1st Edition
Collective Action and Urban Poverty Alleviation Community Organizations and the Struggle for Shelter in Manila
By Gavin Shatkin
Copyright 2007
184 Pages
by
Routledge
184 Pages
by
Routledge
184 Pages
by
Routledge
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An estimated 600 million people now live in informal or 'squatter' settlements in the rapidly growing cities of the developing world. With such settlements often lacking basic necessities, there is an urgent need to address this urban crisis. Recently, innovative approaches have focused on the role of community-based organizations (CBOs) in setting up self-help and participatory programmes. This... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Obstacles to Empowerment: Local Politics and Community Organizing in Metro Manila; Chapter 3 Community-Based Organizations and the State: Five Case Studies; Chapter 4 Building Communities: Social Capital and Part Icipation in CBOS; Chapter 5 Political Identities and Collective Action; Chapter 6 A Quantitive Assessment of Community Organizing in Metro Manila; Chapter 7 A Comparative Perspective on Collective Action and Community Change;
Biography
Dr Gavin Shatkin is Assistant Professor at the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, USA.
'How effective are neighborhood participation and citizen organizing as tools of development? The perfect test may be in Manila, which exploded with organizations after the collapse of the Marcos dictatorship in 1986. Anyone wondering about limits to local democracy - in poor neighborhoods anywhere - should read this thorough study.' William W. Goldsmith, Director, Cornell University, USA
