Community Groups in Context

Whilst there is a growing body of literature on formal voluntary organisations, relatively little research has been undertaken into the roles and functioning of small, informal, below the radar community groups and actions. ‘Community groups in context: Local activities and actions’ brings together a decade of research with informal community groups and small scale civil society organisations. It explores the wealth and diversity of their forms and activities, their fragility, strategies for survival and their position in relation to a range of public policy objectives. In particular the book examines under-researched aspects of small scale community action: from voluntary arts through to Gypsy, Traveller and Roma groups through to how people learn through to how activists learn, the emotional investment in community action and the voice of below the radar groups in local and national policy contexts.

Action (physics) · Business · Civil society · Context (archaeology) · Diversity (politics) · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Political science · Position (finance) · Public relations · Scale (ratio) · Social science · Sociology · The arts · Voluntary action · Voluntary association · Irish and British Studies · Communities · Community organization

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