John Mcknight

The Abundant Community

Awakening the Power of Families and Neighborhoods

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We need our neighbors and community to stay healthy, produce jobs, raise our children, and care for those on the margin. Institutions and professional services have reached their limit of their ability to help us. The consumer society tells us that we are insufficient and that we must purchase what we need from specialists and systems outside the community. We have become consumers and clients, not citizens and neighbors. John McKnight and Peter Block show that we have the capacity to find real and sustainable satisfaction right in our neighborhood and community. This book reports on voluntary, self-organizing structures that focus on gifts… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Block, Peter

ISBN: 978-1-60509-627-8
EAN: 9781605096278
Produktnummer: 13799340
Verlag: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Seitenangabe: 200 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 2'108 KB
Auflage: 1. Auflage

Über den Autor

John McKnight is emeritus professor of education and social policy and codirector of the Asset-Based Community Development Institute at Northwestern University. He is the coauthor of Building Communities from the Inside Out and the author of The Careless Society. He has been a community organizer and serves on the boards of several national organi-zations that support neighborhood development.