Conceptualizing community development in the twenty-first century

Lietuvos bendruomenių centrų veikla vietos bendruomenėse. kiekybinio tyrimo apžvalga

“…Tik svarbu akcentuoti, kad tokie suvaržymai šiuolaikinės bendruomenės sampratos kontekste yra daliniai, kartais net simboliniai ir pasirinktiniai (Valantiejus, 2003). Kintant bendruomenei, Vakarų šalių mokslininkai linksta bendruomenės sąvoką keisti socialinio kapitalo terminu, taip akcentuodami bendruomenės modernėjimą, siekį atitikti laikmetį, jo iššūkius ir reikalavimus (Gilchrist, 2009), turint tikslą akumuliuoti bendruomenės narių gebėjimus kolektyvinei veiklai (Hanifan, 1916), kuri kartu skatina ir technologinę, organizacinę bei aplinkos kaitą (Matarrita-Cascantea, Brennan, 2012). Būtent sąveika ir jos dėka sukuriami socialiniai ryšiai lemia, kad bendruomenė gali išlikti ir funkcionuoti.…”

Amenity/Lifestyle Migration in the Chilean Andes: Understanding the Views of “The Other” and Its Effects on Integrated Community Development

“…A line of research within the amenity/lifestyle migration has focused on this issue from a community development perspective, understood here as a process that is locally conceived and implemented in which resources are mobilized seeking the improvement of local living conditions [46]. This literature has acknowledged the existence of a population within migrants and locals that actively participates in local development efforts of amenity communities [9,10,30,35,47].…”

Community Development and Social Development

“…In very broad terms, conceptualizations of community are informed by human ecology, systems theory, and field theory that direct attention to structure, function, and interaction, respectively (Matarrita-Cascante & Brennan, 2012). On this basis, Matarrita-Cascante and Brennan (2012) define community as including, ''a locality comprised by people residing in a geographic area; the resources such people require to subsist and progress; and the processes in which such individuals engage to distribute and exchange such resources to fulfill local needs and wants'' (p. 295, emphasis in original).…”

“…Community development is pluralistic, an attribute that is both a strength and weakness (Green & Haines, 2011;Matarrita-Cascante & Brennan, 2012). Most of the authors seeking to better conceptualize community development problematize both community and community development (see, e.g., Bhattacharyya, 2004;Bradshaw, 2008;MatarritaCascante & Brennan, 2012).…”