{"title":"Community empowerment in vogue or vain?","authors":"Bob Austen Colenutt Cutten","doi":"10.1080/02690949408726238","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Community is in vogue. But what does it mean and what could it mean, particularly for the residents of inner city areas and peripheral estates faced with poverty and deprivation and cut off from mainstream economic opportunities? This paper examines the concept of community drawing upon work recently undertaken on community involvement in City Challenge (Docklands Consultative Committee and Barrow Cadbury Trust, 1994). We ask the question, has urban policy really engaged with urban communities, and if not, how could it do so? Urban policy has zigzagged from one set of initiatives to another. Whilst policy has been moulded over time to reflect differing government ideologies seeking to account for the root of the urban malaise, essentially many of Britain's inner cities are still facing the same deep-seated socio-economic problems, identified in the government's 1977 White Paper, A Policy for the Inner Cities. Community involvement in these initiatives has had a chequered history. First, it was a starting point for tackling deprivation in the Urban Priority Areas, and then incorporated into the Community Development Projects of the early 1970s. In the 1980s urban communities reverted to a role as spectators to property-led regeneration. In the 1990s, the word \"community\" is being extensively employed in the urban debate.","PeriodicalId":47006,"journal":{"name":"Local Economy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8000,"publicationDate":"1994-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02690949408726238","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Local Economy","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02690949408726238","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"ECONOMICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Community is in vogue. But what does it mean and what could it mean, particularly for the residents of inner city areas and peripheral estates faced with poverty and deprivation and cut off from mainstream economic opportunities? This paper examines the concept of community drawing upon work recently undertaken on community involvement in City Challenge (Docklands Consultative Committee and Barrow Cadbury Trust, 1994). We ask the question, has urban policy really engaged with urban communities, and if not, how could it do so? Urban policy has zigzagged from one set of initiatives to another. Whilst policy has been moulded over time to reflect differing government ideologies seeking to account for the root of the urban malaise, essentially many of Britain's inner cities are still facing the same deep-seated socio-economic problems, identified in the government's 1977 White Paper, A Policy for the Inner Cities. Community involvement in these initiatives has had a chequered history. First, it was a starting point for tackling deprivation in the Urban Priority Areas, and then incorporated into the Community Development Projects of the early 1970s. In the 1980s urban communities reverted to a role as spectators to property-led regeneration. In the 1990s, the word "community" is being extensively employed in the urban debate.
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Local Economy is a peer-reviewed journal operating as an interdisciplinary forum for the critical review of policy developments in the broad area of local economic development and urban regeneration. It seeks not only to publish analysis and critique but also to disseminate innovative practice. One particular concern is with grassroots community economic development strategies and the work of voluntary organisations, considered within the context of wider social, political and economic change.