernstein, E.

16

18

Berrigan, D. 176

Bethlehem Steel 188

Bickham, W.

177

183

186

187

Biddle, W. 111

Birmingham [UK]

129

Black Panthers [US]

Blair, T.

14

93

and stakeholders' society 125

Bloody Sunday [Derry] 157

Blueshirts [Ireland]

35

120

Body, L. 210

Boggs, C.

27

36

63

Bogside Community Association

148

157

162

Bogside, the

44

49

70

158

160

161

163

164

165

Borgos, S. 108

Boyle, S.

205

208

210

Brasov [Romania]

201

206

223

Briggs, A.

50

Britain

7

43

British Charitable Organisation 94

British Union of Fascists

Broady, M. 84.

Brown, S. 173

Bryant, R. 102

Bucharest

195

199

Buckingham Palace 192

Bukharin

17

34

40

Burke, E. 45

Burns, E. 186

Bush, G. 193

Callaghan, J. 103

Cambridge Summer Conference [1948] 95

Campbell, G. 161

Canada 179

Capitalism

57

103

190

Caplowitz, D. 170

Carter, J. 188

Catholic Church

126

127

175

Catholic emancipation 46

Catholic middle-class

146

Catholic Worker community 176

Catholic Worker movement

107

171

176

189

Catholic Worker, the

179

181

Catholicism

115

221

Ceausescu, E.

9

192

Ceausescu, N.

194

196

197

202

209

212

Celtic art 164

Central Information and Intelligence Unit 100

Centre for Environment Studies 100

Chadwick, E.R. 95

Chamberlain, J. 114

Charitable work 211

Chartism

45

Chicago

108

Children in Need 189

Chile 91

Christian Fellowship [NI] 210

Citizens Planning [US] 184

Civil Rights

116

139

141

217

Civil Rights Law 1957 [US] 172

Civil Rights Movement [NI]

4

91

167

Civil Rights Movement [US]

75

Civil Services Department 100

Civil society

19

51

112

124

131

132

133

134

211

215

216

218

219

220

224

Claimants ' unions,

68

Clarke, D. 128

Clarke, K.B. 174

Class Struggles in France 23

Clinton, W.J. 126

Cloward, R.

56

174

Cohen, S.

55

61

Cold War, the 180

Cole, G.D.H. 92

Coleraine [NI] 139

Colonial Office [UK]

97

memorandum 97.

Combat Poverty Programme 155

Commins, P. 80-1

Commons, House of 116

Commonsense 29

Commonweal [US] 177

Communism

13

118

Communist International 3

Communist Party

Communitarianism

6-7

119

123

and religious fundamentalism 118

Community

72

100

111

130

as harmonious entity 76

as ideology 167

as social construct 116

as socio-therapy 56

Community business 70

Community development

69

73

76

77

81

96

142

143

154

213

as process 84

Community Development Projects [CDP]

74

80

99

101

102

Community Development Review Group [CDRG]

Community entrepreneur 70

Community movement

89

Community politics 75

Community Progress Incorporated [US] 173

Community Relations Commission [CRC]

140

144

145

152

166

Community Relations Council [NI]

Community Relations, Ministry of 145

Community volunteers 68

Community work

as socio-therapy 69

as socio-therapy 71: as socio-therapy 65

Community worker

Community Worker Research Project

149

Confederation of British Industry [CBI] 57

Conference of Socialist Economists

Conference of the Mayors [US] 175

Connolly, J. 35

Conradh na Gaeilge [Gaelic League]

159

Conservatives

98

117

128

Conway Mill

151

Cooper, I.

147.

Corina, L. 112

Costello, John A. 35

Coventry 101

Crabbe, G. 45

Craigavon [NI] 151

Croce, B.

26

Crosland, A. 98

Crossmaglen [NI]

104

Crossman, R. 92

Crotty, R.

46

Culture of poverty 162

Culture of resistance 163

Currie, A. 146

Czechoslovakia

67

Daily Mirror 52

Danube Canal 194

Danube Delta 194

Day, D.

De Valera, E. 125

Deane, E. 147

Dearlove, J.

52

87

Demaine, J.

Democratic Party [US]

Democratic Unionist Party [NI] 161

Department of Community Relations [NI] 142

Department of Economic Development [DED]

47

58

Department of Education [DENI]

Department of Health and Social Services [DHSS] 160

Dependency culture

Derry [NI]

Desertification 184

Devlin, P. 146

Direct Rule [NI] 161

District Councils

Doherty, P. 147

Doherty, T. 147

Donegal [Ireland] 204

Dove House [Derry]

Downtown Cluster of Organisations [Washington DC] 170

Dubliners, the 164

Durkheim, E. 128

Economic Opportunity Act [US] 174

Economism 40

Economist, The

Education system 44

Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, the 23

Eisenhower Doctrine 170

Eisenhower, D.

109

El Salvador 191

Ellis Island [US] 107

Empiricism

Engels, F.

20

28

Enlightenment, the 45

Enterprise Allowance Scheme 88

Enterprise culture 42

Enthusiasm [Baltimore] 190

Entrepreneurism

42

94

Etzioni, A.

121.

123.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-243) and index.

ISBN:

9780585426075

0585426074

9781849640534

184964053X

OCLC:

923330557