Urban Action Networks: HIV/AIDS and Community Organizing in New York City

by Howard Lune

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742540847
• ISBN13: 9780742540842
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.4"