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'Participation—with what money and whose time?' An intersectional feminist analysis of community participation.
- Source :
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Community Development Journal . Jul2023, Vol. 58 Issue 3, p453-471. 19p. - Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- The paper presents the results of community-based participatory action research that evaluated the quality and extent of resident participation in community development projects initiated by a network of non-profit and public agencies in a lower-income, racialized neighbourhood in Toronto. The paper examines dynamics of community engagement and volunteer participation in relation to the socio-political context of neoliberal urban development within which they unfold. Against this backdrop, the paper discusses processes of normalization and the mainstreaming of a technocratic or instrumental approach to community engagement. The paper argues how this instrumental approach extracts volunteer participation from residents to meet short-term organizational targets while offering no genuine opportunity for residents to co-create long-term, meaningful solutions to community needs and priorities. Such short-term, 'band-aid' community engagement and capacity building projects contribute to a crisis of trust between residents and the non-profit agencies. The paper presents a community engagement continuum mapping indicators for technocratic and extractivist community engagement in contrast to indicators for transformative and empowering processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00103802
- Volume :
- 58
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Community Development Journal
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 171854195
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1093/cdj/bsac025