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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742540839
• ISBN13: 9780742540835
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.3"