Rayna Sage, Krys Standley, Lillie Greiman, Genna M Mashinchi, Mary Willard
In the United States, Centers for Independent Living (CILs) staff were at the frontlines of responding to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on rural people with disabilities. Growing out of the Independent Living (IL) Movement , CILs emphasize independence, autonomy, choice, and control for disabled people and do not typically have financial or other resources to give away. To better understand the experiences of CIL staff in using the CARES Act monies and serving rural people with disabilities, researchers at the Rural Institute for Inclusive Communities in collaboration with the Association for Programs in Rural Independent Living (APRIL) used thematic coding to analyze the transcripts of eight national online peer support meetings that were facilitated by APRIL. We found CIL staff described distributing financial assistance to cover essential household needs such as rent, utilities, internet access, and various items. In turn, they also shared that they grappled with conflicts created by the influx of CARES Act funding, which put CIL staff in the position of providing what some described as ‘handouts’ rather than CILs’ usual work of providing consumers with a ‘hand-up’ through training and other non-financial supports. This project highlights a unique challenge CIL staff faced as they attempted to stay true to IL philosophy while concurrently meeting the needs of rural people with disabilities in crisis during the pandemic.
在美国，独立生活中心（CILs）的工作人员站在第一线，应对 COVID-19 对农村残疾人的影响。独立生活中心（CILs）由独立生活运动（IL）发展而来，强调残疾人的独立性、自主性、选择性和控制性，通常不提供资金或其他资源。为了更好地了解 CIL 工作人员在使用 CARES 法案资金和服务农村残疾人方面的经验，农村包容性社区研究所（Rural Institute for Inclusive Communities）的研究人员与农村独立生活项目协会（APRIL）合作，使用主题编码法分析了由 APRIL 主持的八次全国性在线同伴支持会议的记录。我们发现，CIL 的工作人员描述了发放经济援助以满足基本家庭需求的情况，如房租、水电、上网和各种物品。反过来，他们也分享说，他们也在努力解决《加州康复和社会服务法案》（CARES Act）资金大量涌入所造成的冲突，这使得社区生活和学习中心的工作人员不得不提供一些人所说的 "施舍"，而不是社区生活和学习中心通常通过培训和其他非经济支持为消费者提供 "帮助 "的工作。该项目凸显了 CIL 工作人员所面临的独特挑战，他们既要坚持 IL 的理念，又要在大流行病期间满足处于危机中的农村残疾人的需求。
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Community participation is often heralded as a remedy to the disadvantages faced by marginalized people, with the assumption that it catalyses empowerment and social change. However, in development practice, this view may overlook the intricate power dynamics that reinforce marginalization and how they interplay within local communities and with external developers. This paper seeks to examine how power relations in and beyond the local level influence participatory community development initiatives and their potential to challenge or reinforce disadvantage. It focuses on the Rural Support Programmes Network’s much-touted ‘three-tier social mobilization strategy’ in Northwest Pakistan as a qualitative case study, using participant and non-participant observation, document analysis and semi-structured interviews. Findings indicate that active participation by local people in community development processes does not always catalyse empowerment and social change. Without a deliberate reconfiguration of traditional exclusionary power relations, participation in community initiatives may simply perpetuate social exclusion for disadvantaged groups. Existing social structures allow traditionally powerful people to use participatory processes to reproduce and or/further reinforce their power and control via ‘strategic compliance’. The study concludes that community development programmes require a nuanced understanding of power dynamics and a deliberate effort to reconfigure those dynamics to foster meaningful engagement and empowerment of disadvantaged groups.
{"title":"Reproducing poverty through participation: examining the constraints of community development strategies in fostering empowerment and social change","authors":"Shahzad Khan, Robyn Eversole","doi":"10.1093/cdj/bsae045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/cdj/bsae045","url":null,"abstract":"Community participation is often heralded as a remedy to the disadvantages faced by marginalized people, with the assumption that it catalyses empowerment and social change. However, in development practice, this view may overlook the intricate power dynamics that reinforce marginalization and how they interplay within local communities and with external developers. This paper seeks to examine how power relations in and beyond the local level influence participatory community development initiatives and their potential to challenge or reinforce disadvantage. It focuses on the Rural Support Programmes Network’s much-touted ‘three-tier social mobilization strategy’ in Northwest Pakistan as a qualitative case study, using participant and non-participant observation, document analysis and semi-structured interviews. Findings indicate that active participation by local people in community development processes does not always catalyse empowerment and social change. Without a deliberate reconfiguration of traditional exclusionary power relations, participation in community initiatives may simply perpetuate social exclusion for disadvantaged groups. Existing social structures allow traditionally powerful people to use participatory processes to reproduce and or/further reinforce their power and control via ‘strategic compliance’. The study concludes that community development programmes require a nuanced understanding of power dynamics and a deliberate effort to reconfigure those dynamics to foster meaningful engagement and empowerment of disadvantaged groups.","PeriodicalId":47329,"journal":{"name":"Community Development Journal","volume":"105 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142202319","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}
Felipe Agudelo-Hernández, Ana Belén Giraldo-Álvarez, Eduardo Marulanda-López
Mental health holds a crucial position within global public health agendas, particularly in the context of developing and implementing community-based approaches. Despite this, there remains a scarcity of evidence regarding the methodologies and anticipated outcomes associated with community-based rehabilitation (CBR) in low- and middle-income countries. This study aims to address this gap by identifying the barriers and facilitators. Through a qualitative approach involving focus groups conducted within a CBR training programme in Colombia, thematic analysis was employed to discern, analyze, and present patterns within the data. The findings, drawn from the participation of 208 individuals including clinical and administrative mental health professionals, as well as community leaders, underscored recurring themes such as the necessity for alliances across various sectors with a shared mental health goal, the importance of contextual considerations in programme development, the need for increased economic resources allocated to mental health, and the significance of empowering community autonomy. Ultimately, the study highlights the imperative of fostering equitable dialogue between communities and decision-makers to facilitate the effective transition of CBR from theory to implementation.
{"title":"Implementation of community-based rehabilitation in Colombia in mental health: barriers, facilitators, and purposes","authors":"Felipe Agudelo-Hernández, Ana Belén Giraldo-Álvarez, Eduardo Marulanda-López","doi":"10.1093/cdj/bsae041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/cdj/bsae041","url":null,"abstract":"Mental health holds a crucial position within global public health agendas, particularly in the context of developing and implementing community-based approaches. Despite this, there remains a scarcity of evidence regarding the methodologies and anticipated outcomes associated with community-based rehabilitation (CBR) in low- and middle-income countries. This study aims to address this gap by identifying the barriers and facilitators. Through a qualitative approach involving focus groups conducted within a CBR training programme in Colombia, thematic analysis was employed to discern, analyze, and present patterns within the data. The findings, drawn from the participation of 208 individuals including clinical and administrative mental health professionals, as well as community leaders, underscored recurring themes such as the necessity for alliances across various sectors with a shared mental health goal, the importance of contextual considerations in programme development, the need for increased economic resources allocated to mental health, and the significance of empowering community autonomy. Ultimately, the study highlights the imperative of fostering equitable dialogue between communities and decision-makers to facilitate the effective transition of CBR from theory to implementation.","PeriodicalId":47329,"journal":{"name":"Community Development Journal","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141946522","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}
Nsizwazonke E Yende, Petunia B Mahlangu, Andiswa Mkhwanazi
The paper aims to explore the politics of ward committees in enhancing community development through participation. In post-1994 South Africa, ward committees are perceived as one of the key structures that are constitutionally required to be established to enhance community development through democratic participation. These structures are envisioned as playing a critical role in ensuring a contact between local people at the grass-roots level and their local authorities. Despite the conspicuous successes of establishing the ward committees at the municipal level, their effectiveness in executing their constitutional mandate remains an issue. This is because such structures have been ‘caught up’ in ambiguous political contestations at the local level. Hence, these structures are perceived as ‘watchdogs’ and an extension of the dominant party from the ward level to the municipality level. This negatively affects their ability to progressively realize their constitutional mandate. This paper adopts a secondary research approach to explore the politics of ward committees in enhancing community development. Gidden’s theory of structuration is employed as a theoretical lens to interpret the findings. Based on this theory, the paper highlights that ward committees are ineffective in promoting community development through democratic participation because of the environment within which they operate. Thus, the environment where these structures operate is characterized by power dynamics, and intra- and inter-political fighting, which provide a context within which they can operate. The paper concludes by recommending that the government should consider professionalizing ward committees to enhance their effectiveness in the complex environment within which they operate.
{"title":"The politics of ward committees in enhancing community development through democratic participation in the perspective of structuration","authors":"Nsizwazonke E Yende, Petunia B Mahlangu, Andiswa Mkhwanazi","doi":"10.1093/cdj/bsae035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/cdj/bsae035","url":null,"abstract":"The paper aims to explore the politics of ward committees in enhancing community development through participation. In post-1994 South Africa, ward committees are perceived as one of the key structures that are constitutionally required to be established to enhance community development through democratic participation. These structures are envisioned as playing a critical role in ensuring a contact between local people at the grass-roots level and their local authorities. Despite the conspicuous successes of establishing the ward committees at the municipal level, their effectiveness in executing their constitutional mandate remains an issue. This is because such structures have been ‘caught up’ in ambiguous political contestations at the local level. Hence, these structures are perceived as ‘watchdogs’ and an extension of the dominant party from the ward level to the municipality level. This negatively affects their ability to progressively realize their constitutional mandate. This paper adopts a secondary research approach to explore the politics of ward committees in enhancing community development. Gidden’s theory of structuration is employed as a theoretical lens to interpret the findings. Based on this theory, the paper highlights that ward committees are ineffective in promoting community development through democratic participation because of the environment within which they operate. Thus, the environment where these structures operate is characterized by power dynamics, and intra- and inter-political fighting, which provide a context within which they can operate. The paper concludes by recommending that the government should consider professionalizing ward committees to enhance their effectiveness in the complex environment within which they operate.","PeriodicalId":47329,"journal":{"name":"Community Development Journal","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141576801","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}
Nicolina Kirby, Dorota Stasiak, Dirk von Schneidemesser
In recent years, bottom–up civil society initiatives have advanced urban transformation processes in Berlin. Following previous research suggesting that bottom–up participation could have a positive impact on community resilience (CR), we analyse the impact of engagement on Berlin–based civil society initiatives. Whilst a positive effect on resilience can be found, we identify governance processes that would be necessary to enable the full potential of bottom–up participation for CR. Resilience, understood as the capacity of a community to thrive in times of change and uncertainty, is becoming increasingly important for the functioning of (urban) communities; hence, finding ways of strengthening it is deemed necessary.
{"title":"Community resilience through bottom–up participation: when civil society drives urban transformation processes","authors":"Nicolina Kirby, Dorota Stasiak, Dirk von Schneidemesser","doi":"10.1093/cdj/bsae031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/cdj/bsae031","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, bottom–up civil society initiatives have advanced urban transformation processes in Berlin. Following previous research suggesting that bottom–up participation could have a positive impact on community resilience (CR), we analyse the impact of engagement on Berlin–based civil society initiatives. Whilst a positive effect on resilience can be found, we identify governance processes that would be necessary to enable the full potential of bottom–up participation for CR. Resilience, understood as the capacity of a community to thrive in times of change and uncertainty, is becoming increasingly important for the functioning of (urban) communities; hence, finding ways of strengthening it is deemed necessary.","PeriodicalId":47329,"journal":{"name":"Community Development Journal","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141502389","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}
Geoff Higgins, Olav Muurlink, Lisa Caffery, Wallace Taylor
The selection of a community development approach often occurs in an information vacuum, rather than through an evidence-driven alignment with local needs. This study seeks to provide a guide to communities and community development practitioners choosing an approach that is relevant and implementable. The guidance results from a conceptual review of sources describing thirty-three distinct approaches to community development, drawing on an exhaustive scholarly and grey literature search. Five common components (factors relevant when choosing or implementing a community development approach) were identified in the thirty-three community development approaches. From these, three components are especially relevant to communities and community development practitioners: principles that underpin the work; conditions to be met to proceed or succeed; and processes that describe ‘how to’ do the work. The analysis reveals that one approach, Systems Practice, combines all three components, and suggests that more research is required into the relative merit of each component, and to see whether communities are, in practice, combining and hybridizing approaches. The results are presented as a taxonomy to offer broad guidance to community development practitioners, scholars, and policy writers seeking to distinguish between the multiplicity of approaches.
{"title":"Implementability: a taxonomy of community development approaches","authors":"Geoff Higgins, Olav Muurlink, Lisa Caffery, Wallace Taylor","doi":"10.1093/cdj/bsae032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/cdj/bsae032","url":null,"abstract":"The selection of a community development approach often occurs in an information vacuum, rather than through an evidence-driven alignment with local needs. This study seeks to provide a guide to communities and community development practitioners choosing an approach that is relevant and implementable. The guidance results from a conceptual review of sources describing thirty-three distinct approaches to community development, drawing on an exhaustive scholarly and grey literature search. Five common components (factors relevant when choosing or implementing a community development approach) were identified in the thirty-three community development approaches. From these, three components are especially relevant to communities and community development practitioners: principles that underpin the work; conditions to be met to proceed or succeed; and processes that describe ‘how to’ do the work. The analysis reveals that one approach, Systems Practice, combines all three components, and suggests that more research is required into the relative merit of each component, and to see whether communities are, in practice, combining and hybridizing approaches. The results are presented as a taxonomy to offer broad guidance to community development practitioners, scholars, and policy writers seeking to distinguish between the multiplicity of approaches.","PeriodicalId":47329,"journal":{"name":"Community Development Journal","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141502390","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}
In the 1980s, feminist activism to challenge gender-based violence in the United States took a turn from radical grassroots formations towards institutions increasingly reliant on law enforcement. The embrace of policing as the guarantor of the safety of women and children became not only emblematic of US gender justice but also has been exported globally as a progressive form of anti-violence intervention. Since the turn of the millennium, a counter movement in the United States led primarily by feminists of colour has condemned what is now known as carceral feminism and promoted community-based, non-carceral responses to gender-based violence. Prison abolition as a framework for liberation and transformative justice and as a pathway to community safety, free from the violence of the state, has increasingly occupied the public imagination and emphasized new possibilities for community practice. Through the examination of the tensions within the US feminist anti-violence movement, this conceptual article reflects on the development of the carceral state, the emergence of abolition, and the implications for community organizing and community development.
{"title":"Abolition and the renewal of community: from carceral feminism to collective self-determination","authors":"Mimi E Kim","doi":"10.1093/cdj/bsae029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/cdj/bsae029","url":null,"abstract":"In the 1980s, feminist activism to challenge gender-based violence in the United States took a turn from radical grassroots formations towards institutions increasingly reliant on law enforcement. The embrace of policing as the guarantor of the safety of women and children became not only emblematic of US gender justice but also has been exported globally as a progressive form of anti-violence intervention. Since the turn of the millennium, a counter movement in the United States led primarily by feminists of colour has condemned what is now known as carceral feminism and promoted community-based, non-carceral responses to gender-based violence. Prison abolition as a framework for liberation and transformative justice and as a pathway to community safety, free from the violence of the state, has increasingly occupied the public imagination and emphasized new possibilities for community practice. Through the examination of the tensions within the US feminist anti-violence movement, this conceptual article reflects on the development of the carceral state, the emergence of abolition, and the implications for community organizing and community development.","PeriodicalId":47329,"journal":{"name":"Community Development Journal","volume":"80 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141502391","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}
Punishment is not only meted out in custodial institutions. It is also inflicted on ‘free’ individuals who experience harsh material conditions, violent institutional control or punitive responses to their political views and actions. This paper addresses punishment beyond the prison walls, where a variety of counter-hegemonic identities are moulded and where radical approaches to punishment are gestated. The argument is made that the abolitionist movement may find among those identities a range of potential allies for its campaigns. Key allies may also be found among community development activists and programmes.
{"title":"Punishment, communities and assemblages","authors":"Vincenzo Ruggiero","doi":"10.1093/cdj/bsae002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/cdj/bsae002","url":null,"abstract":"Punishment is not only meted out in custodial institutions. It is also inflicted on ‘free’ individuals who experience harsh material conditions, violent institutional control or punitive responses to their political views and actions. This paper addresses punishment beyond the prison walls, where a variety of counter-hegemonic identities are moulded and where radical approaches to punishment are gestated. The argument is made that the abolitionist movement may find among those identities a range of potential allies for its campaigns. Key allies may also be found among community development activists and programmes.","PeriodicalId":47329,"journal":{"name":"Community Development Journal","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141167381","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}
Lee Martinez, Kasia Granek-Dennis, Richard Parker, Judy Taylor
An arts-based project, using a community development approach engaging people in a community of place to address suicide prevention, is potentially powerful. This involves linking community development and mental health promotion practice. The challenge in doing this is that, conceptually, the integration between the two is incomplete and there is a lack of guidance about effective community processes. This paper analyses community development processes to create the World’s Biggest Comic (WBC). The WBC was an innovative, large scale public art project engaging local artists, some with a lived experience of mental illness, to tell a story of Will and Hope. A 15-part comic story, printed on vinyl canvas panels and mounted on buildings, covered 600 m2. https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=217471332673743 Conducted in a small rural South Australian community by the local volunteer Suicide Prevention Network, the WBC aimed to raise awareness, break down stigma, and prompt life-saving conversations. Results of a mixed method impact evaluation are presented using a community development framework that considers ‘people’, ‘space’, and ‘place’. The use of sociological concepts about community and the community field, the value of relationships, and listening to the voices of those with a lived experience of mental illness, may assist practice. Some potential learnings and pitfalls in using a community development approach in mental health promotion are discussed.
{"title":"Wearing their heart on a wall: the World’s Biggest Comic","authors":"Lee Martinez, Kasia Granek-Dennis, Richard Parker, Judy Taylor","doi":"10.1093/cdj/bsae019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/cdj/bsae019","url":null,"abstract":"An arts-based project, using a community development approach engaging people in a community of place to address suicide prevention, is potentially powerful. This involves linking community development and mental health promotion practice. The challenge in doing this is that, conceptually, the integration between the two is incomplete and there is a lack of guidance about effective community processes. This paper analyses community development processes to create the World’s Biggest Comic (WBC). The WBC was an innovative, large scale public art project engaging local artists, some with a lived experience of mental illness, to tell a story of Will and Hope. A 15-part comic story, printed on vinyl canvas panels and mounted on buildings, covered 600 m2. https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=217471332673743 Conducted in a small rural South Australian community by the local volunteer Suicide Prevention Network, the WBC aimed to raise awareness, break down stigma, and prompt life-saving conversations. Results of a mixed method impact evaluation are presented using a community development framework that considers ‘people’, ‘space’, and ‘place’. The use of sociological concepts about community and the community field, the value of relationships, and listening to the voices of those with a lived experience of mental illness, may assist practice. Some potential learnings and pitfalls in using a community development approach in mental health promotion are discussed.","PeriodicalId":47329,"journal":{"name":"Community Development Journal","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140835176","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}
This article reflects on contestations that mark queer and trans community building in post- National Legal Services Authority (NALSA) and post-377 India. In the past decade, queer and trans communities in India have witnessed two landmark judgements: the NALSA v. Union of India judgement 2014 and the Navtej Singh Johar and Ors. v. Union of India judgement 2018. The former granted transgender persons legal recognition and a promise of civil and substantive rights. The latter read down the draconian Sec. 377 of the Indian Penal Code that criminalized consensual adult homosexual sex acts. In light of these two judgements, this article traces challenges faced by queer and trans communities and challenges to queer and trans community building in contemporary India by tracing recent developments in the contexts of health, public policy, jurisprudence, social institutions, education, popular culture, and the precarity of gender and sexually transgressive communities during the recent COVID-19 pandemic. Finally, the authors also trace narratives of hope that demonstrate how queer and trans people in post legal reform India continue to build enabling and affirmative communities in the face of an increasingly neoliberalizing country.
{"title":"Queer and trans community building in post-NALSA and post-377 India: a critical reflection","authors":"Pushpesh Kumar, Sayantan Datta, Neha Mishra","doi":"10.1093/cdj/bsae010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/cdj/bsae010","url":null,"abstract":"This article reflects on contestations that mark queer and trans community building in post- National Legal Services Authority (NALSA) and post-377 India. In the past decade, queer and trans communities in India have witnessed two landmark judgements: the NALSA v. Union of India judgement 2014 and the Navtej Singh Johar and Ors. v. Union of India judgement 2018. The former granted transgender persons legal recognition and a promise of civil and substantive rights. The latter read down the draconian Sec. 377 of the Indian Penal Code that criminalized consensual adult homosexual sex acts. In light of these two judgements, this article traces challenges faced by queer and trans communities and challenges to queer and trans community building in contemporary India by tracing recent developments in the contexts of health, public policy, jurisprudence, social institutions, education, popular culture, and the precarity of gender and sexually transgressive communities during the recent COVID-19 pandemic. Finally, the authors also trace narratives of hope that demonstrate how queer and trans people in post legal reform India continue to build enabling and affirmative communities in the face of an increasingly neoliberalizing country.","PeriodicalId":47329,"journal":{"name":"Community Development Journal","volume":"51 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140597448","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}
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