Going Regional: The Evolution of an Organizing Strategy in Detroit

Rusch, Lara

doi:10.1111/j.1540-6040.2011.01393.x

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“… It is worth noting there are also substantial bodies of work devoted to the roles of residence/neighborhood (Orr, ; Heathcott, ; Rusch, ), disability (e.g. Shapiro, ), and sexual preference diversity (Armstrong, ; Ghaziani and Baldassarri, ) in broader grassroots organizing processes.…”

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Strength in Diversity? Group Heterogeneity in the Mobilization of Grassroots Organizations

Walker

Stepick

2014

Sociology Compass

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Grassroots groups often find that they need to manage issues of diversity along racial/ethnic, class, gender, religious, and/or citizenship lines, among several other axes of difference. There are strong reasons to expect that diversity is a benefit to such groups, especially in terms of coalition breadth and the widely held expectation that internal heterogeneity helps organizations to resolve collective action dilemmas. Nonetheless, a long tradition within sociological research sets out the expectation that group heterogeneity thwarts the formation of collective identities and group solidarity, and therefore limits the potential for effective organizing. With a particular emphasis on groups active in local community‐based organizing since the 1970s, we review studies on a variety of features of group diversity and their effects on mobilizing processes. We find that although researchers remain somewhat divided on these critical issues, the preponderance of evidence suggests that managing diversity poses significant challenges for grassroots organizing efforts. While these challenges may not easily be overcome, we point to a variety of cases in which group differences offered a significant asset to social change efforts.

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Strength in Diversity? Group Heterogeneity in the Mobilization of Grassroots Organizations

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2014

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“…Although deliberative advocates seek diverse participation, forums tend to disproportionately attract middle-class and professional participants. Collaboration with organizing groups could help bring deliberative discussions into 18 For a review of literature on scaling up organizing efforts, see Rusch (2012).…”

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Practices of Engagement: Comparing and Integrating Deliberation and Organizing

Rusch

Swarts

2015

Journal of Community Practice

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The purpose of this article is to provide a comparison of institution-based community organizing and deliberative practices and to demonstrate how these are complementary approaches for civic engagement. In contrast to older typologies describing these two approaches oppositionally, we seek to reveal a shared democratic ethos and propose greater collaboration between action-oriented organizers and deliberative advocates. The article also identifies where deliberative and organizing practices diverge and proposes a model for how the two approaches can be integrated for mutual benefit.

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“…Later research (Farley et al. ) indicated little change: “racial divisions, economic fragmentation, and competition among municipalities” are “often propagated by political leaders seeking to consolidate support” (Rusch , p.53).…”

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“…; Hill ; Sugrue ). Moreover, the new regionalists who hope that inner suburbs will be especially inclined to join with Detroit (Rusch ) face a major barrier: There is already a strong regionalism among such suburbs due to their sense of racial estrangement and competition with Detroit (Indergaard ).…”

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Detroit's Regional Question

Indergaard

2015

City & Community

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Could metro dynamics, which have long eroded Detroit's economy, have changed so drastically that they now might help stabilize it? Advocates of the new regionalism contend that increasing economic interdependence within metro areas has boosted the propensity for metro scale mobilizations to address troubles of city and suburb alike. I use the case of Detroit to examine the nature of metro economic relationships and novel episodes of metro regionalism. I find the continued effect of racial segregation, in combination with other factors, has caused Detroit blacks to be more vulnerable to recent declines in manufacturing and to be less likely to benefit from recent knowledge economy investments. New forms of metro regionalism are unlikely to economically stabilize less advantaged households or municipalities in the Detroit area, but may be creating frameworks that enable more progressive mobilizations by Detroit CBOs.

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Going Regional: The Evolution of an Organizing Strategy in Detroit

Cited by 19 publications

References 19 publications

Strength in Diversity? Group Heterogeneity in the Mobilization of Grassroots Organizations

Strength in Diversity? Group Heterogeneity in the Mobilization of Grassroots Organizations

Practices of Engagement: Comparing and Integrating Deliberation and Organizing

Detroit's Regional Question

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