Community Development

The Power of Feminist Rituals by Grace Kao

by Feminism and Religion

Originally posted on the Feminism and Religion project

March 31, 2012
by Grace Yia-Hei Kao

Jeanette Stokes’ 25 Years in the Garden is on my bedside... more
March 31, 2012
by Grace Yia-Hei Kao

Jeanette Stokes’ 25 Years in the Garden is on my bedside table. It’s a book I read several years ago with a small group of feminist Christians when I was living in Blacksburg, Virginia. The following passage from one of her essays got me to thinking back to the 2012 PANAAWTM conference (Pacific, Asian, and North American Asian Women in Theology and Ministry) I had attended just two weeks ago:

“Rituals are part of everyday lives: reading the newspaper, checking the weather, waiting for the mail to come, or talking with a family member at the end of the day. Rituals can also mark the extraordinary events in our lives: the birth of a child, the death of a loved one, a birthday, marriage, anniversary, or divorce” (Stokes, 2002, p. 37).

We PANAAWTM attendees participated in two rituals that, while neither “everyday” nor “extraordinary,” were nevertheless symbolically very rich, meaningful, and unifying.

My Feminist Perspective of Authority – Part 1 by Elise M. Edwards

by Feminism and Religion

Originally posted on the Feminism and Religion project

I make a distinction between power and authority.  Authority is a personal characteristic based on a relationship... more I make a distinction between power and authority.  Authority is a personal characteristic based on a relationship of trust between me and a text, a person, or their work.  Power, on the other hand, is operative with or without trust.

This past weekend, I had the honor of participating in a workshop on Living Texts: Celebrating Feminist Perspective and Theo/alogy, Authority, and the Sacred in the Academy.  The workshop was organized for the Women’s Caucus of WECSOR, a regional association of national organizations who study religion.  I was delighted to connect with new friends, mentors and sisters interested in feminism and religion,

Anatomy of the Italian Web TV ecosystem. Current issues and future challenges.

by Valentina Bazzarin

Co-authored with Emiliano Trerè

The aim of this article is to provide an overview of the emergent Italian Web TV ecosystem. We begin by sketching a... more The aim of this article is to provide an overview of the emergent Italian Web TV ecosystem. We begin by sketching a summary of the Italian media scenario, focusing on three related aspects: the Rai-Mediaset duopoly, the Berlusconi anomaly and digital revolution of the TV system. We then switch to the Italian digital resistance scenario and describe some of the most interesting experiences developed in the Italian context. In the third part, we dissect and analyze the phenomenon of Italian Web TVs, exploring its roots, legal status, producers and audiences. We conclude by providing a reflection on Italian Web TVs as an ecosystem, both by pointing out some future challenges it will face within the Italian media scenario and by focusing on the role of active citizens and unprofessional producers in changing the scenario and in advocating pluralism and creativeness.

Misyurov D.A. Dialectical formulas based on the binary notation as the development formulas // Credo New. 2012. №2

by Dmitry Misyurov

The article suggests dialectical formulas based on the binary notation as the development formulas: formula with... more The article suggests dialectical formulas based on the binary notation as the development formulas: formula with dominant and the non-dominant elements; universal formula; formula with symbolic weight of elements; tautological formula. For example, it suggests an opportunity to use the dialectical formulas for modeling and artificial intelligence creation, etc.

ADB: Disabled People and Development

by Lorna Jean Edmonds

Asian Development Bank (2005)

The Disabled People and Development describes the evolution of the global response to disability as well as the... more The Disabled People and Development describes the evolution of the global response to disability as well as the concepts and tools for addressing the needs of disabled people

A Study of Unincorporated East Los Angeles. Monograph No. 3.

by reynaldo f. macias

Welcome to Tadlac Elementary School

by Diana Ruth Arcega

Community Encouragement: Returning to the Basis for Community Development

by Mark McBeth

Co-authored with Robert E. Chambers

Presents a philosophical and theoretical critique of community development's transformation into economic development.... more Presents a philosophical and theoretical critique of community development's transformation into economic development. Introduces a successful rural revitalization process termed "community encouragement" and integrates a community's traditional values with progressive revitalization plans
Suggested Citation

Robert E. Chambers and Mark K. McBeth. "Community Encouragement: Returning to the Basis for Community Development." Journal of Community Society 22.1 (1992): 20-38.

The Use of Green Space for Urban Communities

by Bram Vanhoutte

In: Green Days. A multidisciplinary project on art and nature. 2012

To grasp the utility of green space, it’s important to understand the thinking around urban communities, which is... more To grasp the utility of green space, it’s important to understand the thinking around urban communities, which is sketched out concisely in this contribution. The second part of this text focuses on the effects of green space on community, and the mechanisms involved. We close with a discussion on green space in the city, and its role.

Desorden social, integración social y bienestar subjetivo en inmigrantes latinoamericanos en España [Social disorder, social integration, and subjective well-being among Latin-American immigrants in Spain]

by Enrique Gracia

Anales de Psicología, 28, 505-514, 2012

Slavery and Colonialism: The Worst Terrorism on Africa

by Mohamed Eno

Co-authored with Omar A. Eno, Mohamed H. Ingiriis, and Jamal M. Haji; Published in African Renaissance, Vol. 9, No. 1, 2012.

Humans need not justify terrorism of any kind, regardless of whether one is Muslim, Christian or Jew, because it is... more Humans need not justify terrorism of any kind, regardless of whether one is Muslim, Christian or Jew, because it is the axis of evil and devastation of mankind. However, the deliberate use of the term terrorism in recent decades was carefully selected, mainly, against a certain religion (Islam). The idea was then globally politicized by the Western world. Leaving that scholarly view in its own right, we disagree with the opinion raising terrorism as the devil’s just-born child of evil, when in reality Africans had been terrorized for centuries as slaves and human chattel. Hence the basis for the concept of this thesis: conceptualizing the episode of ‘terrorism’ and ‘terrorist’ from the broader perspective of its practice from the Middle Passage or the Atlantic Slave Trade. To portray that argument and broaden the scope of the debate over this critically sensitive subject, we divided the discussion into three sections: an examination of what constitutes terrorism and terrorist; history of terrorism and terrorists from an Africa perspective; and the ideological constraints within the subject of terrorism as practiced by the US and its Western allies.

Is the doctor on? In search of users for medical software in rural Himalayas

by Payal Arora

The Indian healthcare sector provides ripe ground for development as access to high-quality and timely medical... more The Indian healthcare sector provides ripe ground for development as access to high-quality and timely medical diagnosis remains unrequited among its vast rural populace. With an acute shortage of doctors in rural areas, medical diagnostic software has been created as a surrogate,
propelling non-physician workers to step in. For diagnostic software to function effectively, it is paramount to identify the user. Using an intended pilot programme of RightChoice software in the central Himalayas, the present article focuses on the political and economic complexities involved in identifying users of such software.

Book Review on Organizational Development Practices in the Philippines

by Yasmin Reyes

For organizational development to work, non-governmental organizations and people organizations must return and... more For organizational development to work, non-governmental organizations and people organizations must return and fulfill their mandate of providing assistance and intervention to their beneficiaries. The process may require some paradigm shift and organizational restructure, but the end goal is to uplift the lives of the people and the community.

Annist, A. 2005. The worshippers of rules: Defining the right and wrong in local participatory project applications in Estonia.

by Aet Annist

Published in D. Mosse; D. Lewis (Toim.). The Aid Effect: Giving and Governing in International Development (150 - 170). London: Pluto Press
!! Not the exact replica of the published article.

Developmental cultures evolve through a complicated set of interests and agendas as well as the concerns of various... more Developmental cultures evolve through a complicated set of interests and agendas as well as the concerns of various stakeholders. The ethnographic data I collected during fieldwork in two south-east Estonian communities, and at different levels of a DFID-funded multi-agency participatory rural programme (RP) seeking to reduce poverty and social exclusion in rural communities in the Baltic states, is well suited to study this complex scene of global and local development relations.
I examine the evaluation process of project applications from rural Estonian communities at precisely the stage where the programme’s general ideology is tested and translated into practice. The chapter shows how local development agents strictly follow the requirements and regulations that organise the evaluation process in such a way as to create the impression of a trustworthy partner for foreign funders. At the same time, the process serves to conceal a frequent reliance on personal information, such as a suspicion about the motives of certain applicants, when rejecting projects.
The ethnographic cases provided illustrate both the process of translation in development industry as well as of the sensitivities in relation to the developmental status of post-Soviet societies.

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by Alice Semedo

Involving local people in local development initiatives

by Suman Chowdhury Mony

People especially youths of a country can play a vital role for development of their country. However, Government of... more People especially youths of a country can play a vital role for development of their country. However, Government of those countries has no sufficient money for do the development work in every sector and every area at a time, than people of those countries can take initiatives for some small types development activities. For that, peoples should be united at first and than take decision what should be done.

Past as Future: Imagining Design Minus Modernism

by Arvind Lodaya

An Evaluation of Community and Corporate Bias in Assessment Tools

by Katie Thomas

The Chicago school in global community: Concept explication for communication theories and practices.

by Katerina Tsetsura

Kruckeberg, D., & Tsetsura, K. (2008). The Chicago school in global community: Concept explication for communication theories and practices. Asian Communication Research, 5, 9-30.

Sacred Structures: Narrating Lifeworlds and Implications for Urban Arts Education Practice

by James Haywood Rolling, Jr.

Rolling, J. H. (2011). Sacred structures: Narrating lifeworlds and implications for urban arts education practice. Studies in Art Education, 53 (2), 112-124.

Utilizing the story of an art studio project involving second grade students in a new urban elementary school as they... more Utilizing the story of an art studio project involving second grade students in a new urban elementary school as they explored and engaged with architectural spaces in their community during their yearlong study of the theme of “Community,” the purpose of this writing is to theorize and codify some major tenets of a narrative and reinterpretive approach to urban arts & design education pedagogy—one that recognizes and draws upon the colliding experiences and environments of urban living as an asset to the (re)constitution of identity and community.