Contesting community development: grounding definitions in practice contexts

Carlon, Colleen

doi:10.1080/09614524.2020.1837078

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“…As such, the liminal space of front porches invites consideration of what is, what can be, and what ought to be. Neighbours join one another on front porches, breathe life into values and weave together the social fabric of their shared humanity (Carlon 2021). In a practical sense, our facilitated conversation series aims to empower neighbours as they recognise and consider their shared experience, and possibly advance social change.…”

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Front porch conversations: Methodological innovations to participatory action research and asset-based community development

Brewer,

Kliewer

2023

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Complex public problems are resistant to top-down, technical solutions creating the need for new and innovative ways of approaching community. In response, many practitioners working in community development organisations have embraced community strengths- or asset-based approaches to community development, including Asset Based Community Development (ABCD). Similarly, those scholars committed to social change have started to include action research/learning and participatory approaches to their research design, including Participatory Action Research (PAR). This article describes a qualitative method that was developed by a non-profit practitioner working for a local Habitat for Humanity affiliate and a researcher from a land-grant university in Manhattan, Kansas to operationalise a neighbourhood revitalisation framework with a community conversation series called Front Porch Conversations. The qualitative method developed by the university-nonprofit partnership –called the Front Porch Development Procedure – serves as both a PAR-informed mode of inquiry and an ABCD-informed mode of development. This method provides an example of how university-community partnerships can approach changemaking in novel ways by considering ABCD and PAR approaches.

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confidence: 99%