Health Services 572 • Community Development
for Health • Winter
Quarter 2007
READINGS FOR HSERV 572
Texts: Meredith Minkler's Community Organizing
and Community Building for Health (Second Edition) and
Eric Klinenberg's Heat Wave
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Week 1 (Jan. 4)
Read for Week 2 (Jan 10):
Framework & Models
- Minkler Introduction and Part 1 (Frameworks and Models, Chapters 2, 3 and
4)
- Klinenberg prologue and introduction
- Klinenberg essay, "When Chicago Baked," 9/2/05
- Perez-Pena R. NY's Tally of Heat Deaths Draws Scrutiny. NY Times 8/18/06.
- Lyon L. The Community in Urban Society, chapter 1: The concept of community.
1987.
Read for Week 3 (Jan. 17):
Professional's Role
- Minkler Part II: Professional's Role (Chapters 5, 6 and 7)
- Klinenberg: Chapter 1: Dying Alone
- Geiger, H. Jack. Community-Oriented Primary Care: A Path to Community Development.
AJPH 92:11 (11/02)
Read for Week 4
(Jan. 24): Diverse Groups
- Minkler Part V: Diverse Groups (Chapters 13, 14 and 15)
- Klinenberg: Chapter 2: Race & Place
- McIntosh P. White privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack. Peace &
Freedom. July/August 1989: 10-12.
- Shawki Ahmed. The Fire Last Time: Roots of the civil rights movement. ISR. Jan-Feb 2006. 45-51.
- Recommended: Ture, Kwame & Charles Hamilton, "White Power: The Colonial Situation,"
chapter in the book, Black Power.
- Recommended: Garrow DJ. Bearing the Cross. Morrow & Co., New York. 1986.
Chapter one: The Montgomery Bus Boycott.
- Recommended: Lebowitz, Fran. Fran Lebowitz on Race. Vanity Fair, p. 220-224,
October 1997.
Read
for Week 5 (Jan. 31): Community Assessment
- Hardin, Garrett. The Tragedy of the Commons. 1968.
- Berkes F, Feeny D, McCay BJ, and Acheson JM. The benefits of the commons. 1989.
- Dunham, RB. Nominal Group Technique: A Users’ Guide. University of Wisconsin. Posted to the web at http://instruction.bus.wisc.edu/obdemo/readings/ngt.html.
- Minkler III (Chapters 8, 9): Community Assessment
- Klinenberg: Chapter 3: City Services
Week 6 (Feb. 7):
Issue Selection
- Minkler III (Chapter 10), and Part IV (Chapters 11 & 12)
- Klinenberg: Chapter 4: Public Relations
- Putnam, R. The Prosperous Community; Social Capital and Public Life. The
American Prospect, sp 1993.
- Cottrell, L. The Competent Community. Chapter 11 of Further Explorations
in Social Psychiatry. 1976.
Week
7 (Feb. 14): Tools
- Minkler IX (Chapter 22 & 23) and Part VII (Chapters 18 & 19): Influencing
Policy through Media,and the use of Arts & the Internet
- Klinenberg: Chapter 5: News Organizations
Week 8 (Feb.
21): Empowerment
- Minkler VIII (Chapter 20, 21): Empowerment
- Klinenberg: Conclusion
- Barr, Stringfellow. Note on Dialogue. St. John's College, Annapolis/Santa
Fe, 1968.
Week 9 (Feb. 28):
Coalitions
- Minkler VI (Chapters 16 & 17): Coalitions
- Norden E. interview: Saul Alinsky, a candid conversation with the feisty
radical organizer. Playboy. 1972
Week 10 (March
7): More Tools
- Fisher R, Ury W. Getting to Yes, chapter three: Focus on Interests, Not
Positions. Penguin Books. 1981.
- Kroll BS. Guide to Conducting Focus Group Research. Rainbow Research Inc.
May, 1995.
- Loeb, P. Soul of a Citizen: Living with Conviction in a Cynical Time. Utne
Reader. July-August 1999
- Chong, D. Collective Action and the Civil Rights Movement. Chapter 1, and
p. 107-109.
Optional (Yet Fascinating) Readings
- Putnam, R. Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital. Journal of
Democracy. 6:1, Jan 1995.
- Sarasohn, D. Taking (Back) the Initiative. The Nation. June 18, 2001.
- Galen Institute: http://www.galen.org/news/201/010901.html
- Erenreich, B. The Snarling Citizen. 1995. An Epidemic of Munchausen's Syndrome,
p. 190.
- Goeppinger, J. Community Competence: A Positive approach to Needs Assessment.
American Journal of Community Psychology, 1985.
- Burbank, J. Debunking the Social Security Myth. Seattle P-I, Focus Section.
8/15/99.
- Economic Opportunity Institute fact sheet (two pages). 2002.
- Thomas-Kilman Conflict Mode instrument
- The Predictive Index: Organization Survey Checklist
- Bobo, K. Organizing for Social Change. 1991. Chapters 3-4.
- Open space technology: http://www.facilitators.com/open_space_technology_facilitation.htm
Definition of Social Environment by Eliz Barnett & Michele Casper
- Definition of Social Environment by Eliz Barnett &
Michele Casper
- Coburn, David. Income inequality, social cohesion and the health status
of populations: the role of neo-liberalism. Social Science & medicine
51 (2000).
- Bezruchka, S. Is Our Society Making You Sick? Newsweek magazine. February
26, 2001.
- House, P. In Defense of Grass. Ballard News-Tribune, 11/22/00.
- Rogers, MB. Cold Anger: A Story of Faith and Power Politics. 1990. Chapter
11.
- Besleme K, Mullin M. Community indicators and healthy communities. National
Civic Review. 1997.
- Baker B. Sustainable Community Checklist. NW Policy Center, Graduate School
of Public Affairs. 1996.
- Berry, Wendell. In the Presence of Fear: Three Essays for a Changed World.
Orion 2001. (read essay #2: The Idea of a Local Economy, pages 11-33.)
- Parker, W. The Art of Deliberation. Educational Leadership. 2/97: 18-21.
- Payne, Ruby. Speaking their Language: working with Students and Adults from
Poverty. Infocus.
- Kawachi, Ichiro and Bruce Kennedy. The Health of Nations: Why Inequality
is Harmful to Your Health. The New Press. 2002. Chapters 3 & 5.
- Flower J. Beyond Economics: Healthy Communities and Healthy Economies. National
Civic Review. 1997.
- Hardin, Garrett. The Tragedy of the Commons. 1968.
- Kemmis, D. Community and the Politics of Place. 1990. Chapter 5, p. 44-49,
& chapter 8, p. 109-118.
- Kunstler JH. Auto-Slum Nation. Speech to the 1997 Seaside Property owners
Annual Meeting.
- Satel, Sally. The Indoctrinologists are Coming. Atlantic Monthly magazine,
Jan 2001.
- Minkler M. Improving Health Through Community Organization, Health Behavior
and Health Organization.
- Duhl LJ. Leadership in American Communities. Nat Civic Rev. 1997
- Erenreich, B. The Snarling Citizen. 1995. Maintaining the Crime Supply,
p. 156.
- Tidbits: the UW's Principles of Community-Based Research; Daily Diet of
Tribal Connection quiz; and Starfield, Barbara: Is equity a scientific issue?
- Mechanic, David. Rediscovering the Social Determinants of Health. Health
Affairs May-June, 2000.
- Fawcett SB. Some values guiding community research and action. J Appl Behav
Anal. 1991.
- Israel BA, Checkoway B, Schulz A, Zimmerman M. Health education and community
empowerment: Conceptualizing & measuring perceptions of individual, organizational,
& community control. Health Ed Q. 1994
- Rossi, Peter H. Evaluating Community Development Programs: Problems and
Prospects. Chapter in Urban Problems and Community Development by Ronald F.
Ferguson. 1999.
- Alinsky, S. Rules for Radicals. 1971. Chapter 1: The Purpose.
- Levy, J. Cesar Chavez: Autobiography of La Causa. 1975. Prologue.
- Greider, W. Who Will Tell the People? 1992. Chapter 9.
- Schwarz,
J. "Research shows protests get action on the environment" University
Week, Aug 19, 2004.
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