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Tomorrow's communities : lessons for community-based transformation in the age of global crises /
This book sets out how people's lives can be positively transformed through diverse forms of community involvement. It shows how communities can become more collaborative and resilient in dealing with the problems they face and provides a guide to what a holistic policy agenda for community-bas...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol, UK :
Policy Press,
2021.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover
- Tomorrow's Communities: Lessons for Community- based Transformation in the Age of Global Crises
- Copyright information
- Table of contents
- List of tables and figures
- Notes on contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 The challenges for tomorrow's communities
- Communities under threat
- What can communities do?
- The transformation of socioeconomic relations in communities
- The transformation of collaborative behaviour with communities
- The transformation of policy outcomes by communities
- Lessons for tomorrow's communities
- References
- Part A Transforming socioeconomic relations in communities
- 2 The case for community economic development
- Conclusion
- References
- 3 Reciprocity and alternative mediums of exchange
- A more humane way to measure growth and prosperity
- Conventional economics
- The core economy
- New technologies
- More time for social money
- Changes in the relationship between the state and communities
- Institutions and local action
- Moving away from a monetary model
- Trusting in the common good
- Helping people to help each other
- A framework for new learning in the community
- Lessons learnt on how to facilitate the exchange of support
- Available
- Responsive
- Emotionally present
- Two case studies
- Croydon
- Torbay
- Conclusion
- References
- 4 Regeneration in partnership with communities
- Taking possession of revival
- The regeneration trajectory
- From scattergun to coordination
- Success and dissolution
- Deleting the community: an ill omen
- The shift to health
- The decimation of community infrastructure
- Can community practice handle it?
- The way forward
- References
- 5 Worker co-operatives and economic democracy
- Insecure jobs and weakened communities
- Worker empowerment
- New approach to self-employment
- Technology for co-operation
- Smart and Green Taxis
- WorkerTech
- Workplace democracy and union co-ops
- Community wealth building, union co-ops and co-operative education
- Worker co-ops and economic democracy
- back to the future?
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Part B Transforming collaborative behaviour with communities
- 6 Four factors for better community collaboration
- Impediments to collaboration
- Incompatibility of purpose
- Imbalance of power
- Exclusionary practice
- Weak infrastructure
- Examples of place-based collaboration
- Who gets to set the purpose? Examples
- How is power shared? Examples
- How effective is the involvement? Examples
- Where is the supportive infrastructure? Examples
- What might achieve better collaboration?
- A reframing of purpose
- A shift in power
- Adaptive and inclusive practices
- Connective infrastructure
- Acting urgently and building on the best
- References
- 7 The importance of community-based learning
- Community-based learning and popular education in the current context
- Paulo Freire
- his theoretical roots, and his critics