Mobilizing Communities

Gary Paul Green is Professor in the Department of Community and Environmental Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and author, most recently, of Workforce Development Networks in Rural Areas: Building the High Road.Ann Goetting is Professor of Sociology at Western Kentucky University.  She is the author or editor of three previous books, including (with Sarah Fenstermaker), Individual Voices, Collective Visions: Fifty Years of Women in Sociology (Temple).

"Mobilizing Communities is a collection of interesting case studies that are rich in detail about the process of community development in places such as Guatemala, Alabama, and West Chicago. What these wide-ranging places have in common is using assets as the basis for sustainable development. There are relatively few books containing case studies in community development and, in particular that focus on assets, which makes this book unique, new, and valuable to community development academics and practitioners."-John Gruidl, Illinois Institute for Rural Affairs, Western Illinois University

• 1. Community Assets: Building the Capacity for Development – Gary Paul Green 2. Investing in the Double Bottom Line: Growing Financial Institutions in Native Communities – Sarah Dewees and Stewart Sarkozy- Banoczy 3. Asset- Based Community Development in Alabama’s Black Belt: Seven Strategies for Building a Diverse Community Movement – Emily Blejwas 4. The Politics of Protected Areas: Environmental Capital and Community Confl ict in Guatemala – Michael L. Dougherty and RocÍo Peralta 5. Linking Cultural Capital Conceptions to Asset- Based Community Development – Rhonda Phillips and Gordon Shockley 6. Neighborhood Approaches to Asset Mobilization: Building Chicago’s West Side – John P. Kretzmann and Deborah Puntenney 7. Natural Amenities and Asset- Based Development in Rural Communities – Gary Paul Green 8. Implementing Community Development in the Mississippi Delta: The Effect of Organizations on Resident Participation – Mark H. Harvey and Lionel J. Beaulieu 9. Lessons Learned – Gary Paul Green Contributors Index