Community Organizing
Practice, Research, and Policy Implications
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12908152 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Brian D Christens (0000-0002-8427-3668, University of Wisconsin–Madison, corresponding author), Paul W Speer (0000-0003-0860-0652, Vanderbilt University) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 193-222 |
| Publication date | 2015-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Issues and Policy Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1751-2395 • E-ISSN: 1751-2409 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/sipr.12014 |
| OpenAlex | W1500684261 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 64 |
| References cited | 86 |
Community organizing—a field of practice in which residents collaboratively investigate and undertake sustained collective action regarding social issues of mutual concern—has often proven an effective method for achieving changes in policies and systems at local, regional, and even national scales. The field is dynamic. It has expanded and has undergone numerous changes over recent decades. Research from a variety of disciplines has documented, evaluated, and informed many of these changes. This article scrutinizes the evolving field of community organizing, with a particular focus on the current state of social and psychological research on broad‐based community organizing processes and outcomes. These findings include not only the effects of community organizing efforts on policies and systems, but also the influences of community organizing on psychological changes among the people and groups who participate. These findings are incorporated into recommendations for policies, practices, and future research
Action (physics · Collective action · Community organization · Community organizing · Field (mathematics · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Sociology · State (computer science · Variety (cybernetics · Community Health and Development · Computer Science · Homelessness and Social Issues · Psychology · Youth Development and Social Support
Building a Climate Movement Through Relational Organizing
Bringing Leadership Back In
Social policy with the citizen at the centre. The social service centre as a new Polish institution and an example of service-based modernisation of social policy
Democracy in Action
Learning to claim power in a contentious public sphere
Building a Primary Prevention Ecosystem in the United States
State Supplemental Benefits for Informal Kinship Caregivers
Local enterprise as a catalyst
Meaning-making as Empowerment
A Community Resilience Framework for community development practitioners building equity and adaptive capacity
A conceptual framework for integrating bicycle friendliness into community development
Drawing our future
Citizen and specialist co-design of energy policy
Collective parent action
Integrating Lessons about Community into the PreK-12 Curriculum
Ignited fire
Sustaining the grassroots
Organizing Together
Attivazione giovanile nelle aree interne. L'esperienza del progetto Arco
Surveying for Environmental Health Justice
Witnessing, saving, serving? A relational approach to community development in the suburbs of a global city
Overview of “home” cultivation policies and the case for community-based cannabis supply
Care-full climate justice organising
Re-engaging social relationships and collective dimensions of organizing to revive democratic practice
Constructing alternatives
From titular to radical empathy
Discourse, legitimacy, and bottom-to-bottom change
Increasing support for the prevention of adverse childhood experiences and substance use
Community Organizing and Transformative Change in the Response to Domestic Violence in India
Community Organizing and Counter Narratives in the Response to Domestic Violence in India
Community organizing during the Covid‐19 pandemic
Building Meaningful Community Advocacy for Ethnic‐based Health Equity
Assessing Community Participation
Critical adult education and community organizing
A southwestern grassroots community coalition of undocumented Mexican community members
Community coalitions as spaces for collective voice, action, and the sharing of resources
This was 1976 reinvented”
The interacting effects of psychological empowerment and ethnic identity on indicators of well‐being among youth of color
Psychological and political liberation
An examination of ethnic identity as a mediator of the effects of community participation and neighborhood sense of community on psychological empowerment among urban youth of color
Participation in community organizing
From victims to citizens
Defend, disrupt, and build
Community organizing
Negotiating Power
Validation of an abbreviated Sociopolitical Control Scale for Youth among a sample of underresourced urban youth of color
Communitarianism and youth empowerment
Transformation to leadership
Disrupting White racial dominance
Psychological sense of community and motivation toward collective social change among community coalition members of color in the southwestern United States
Youth anti‐racism action
Speaking power to power
Building power through reindigenization
Efficient Social Justice
The Backdrop of Equity Efforts
Measuring Intrapersonal Psychological Empowerment and Ethnic Identity
Finding 'Home' and Navigating 'Cultural Precarity
Widening the view
Asset-based community development and happiness in community residents in Taiwan
Exploring the Ebbs and Flows of Community Engagement
The Unity Wall project
Conceptions of Power and Role of Religion in Community Organising
Exploring community stress and empowerment among stakeholders and youth in an urban community
Beyond the Ballot
Psychological Sense of Community
Critical participatory action research as public science.
Youth Organizing as a Developmental Context for African American and Latino Adolescents
Community Participation and Psychological Empowerment
Race Is Not Neutral
The theory of planned behavior
Diminished Democracy
Community Organizing and Social Change
Power and Trust in the Public Realm
Everyday Politics
Dry Bones Rattling
Unanticipated Gains
Cognitive Empowerment of African Americans and Caucasians
Taking stock of youth organizing
From Periphery to Center
Citizen Participation in Neighborhood Organizations and Its Relationship to Volunteers' Self- and Collective Efficacy and Sense of Community
Research for Democracy
Community Organizing in Britain
Community Organizing and Regionalism
Local Community Organizing and Change
Sense of community, civic engagement and social well‐being in Italian adolescents
Perspectives on Systems Change Among Local Change Agents
The intentional exercise of power
Youth Organizers as Young Adults
Going Regional
Credit to the Community
Metropolitics
Schools and Urban Revitalization
Reframing Community Practice for the 21 St Century
A different face of faith‐based politics
Dry Bones Rattling
Power and Powerlessness
Contextual Influences on Participation in Community Organizing
Organizational characteristics of empowering community settings
The Influence of Participation, Gender and Organizational Sense of Community on Psychological Empowerment
Psychological empowerment
Critical Hopefulness
Community organizing
Channeling Power Across Ecological Systems
The Psychology and Practice of Youth‐Adult Partnership
Measuring the Intrapersonal Component of Psychological Empowerment
Public relationship building in grassroots community organizing
Measuring youth empowerment
Developing social capital through participation in organized youth programs
Sense of community in community organizations
Social class as moderator of the relationship between (dis)empowering processes and psychological empowerment
Pushing the envelope on youth civic engagement
Community organizations and sense of community
Common Ground at Ground Zero? The New Economy and the New Organizing in Los Angeles
Economic Development or Social Development? A Strategy for Rebuilding Inner Cities
An Approach to Scholarly Impact through Strategic Engagement in Community‐Based Research
Don’t Be a Blockhead
Citizenship and Civic Engagement
Mobilizing communities
Community Organizing and Community-Based Redevelopment in Cedar-Riverside and East Toledo
Tailoring Organizational Characteristics for Empowerment
Lessons for Academics for Grassroots Community Organizing
Critical consciousness
Empowering Community Settings
Bowling Alone
Sense of community
Social capital and social inequality in adolescents' health in 601 Flemish communities
The health politics of asthma
Community organizing practices in a globalizing era
Organizing Urban America
Heeding the Push from Below
Social Capital and Political Culture
Studying the Struggle
Power and Powerlessness
Drawing New Symbolic Boundaries over Old Social Boundaries
Religious Culture and Political Action
The Strength of Weak Ties
| Unique citing works | 64 |
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| Citations per year | 5,82 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2026 (12) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 64 |