In and against the state: community-based organisations in Britain and Denmark in the 1990s.

Alcock, Pete; Christensen, Lars Lindberg

doi:10.1093/cdj/30.2.110

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“…Local community organizations (volunteer, nonprofit and non-government) promote health directly (Hawe, 1994) and serve to monitor and critique the state with the goal of improving policies and programs (Alcock & Christensen, 1995;Whaites, 1996) or bringing about fundamental social change (e.g. women's rights) (Maillé & Wängnerud, 1999).…”

Section: Migration and The Health Of Immigrant Womenmentioning

confidence: 99%

An ecological model for understanding culture as a determinant of women's health

Thurston

Vissandjée

2005

Critical Public Health

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In combination with gender and culture, the authors argue that the migratory experience must be considered as a determinant of the health of immigrant women in its own right. Gender and other symbolic institutions are seen as intertwined in an ecological model of health. Bronfenbrenner's (1986) systems theory and a combination of theories of social cognition, social exchange and symbolic interaction articulated by Howard and Hollander (1997) expand the ecological model. Cognitive schemas of gender and culture help explain the process of integration in a new locality over time. Success in addressing the health of immigrant women will be limited if the impact of migration and at the meso-and macro-levels is ignored in favour of a focus on the individual.

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Section: Migration and The Health Of Immigrant Womenmentioning

confidence: 99%

An ecological model for understanding culture as a determinant of women's health

Thurston

Vissandjée

2005

Critical Public Health

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“…Certaines critiques soutiennent toutefois qu'une telle approche tend à occulter les responsabilités sociétales et la nécessité d'instaurer des politiques sociales là où les solutions dépassent les capacités locales, par exemple là où sévit l'extrême pauvreté 31 . A ce propos, l'expérience de l'Angleterre indique que la conjugaison des initiatives venant des individus et des collectivités locales -bottom-up -et des programmes publics -top-downdonne les meilleurs résultats en matière de développement 32 , ce que l'approche dite de changements structurels n'exclut pas. D'une certaine façon, il se peut que quelques-unes des difficultés appréhendées dans l'actuel débat sur l'économie sociale 33 découlent des limites de cette approche, dans la mesure où le contrôle exercé sur l'action et sur ses conséquences appartient à un nombre restreint de personnes intéressées et non pas nécessairement à l'ensemble des personnes concernées.…”

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Le service social et l’appauvrissement : vers une action axée sur le contrôle des ressources

Ninacs

2011

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Les appels pour une intervention sociale qui tiendrait mieux compte de la configuration actuelle de la pauvreté se multiplient tant au Québec qu’ailleurs, car, encore trop souvent, les interventions en service social visent plus l’augmentation des ressources des personnes défavorisées que leur contrôle. Puisque l’idée d’un contrôle sur des ressources renvoie au développement économique, ce texte examine les approches de développement économique sous la loupe de l’empowerment des individus et des collectivités afin de cibler certains enjeux des nouvelles stratégies d’intervention, tels l’accumulation d’actifs par des individus et le développement économique communautaire, en tant qu’option stratégique pour une action renouvelée du service social sur le front de l’appauvrissement.

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“…'development', now assume that the third sector, whether in the form of community organisations, voluntary associations or NGOs, is the main site upon which community development takes place. Yet with some exceptions (see for example, Alcock and Christensen, 1995;Opare, 2007;Bratt and Rohe, 2007;Donelason, 2004;Knottes, 2006), there is little explicit acknowledgement of, or indeed critical reflection upon, the assumption that third sector organisations are the most appropriate settings for community development activities. This paper investigates this assumption.…”

Section: R a F Tmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards unsettling community development

Kenny

2010

Community Development Journal

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Community development was born out of a commitment to practising ways of empowering people to take collective control of their own lives. This empowerment requires profound changes in the ways in which societies are organised, and community development has held out the promise of heroic change. While community development practitioners have been able to secure spaces for community development processes and policies, overall the successes of community development have been uneven and often quite modest. Indeed, the story of community development so far is one of considerable unfinished business. Drawing on two research projects, this paper considers whether third sector organisations, which form the bulk of organisational sites upon which community development take place, generate and nurture types of active citizenship that are appropriate to community development activities. The paper develops a typology of active citizenship and considers manifestations of the types in seven countries. The applicability of the types to community development is dependent upon what form of community development is being considered. The position presented in this paper is that we need more than a settled form of community development based around maintaining and defensive active citizenship. An unsettled and edgy community development is also needed and this requires critical, proactive, visionary and cosmopolitan citizens active citizens who are prepared to challenge existing power relations.

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In and against the state: community-based organisations in Britain and Denmark in the 1990s.

Cited by 6 publications

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An ecological model for understanding culture as a determinant of women's health

An ecological model for understanding culture as a determinant of women's health

Le service social et l’appauvrissement : vers une action axée sur le contrôle des ressources

Towards unsettling community development

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