{"title":"The power to act: dissecting distinctive elements of power and ownership in community organizing in England and Wales","authors":"J. Wood","doi":"10.1093/cdj/bsad023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/cdj/bsad023","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This paper considers the continuing evolution in England and Wales of the Alinsky tradition of broad-based community organizing, a process that seeks to build permanent and powerful alliances of local civil society institutions. The paper introduces some of the tenets of the Alinsky model of broad-based organizing and how this has been adapted to the UK context. Drawing on a leading charity that has pioneered this work, Citizens UK, the paper identifies five distinctive enablers of power and ownership found in community organizing: leadership, relationships, money, democratic behaviours, and actions. Taken together, broad-based community organizing offers an interesting alternative proposition for building community power and is a model that requires further academic, policy, and practitioner attention in the field of community development.","PeriodicalId":47329,"journal":{"name":"Community Development Journal","volume":"192 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79642641","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Public art and social media: street art tourism, sociocultural agency and cultural production in contemporary Lisbon","authors":"Carlos Garrido Castellano, Otávio Raposo","doi":"10.1093/cdj/bsad018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/cdj/bsad018","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This essay engages with Guias do Mocho [Mocho’s Tourist Guides], a bottom-up cultural tourism initiative emerging in Quinta do Mocho, a ‘peripheral’ neighbourhood of Lisbon, as a way of problematizing the relationship between public and street art and social media aesthetics. Scholarship on digital creative industries and street art tourism tends to emphasize the complicities of this kind of cultural experience with neoliberal understandings of the urban space. By examining an example of bottom-up, localized guided tours that operates through social media in the context of peripheral areas of Lisbon, we argue that public art and social media should be seen as part of a more complicated correlation, one in which the affects and effects of creative, site-specific projects are actively developed and expanded in unforeseen ways. Our research demonstrates that public art and social media are mutually developing a renewed economy of attention and system of valorization. The critical examination of both elements is compulsory when measuring the impact of art-driven processes of community development.","PeriodicalId":47329,"journal":{"name":"Community Development Journal","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84260057","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Listening and learning for public engagement with research","authors":"R. Watson","doi":"10.1093/cdj/bsad021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/cdj/bsad021","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 What is the possibility of community radio operating as a public engagement platform for the dissemination of publicly funded and socially relevant research? Are there ways that community development techniques, along with community-focussed communication methodologies, can be used to support inclusive and sustainable forms of public engagement for research, that go beyond goal-oriented and transactional forms of corporate and industrial mass media? The assertion here is that with the pressing demands of collective social transformation associated with the Great Disruption, there is an urgent need to revitalize the community development mindset of public engagement with—and using—established and emergent forms of media. This renewed mindset offers an extended approach to community-oriented communication that goes beyond the prevailing and standard forms of news reporting, marketing, public relations and mass media information distribution. In other words, the forms of media engagement that typically characterize much of the commercial and institutional communication practices. Instead, and as explored here, there is a need to foster an alternative communications mindset that embeds participative, mutual and developmental expectations of care, stewardship and social justice as foundational principles of communication and media for public engagement for social and academic research.","PeriodicalId":47329,"journal":{"name":"Community Development Journal","volume":"52 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80374065","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Who’s at the table: an exploration of community-based food security initiatives and structures in a north-central Canadian context","authors":"T. Healy, Christine Callihoo, A. Booth","doi":"10.1093/cdj/bsad013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/cdj/bsad013","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article examines food security initiatives and actors specific to a rural, remote and northern Canadian community, a context found throughout the world. Using a ‘snowball technique’ to identify experts and practitioners in local food security, we employed qualitative engagement methods to map initiatives, actors and gaps in regional food security. We identified concerns around the ability of the region to be food secure; we also found a lack of cross-sector communication and planning, challenges with a small group of committed actors facing isolation and burnout and a need to more broadly engage the community and political entities with limited awareness of rural and remote cultures and concerns. Facilitating better collaborations across multiple food security-related activities while honouring current and supporting current initiatives could enable those who know their communities, to address food insecurity collectively and collaboratively in a rural, remote and northern context.","PeriodicalId":47329,"journal":{"name":"Community Development Journal","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84930583","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What does community do? Reconsidering community action on the Toronto Islands using assemblage theory","authors":"Lindsay Stephens","doi":"10.1093/cdj/bsad014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/cdj/bsad014","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This paper uses assemblage theory to consider the work that community does in a residential neighborhood in Toronto, Canada. It utilizes assemblage theory and connections between assemblage, affect, and emotion to advance an understanding of how community shapes capacity and action. The analysis shows how community has been enacted on the Islands, what actions and tendencies this assemblage makes possible or likely, and what it constrains. It also contributes to understanding what assemblage analysis can do. The mechanisms by which desire is channeled toward certain kinds of actions in the assemblage include the performance of community for self-preservation, the use of history and memory in the making of the community assemblage, and the role of territoriality, identity, and belonging in community-preserving actions. The analysis also reveals processes of stasis through reification of the assemblage and its interdependence with other processes like racial capitalism. Finally, I propose possibilities for shifting the assemblage, including telling different histories, and greeting emotional intensity experimentally. Seeing community through the lens of assemblage enables us to ask different questions, which may help us build the communities we need for a more just future.","PeriodicalId":47329,"journal":{"name":"Community Development Journal","volume":"42 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86838156","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Academia on the edge","authors":"R. Pearce, Kirsty Lohman","doi":"10.1093/cdj/bsad012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/cdj/bsad012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47329,"journal":{"name":"Community Development Journal","volume":"41 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85957768","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"EDUKASI TEKNOLOGI PENGAWETAN PENGGUNAAN BTP DAN PENGEMASAN PANGAN UNTUK MEMPERPANJANG MASA SIMPAN PRODUK OLAHAN PANGAN DI UMKM PAYAKUMBUH","authors":"Nugraha Edhi Suyatama, Dwi Yuni Hastati","doi":"10.31004/cdj.v4i2.14839","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31004/cdj.v4i2.14839","url":null,"abstract":"Usaha Mikro, Kecil, Menengah (UMKM) produk olahan pangan yang menjadi oleh-oleh khas daerah dituntut untuk memiliki daya saing tinggi. Peningkatan nilai jual dan daya saing dapat dilakukan melalui perbaikan kemasan dan label produk serta peningkatan umur simpan dengan tetap menjaga mutu dan keamanan pangan. Akan tetapi, pada umumnya UMKM hanya lebih fokus pada harga dan cita rasa produk serta sering mengabaikan faktor keamanan pangan. Untuk itu, kegiatan Pengabdian kepada Masyarakat (PkM) ini bertujuan untuk memberikan pemahaman dan pengetahuan kepada pelaku UMKM di Kota Payakumbuh, Sumatera Barat tentang pentingnya. Pelaksanaan pengabdian dilakukan dengan metode demontrasi dan penyuluhan dengan memberikan materi tentang: (1) jenis dan karakteristik bahan pangan, penurunan mutu dan faktor-faktor yang menjadi penyebab kerusakannya, (2) pengawetan produk pangan dan penggunaan bahan tambahan pangan (BTP) yang tepat sesuai persyaratan keamanan pangan produk pangan olahan UMKM, dan (3) teknik pengemasan dan pelabelan pangan. Dalam penyuluhan ini, peserta diajarkan juga cara menghitung penggunaan BTP sesuai peraturan Badan Pengawas Obat dan Makanan (BPOM). Luaran hasil kegiatan pengabdian ini berupa peningkatan pemahaman dan pengetahuan peserta yang terlihat adanya peningkatan rata-rata nilai pre-test dan post-test peserta. Peningkatan pemahaman ini diharapkan akan meningkatkan kemampuan pelaku UMKM di Kota Payakumbuh dalam menghasilkan produk makanan dan minuman oleh-oleh khas payakumbuh yang bernilai jual tinggi dan dapat menjadi produk unggulan di kota Payakumbuh.","PeriodicalId":47329,"journal":{"name":"Community Development Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135420940","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tourism, social networks, and community development: a case study of a coastal Vietnamese village","authors":"Thu Dinh, Edo Andriesse, Jamie Gillen","doi":"10.1093/cdj/bsad011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/cdj/bsad011","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article examines how tourism becomes integrated into rural communities and how an isolated Vietnamese community explores and creates employment opportunities through social networks. The empirical investigation is based on a case study of local involvement in tourism employment in Viet Hai, a remote coastal commune. The results of forty in-depth, semi-structured interviews reveal that the involvement of locals in tourism employment is closely associated with the density of individual social networks. Particularly, villagers with dense networks with external tourism operators and stronger kinship relations are more likely to have better access and resources to participate in tourism employment. Our empirical findings also demonstrate that the popularity of social media in remote areas could bring more opportunities to establish and strengthen external relationships and generate more resources for tourism development. Interviews with local people also unveil that tourism can intensify the income gaps among villagers, causing increasing intra-village disparities in living standards. Based on these results, local governments should be more active in connecting local villagers and tour operators. Future research and policy work in tourism and community development would benefit from a more explicit focus on the relationships between social networks and new forms of inequality, kinship ties, agritourism, and more sustainable trajectories of local development.","PeriodicalId":47329,"journal":{"name":"Community Development Journal","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135050737","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Understanding change in traditional sustainable livelihoods: a complex socio-ecological system in an indigenous community in Mexico","authors":"Carla Galán-Guevara","doi":"10.1093/cdj/bsad010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/cdj/bsad010","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This research documents how a transition to a more monetized, trade-based economy modifies the socio-ecological livelihoods system of the indigenous community of Santa Fe de la Laguna, in Mexico. The research found that there had been changes in community livelihoods, from traditional activities (agriculture, forestry, and fishing) to an economy based on handicraft production (pottery) and its trade. Through the modelling of the structure, dynamics, and change processes of the system, two key repercussions are identified: first, pottery production has intensified the extraction of soil and firewood, and second, the increase in trade and the abandonment of traditional activities are diminishing people’s links with nature, which is having an impact on their links with community sociocultural and institutional systems. The paper argues that the most important economic practices and related knowledge of the community may become unviable in the face of livelihood transformations that are responding to the global monetized economy.","PeriodicalId":47329,"journal":{"name":"Community Development Journal","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82683391","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
N. Nodin, Catherine Pestano, E. Peel, I. Rivers, Allan Tyler
{"title":"Risk and resilience: exploring the potential of LGBTQ third sector and academic partnership","authors":"N. Nodin, Catherine Pestano, E. Peel, I. Rivers, Allan Tyler","doi":"10.1093/cdj/bsad008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/cdj/bsad008","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The Risk and Resilience Explored [RaRE] Project (2010–2016) was a collaborative process involving a third sector agency, university partners and volunteers to better understand the risk and resilience factors associated with specific mental health issues among lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer (LGBTQ) people. In this article, we discuss the project’s collaborative ethos, based on a Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) approach. We explain how the CBPR approach benefitted from including academic partners from the onset of the project, as well as from the direct and indirect engagement of community volunteers. We then explore some of our experience of third sector and academic partner collaboration in more depth, highlighting topic summaries salient to this partnership: support and continuity, upskilling of staff and volunteers for mutual benefit, accessible communication across sectors, and aligning priorities. We conclude by setting out recommendations based on our experience for those interested in developing similarly collaborative projects.","PeriodicalId":47329,"journal":{"name":"Community Development Journal","volume":"160 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75060292","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}