Pub Date : 2023-04-28DOI: 10.1080/15575330.2023.2201709
L. Trenton S. Marsh, Amanda Wilkerson, Zoé Colón, Rebecca Entress
This paper examines three university-community partnership (UCP) projects. Two projects were situated within a Southeastern, lower-income Black community, where the university recently developed a campus, to anchor an education ecosystem. The third project was affiliated with a Northeastern university that is seen as an anchor for the community, within its city limits. The projects and participants were examined not to reveal empirical findings. Still, they were used as a lens that guided the authors’ reflections as agents of color working in UCPs. Utilizing critical autoethnographic narratives, we discuss our motivations for social justice-oriented, engaged work. We also illuminate the real opportunities and challenges in fostering UCPs. We further examine how equity was integrated within the projects by using counterexamples of the common discourses of engagement, which we ultimately identified as a necessary resistance to collaborate within communities authentically. We conclude with a framework to center community stakeholders in UCPs.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-25DOI: 10.1080/15575330.2023.2204442
K. Fattah
{"title":"NGOs, CBOs, and the contested politics of community-driven development in urban informal settlements","authors":"K. Fattah","doi":"10.1080/15575330.2023.2204442","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15575330.2023.2204442","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46872,"journal":{"name":"Community Development","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42612589","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-04-23DOI: 10.1080/15575330.2023.2204441
Adrián Saldarriaga Isaza, Pedro Pablo Salas
{"title":"Community perception on the development of rural community-based tourism amid social tensions: A Colombian case","authors":"Adrián Saldarriaga Isaza, Pedro Pablo Salas","doi":"10.1080/15575330.2023.2204441","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15575330.2023.2204441","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46872,"journal":{"name":"Community Development","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44846722","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-04-20DOI: 10.1080/15575330.2023.2202410
Elia Syarafina Abdul Shakur, N. SA’AT, Ihsan Alwi, K. Omar
ABSTRACT Kenyir Geopark development has always been discussed by the State Government and various other agencies to improve the eco-tourism industry at Kenyir Lake. Tourism products and activities have been implemented. The development around Kenyir Lake through multiple agency’s role and policy that is established to disclose how the specialists use aspiration and best practices to achieve sustainable tourism. Conservation and socio-economic approaches are the specific interaction between community and stakeholders, their environments and lead to more viable development outcomes. Data were obtained quantitatively through surveys and qualitatively through interviews combination and document content analysis. The questionnaires were distributed, and 378 people responded. The results indicate that the community knowledge on development is crucial and it requires community cooperation to ensure the success of eco-tourism. Controlling and monitoring from the involved parties are also required. It is hoped that this study will guide the management in achieving its geopark goals.
{"title":"Eco-tourism and sustainable development: Are community ready?","authors":"Elia Syarafina Abdul Shakur, N. SA’AT, Ihsan Alwi, K. Omar","doi":"10.1080/15575330.2023.2202410","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15575330.2023.2202410","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Kenyir Geopark development has always been discussed by the State Government and various other agencies to improve the eco-tourism industry at Kenyir Lake. Tourism products and activities have been implemented. The development around Kenyir Lake through multiple agency’s role and policy that is established to disclose how the specialists use aspiration and best practices to achieve sustainable tourism. Conservation and socio-economic approaches are the specific interaction between community and stakeholders, their environments and lead to more viable development outcomes. Data were obtained quantitatively through surveys and qualitatively through interviews combination and document content analysis. The questionnaires were distributed, and 378 people responded. The results indicate that the community knowledge on development is crucial and it requires community cooperation to ensure the success of eco-tourism. Controlling and monitoring from the involved parties are also required. It is hoped that this study will guide the management in achieving its geopark goals.","PeriodicalId":46872,"journal":{"name":"Community Development","volume":"54 1","pages":"701 - 728"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48840595","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-04-14DOI: 10.1080/15575330.2023.2201708
Jill Brown, N. Kamwanyah, T. Budesheim
{"title":"A stranger has big eyes but sees nothing: How indigenous social welfare systems endure and survive the dark side of international aid","authors":"Jill Brown, N. Kamwanyah, T. Budesheim","doi":"10.1080/15575330.2023.2201708","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15575330.2023.2201708","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46872,"journal":{"name":"Community Development","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44484974","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-09DOI: 10.1080/15575330.2023.2186457
S. Windon, D. Robotham, A. Echols
{"title":"Importance of organizational volunteer retention and communication with volunteers during the COVID-19 pandemic","authors":"S. Windon, D. Robotham, A. Echols","doi":"10.1080/15575330.2023.2186457","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15575330.2023.2186457","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46872,"journal":{"name":"Community Development","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47212552","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-06DOI: 10.1080/15575330.2023.2186455
J. C. Miller, Sondra Collins
{"title":"What is the economic impact of “brain drain” in Mississippi?","authors":"J. C. Miller, Sondra Collins","doi":"10.1080/15575330.2023.2186455","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15575330.2023.2186455","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46872,"journal":{"name":"Community Development","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47595478","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-04DOI: 10.1080/15575330.2022.2091627
N. Curry
ABSTRACT Community development in the UK has moved from private philanthropy in the early 20th Century through welfarism to a ‘marketisation’ in the 21st Century with both state contracts, and market-based performance measures. But neoclassical economics, on which such marketization is based, is an inadequate measure of community development practice as it does not accommodate a range of inequalities, spatial differences, changes over time, market failures and externalities, all of which are at the core of community food projects. Whilst community food projects address market failures, they can use innovative market mechanisms to “cushion” some of these neoclassical economics failings. A number of practical examples is offered, from Lincolnshire UK, of such innovations in relation to community food production, and environmental, food waste, and food poverty externalities.
{"title":"Community development and community food in Lincolnshire, United Kingdom: The limitations of neoclassical economics","authors":"N. Curry","doi":"10.1080/15575330.2022.2091627","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15575330.2022.2091627","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Community development in the UK has moved from private philanthropy in the early 20th Century through welfarism to a ‘marketisation’ in the 21st Century with both state contracts, and market-based performance measures. But neoclassical economics, on which such marketization is based, is an inadequate measure of community development practice as it does not accommodate a range of inequalities, spatial differences, changes over time, market failures and externalities, all of which are at the core of community food projects. Whilst community food projects address market failures, they can use innovative market mechanisms to “cushion” some of these neoclassical economics failings. A number of practical examples is offered, from Lincolnshire UK, of such innovations in relation to community food production, and environmental, food waste, and food poverty externalities.","PeriodicalId":46872,"journal":{"name":"Community Development","volume":"54 1","pages":"257 - 270"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47296434","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-04DOI: 10.1080/15575330.2023.2195695
M. Mars
In this issue of Community Development readers are introduced to eight papers that together present a diverse, yet vivid illustration of the challenges, opportunities, and innovations that characterize development in rural communities. The challenges described throughout the papers largely point to the precarious balance between responding to global economic pressures while retaining clear identities and authentic senses of place. Among the opportunities highlighted in the issue is the promise of placebased enterprises and marketscapes as bridges between rurality and external consumption demands and trends that include, for example, local food and sustainable tourism. Readers, whether community development practitioners or scholars, are likely to find inspiration and guidance from the rural development innovations that emerge from the issue, whether that be a creative approach to overcoming the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic or centering place-based mystique as a tool for community identity work. Below the landscape of the issue is described in greater detail. Using the local food movement in the U.K. as an empirical setting, Curry’s paper contributes a constructive critique of the shortcomings of neoclassical economic philosophies and mechanisms on community development initiatives. In doing so, Curry proposes a set of market mechanisms and social innovations, such as inter-firm collaboration and systemic coordination, that may be useful in maximizing the positive influence of marketization on community development goals and initiatives. Such influence is particularly promising in rural communities and economies that are often confronted with stagnated market conditions and declining populations via urbanization. Currie and colleagues further address the influence of large-scale economic policy conditions, specifically neo-liberalism, on rural community development. They identify the complexities as well as reveal the potential power of including diverse stakeholder groups in initiating and enacting community-centered resiliency planning. Petric and Gibson further underscore these economic-based challenges in their study of community investment fund strategies within rural Canadian regions and the associated reliance on government investments in public awareness campaigns and engagement strategies. Indeed, rural community member engagement in innovative development strategies is a notable challenge. Theodori, Willits, and Fortunato aptly illustrate this reality in their examination of the influence of mystique on rural community attachment and engagement. Their findings reveal the nuance of rural community identity with subjects positively associating mystique with community attachment, community satisfaction, and community decision-making. Yet, they find such association is not statistically associated with community-oriented action. Given recent upticks in cravings for nostalgia, especially via consumption choices, Theodori, et al.’
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