Beschreibung:
Urban Action Networks is a study of how communities organize in response to threats to their lives and well being. As HIV/AIDS wreaked havoc on the worlds of some of the most marginal and disenfranchised people in New York, they came together to create a shared response, forming a new organizational field within which their various efforts were coordinated. How the communities of the most affected people organized, reorganized, and redefined the social and political context of HIV/AIDS offers an encouraging glimpse into the way in which marginal communities can convert shared needs into collective action.
Chapter 1 Introduction: Boundaries and Borders Chapter 2 Formal and Informal Responses, 1981-1991 Chapter 3 A New Field of Work Chapter 4 Collective Identity and Re-organization Chapter 5 HIV/AIDS, Drug Use, and Zero Tolerance, 1985-1990 Chapter 6 The ACT UP Years Chapter 7 A New State-Centered Strategy Chapter 8 Urban Action Networks Chapter 9 Afterword