Sustainable Community Development

Gamble, Dorothy N.; Hoff, Marie D.

doi:10.4135/9781412976640.n9

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“…The same is true in community organizing in which individuals work to come to a shared understanding of an issue, working collectively to bring about positive change [29]. Meanwhile, CBPR and community organizing share a values-base and key tenets such as empowerment, critical consciousness and capacity building, having both evolved from Paulo Freire’s ideas on liberation theology and popular education [30,31]. …”

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Participatory Democracy, Community Organizing and the Community Assessment of Freeway Exposure and Health (CAFEH) Partnership

Martínez

Reisner

Campbell

et al. 2017

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Background: Conflicting interests, power imbalance and relationships characterized by distrust are just a few of the many challenges community–academic research partnerships face. In addition, the time it takes to build relationships is often overlooked, which further complicates matters and can leave well-intentioned individuals re-creating oppressive conditions through inauthentic partnerships. This paper presents a novel approach of using meeting minutes to explore partnership dynamics. The Community Assessment of Freeway Exposure and Health (CAFEH) partnership is used as an illustrative case study to identify how community academic partnerships overcome the challenges associated with community-based participatory research (CBPR). CAFEH is a study of ultrafine particle exposure (UFP) near highways in the Boston, MA area. Methods: Qualitative analysis was applied to meeting minutes and process evaluation reports from the first three years of the CAFEH study (n = 73 files). In addition, a group meeting was held with project partners in order to contextualize the findings from the document analysis. Results: The three most commonly referenced challenges included language barriers, the overall project structure and budgetary constraints. Meanwhile, a heavy emphasis on process and an approach steeped in participatory democracy facilitated CAFEH’s ability to overcome these challenges, as well as sustain and augment strong partnership ties. Conclusions: This experience suggests that leadership that incorporates an organizing approach and a transformational style facilitates CBPR processes and helps teams surmount challenges.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Participatory Democracy, Community Organizing and the Community Assessment of Freeway Exposure and Health (CAFEH) Partnership

Martínez

Reisner

Campbell

et al. 2017

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“…Kennedy, for example, provides a historical, technical, philosophical and political rationale for social work's engagement with environmental issues. Her exploration is reminiscent of Estes’ () description of strategies for sustainable development, expanded by Gamble and Hoff (), that call for individual and group empowerment, conflict resolution, and community, institutional, national, regional and global building. Jones provides a provocative discussion on ecosocial justice for those wanting to incorporate environmental issues in the social work curriculum, including material on ‘ecology (i.e., recognition of the interconnected nature of all living and non‐living elements) and society, and which sees human wellbeing as inherently and inextricably linked to a healthy and sustainable natural environment’ (p. 559).…”

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