Community Development and Democratic Practice

ISBN-13: 9780367231187 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 122 str.

Paul LaChapelle; Michael Rios

Opis

This book contains writing at the forefront of thinking about the intersections of power, participation, and engagement in the realm of community practice, serving as a heuristic framework for ‘democratic community development’. It was originally published as a special issue of the journal Community Development.

Spis treści

Introduction: Community development and democratic practice: pas de deux or distinct and different? Michael Rios and Paul Lachapelle  1. Metis, craft, civic mindedness: essential attributes of democratic citizenship in communities David Campbell  2. The essential and inherent democratic capacities of communities Patrick L. Scully and Alice Diebel  3. Democratizing democracy as community development: insights from popular education in Latin America F. David Bronkema and Cornelia Butler Flora  4. Solidarity economy and community development: emerging cases in three Massachusetts cities Penn Loh and Boone Shear  5. The civics of community development: participatory budgeting in Chicago Rachel Weber, Thea Crum and Eduardo Salinas  6. Towards a robust democracy: the core competencies critical to community developers John Gruidl and Ronald Hustedde  7. Strange bedfellows: community development, democracy, and magic Esther Farmer