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Remaking participation: challenges for community development practice
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Eversole, R, Remaking participation: challenges for community development practice, Community Development Journal , 47, (1) pp. 29-41. ISSN 1468-2656 (2012) [Refereed Article]
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Abstract
Increasing communities' participation in development processes has been the subject of both policy aspiration and scholarly critique. This paper explores the implications of a critical perspective on the ‘elusive goal’ of participation for community development practitioners. Drawing on insights from a range of scholars, this paper poses a practical challenge to professionals who work with communities: to name and challenge deeply embedded assumptions about expert knowledge and formal institutions, to recognize the role of those who ‘translate’ between community and external organizational spaces, and to integrate community knowledge and community institutions into participatory development processes.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Article |
|---|---|
| Keywords: | community development, community participation |
| Research Division: | Studies in Human Society |
| Research Group: | Anthropology |
| Research Field: | Anthropology not elsewhere classified |
| Objective Division: | Cultural Understanding |
| Objective Group: | Other Cultural Understanding |
| Objective Field: | Cultural Understanding not elsewhere classified |
| Author: | Eversole, R (Professor Robyn Eversole) |
| ID Code: | 64674 |
| Year Published: | 2012 |
| Web of Science® Times Cited: | 48 |
| Deposited By: | Institute for Regional Development |
| Deposited On: | 2010-08-17 |
| Last Modified: | 2013-03-19 |
| Downloads: | 16 View Download Statistics |
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