Housing as an Anchor for Community Building: Community Development Corporations in the United States

2001 ◽  
pp. 64-82
Author(s):  
Mercer L. Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Community Building ◽  
The United States ◽  
Community Development Corporations ◽  
Building Community

Book Reviews

2002 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 313-315
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Community Building ◽  
The United States ◽  
Community Capacity ◽  
Critical Geography ◽  
American Democracy ◽  
Power Politics ◽  
Sustainable Community Development ◽  
Building Community

Books Reviewed: Robert J. Chaskin, Prudence Brown, Sudhir Venkatesh, and Avis Vidal (eds.), Building Community Capacity Mark R. Warren (ed.), Dry Bones Rattling: Community Building to Revitalize American Democracy Robert M. Fogelson, Downtown, its Rise and Fall, 1880–1950 Peter Evans (ed.), Livable Cities? Urban Struggles for Livelihood and Sustainability Adam S. Weinberg, David N. Pellow, and Allan Schnaiberg (eds.), Urban Recycling and the Search for Sustainable Community Development David Harvey, Spaces of Capital: Towards a Critical Geography Judith Goode and Jeff Maskovsky (eds.), The New Poverty Studies: The Ethnography of Power, Politics, and Impoverished People in the United States

Since Silent Spring: New Voices, New Analyses, and New Movements

2003 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 319-334 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Patricia Hynes
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Environmental Policies ◽  
The United States ◽  
Agricultural Technologies ◽  
Rachel Carson ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Silent Spring ◽  
Pollutant Discharge

Forty years ago, in the enormously praised and fiercely criticized book, Silent Spring, Rachel Carson demonstrated the dangers of pesticides to humans and ecosystems and called for precaution in their use. Yet, the majority of environmental regulations passed since 1962 have primarily addressed pollutant discharge rather than cleaner products and technologies. The number of active ingredients in pesticides used in the United States has risen from 32 in 1939 to 860 in recent times, while the overall volume of agrochemicals applied has nearly doubled since the publication of Silent Spring. The last 40 years have brought significant changes with respect to environmental policies, agricultural technologies, urbanization, civil rights, women's rights, the roles of non-profit organizations and community development, and increased poverty, hunger, and economic inequality. In recent years, new voices, new analyses, and new movements have emerged offering fresh perspectives on how we can answer Carson's clarion call to protect our planet and ourselves.

Community College Leadership and Technology

2012 ◽  
pp. 187-201
Author(s):  
Petra A. Robinson ◽  
Tyra Metoyer ◽  
David Byrd ◽  
Dave Louis ◽  
Fred A. Bonner
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Community College ◽  
Community Development ◽  
The United States ◽  
Junior Colleges ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Community College Leadership ◽  
College Leadership ◽  
Virtual Age ◽  
College Leaders

Community colleges serve an important role in local communities across the United States. These institutions, based on their mission, seek to fulfill a social contract as partner in community development in the 21st century. Their function in local and the wider US community is undeniably important; more than half of the college students enrolled in the United States attend community, technical, and junior colleges (Pew Research Center, 2009). Community college leaders face especially challenging times given the economic, social, political, and technological contexts within which these institutions operate. This chapter brings focus to the various nuances of community college educational leadership with specific focus on technology in this new virtual age.

‘To really trust [...] we had to be open with ourselves and each other’: Community building through Spring Awakening

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-111
Author(s):  
Julie K. Hagen ◽  
Jennifer Thomas
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Community Building ◽  
The United States ◽  
Musical Theatre ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Spring Awakening ◽  
Narrative Ethnography ◽  
The Subject

The purpose of this ethnographic study was to better understand how participation in St. Lawrence University’s (New York, the United States) production of Spring Awakening served as a means of intimate and broader community building. This narrative ethnography investigated the director and a focus group of actors involved in the production of Spring Awakening. Analyses of the data revealed four themes: content, interconnectedness, emotion and vulnerability and magic. St. Lawrence University students welcomed and embraced the language, the music and the subject matter presented to them in the content of Spring Awakening. The willingness with which the students opened up to conversation and community continued to resonate with them in an interconnectedness that seemingly had more depth and more meaning than other productions they have worked on, including other musical theatre productions.

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