Case II.6: The Construction of ‘Public Knowledge’ within Community Planning Partnerships: Reducing Structurally Embedded Inequalities at Local Level?

2020 ◽  
pp. 199-216
Author(s):  
Marion Ellison
Keyword(s):  
Community Engagement ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Community Planning ◽  
Public Knowledge ◽  
Democratic Community ◽  
Economic Inequalities

The concept of ‘public knowledge’, how it is created, its role and influence has become central to understandings of forms of democratic community engagement, which are designed to address economic, social and economic inequalities at local level (Fraser, 1990; Williams, 2008; Bivens et al, 2015...

Intimate Transgressions and Communalist Narratives: Inter-religious romance in a divided Gujarat

2016 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 1277-1297 ◽  
Author(s):  
CAROLYN HEITMEYER
Keyword(s):  
Religious Affiliation ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Public Knowledge ◽  
Arranged Marriage ◽  
Social Conventions ◽  
Significant Challenge ◽  
Social Divisions ◽  
Beliefs And Values ◽  
Media Reports

AbstractIn this article, I examine the seeming paradox of Hindu–Muslim romantic affairs in the wider context of communalism in Gujarat in the wake of the 2002 anti-Muslim violence. At the outset, such affairs appear to embody the most extreme form of taboo, both in their defiance of conventional arranged marriage systems (where caste endogamy and shared religious affiliation play a paramount role) as well as in the wider socio-political context in which Hindus and Muslims are viewed as irreconcilable enemies, or at least oppositional in lifestyle, beliefs, and values. Yet, while media reports in recent years have highlighted similar cases of transgressive liaisons elsewhere in India which have been met with extreme violence, the couplings which I describe in this article, are in practice tolerated by kin and neighbours as an ‘open secret’ which, while public knowledge, has not incurred strong retribution. While love has often been presented as a force for emancipation from the constraints of social conventions and norms in the popular media, I argue that this ‘toleration’ of inter-religious liaisons in the cases I describe suggests the very opposite: namely, that they do not present a significant challenge to entrenched social divisions at the local level.

scholarly journals DIY Urbanism: Influences & Impacts on Community Planning

Topophilia ◽  
2017 ◽  
pp. 67-71
Author(s):  
Steven Shuttle
Keyword(s):  
Community Engagement ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Public Safety ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Community Planning ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Do It Yourself

‘Do It Yourself’ (DIY) urbanism is usually initiated by community members using a grassroots approach to change urban areas. Community planning involves making decisions about urban areas. This paper examines topics regarding DIY urbanism and community planning. Community engagement, neoliberalism and municipal support are key influences of DIY urbanism related to planning. DIY urbanism impacts the planner’s role as well as the relationships between planners, communities and municipalities. Three Canadian examples of DIY urbanism are introduced, including the Urban Repair Squad, PARK(ing) Day, and CITYlab. Discussion focuses on the opportunities and potential challenges of DIY urbanism for planners to consider. Potential challenges include public safety and municipal liability. Recommendations for planners regarding DIY urbanism are provided. DIY urbanism can be beneficial if planners work collaboratively and focus on small scale, low cost improvements.

Disciplining Higher Education for Democratic Community Engagement

2012 ◽  
pp. 177-186
Author(s):  
Ariane Hoy ◽  
Mathew Johnson ◽  
Robert Hackett
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Democratic Community

Knowledge infrastructure and research agendas for quotidian Anthropocenes: Critical localism with planetary scope

2021 ◽  
pp. 205301962110319
Author(s):  
Kim Fortun ◽  
James Adams ◽  
Tim Schütz ◽  
Scott Gabriel Knowles
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Cultural Analysis ◽  
Public Knowledge ◽  
Cultural Institutions ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Knowledge Infrastructure ◽  
Academic Researchers ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Term Field

The Anthropocene requires the development of new forms of knowledge and supporting sociotechnical infrastructure. While there have been calls for both interdisciplinary and community-engaged approaches, there remains a need to develop, test, and sustain modes of Anthropocene knowledge production that effectively link people working at different scales, in different sites, with many different types of expertise. In this Perspectives piece, we describe one such approach to Anthropocene knowledge production, centered in short-term Field Campuses that bring together community actors in cultural institutions, media, and government agencies with external academic researchers, bringing cultural analysis into the work of characterizing and responding to the Anthropocene. We argue that it is important to build public knowledge infrastructure that allows people to visualize and address many intersecting scales and systems (ecological, atmospheric, economic, technological, social, cultural, etc.) that shape the Anthropocene at the local level.

Authors of their own lives? Children, Contracts, their Responsibilities, Rights and Citizenship

2013 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 372-384 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Cockburn
Keyword(s):  
Contract Theory ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Critical Distance ◽  
Direct Contrast ◽  
Special Case ◽  
Economic Inequalities

This article explores contract theory and suggests that a focus on contracts provides an understanding of what it is to be human and the concomitant rights that spring from this. Thus despite children being a ‘special case’ and requiring higher levels of protection and intervention than adults, this always remains a gift that does not have the clarity or effectiveness that contracts provide. While retaining a constant critical distance attention to children’s ‘ability’ to write contracts illustrates in a clear way the evolving capacities of the child and the graduated way in which children are expected to gain responsibilities. This more complex and contested formulation of rights tends to be embedded in specific case laws at a local level, in direct contrast to the more abstract forms of rights that may present all children as vulnerable and lacking. Though the prism of contracts, a perspective to wider economic inequalities is enabled in a manner that may give us a different approach to issues such as consumerism.

scholarly journals Empowering cities and citizens within emerging models of multilevel governance

2019 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ricard Gomà I Carmona
Keyword(s):  
Community Engagement ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Multilevel Governance ◽  
Citizen Involvement ◽  
Local Institutions ◽  
International Level ◽  
Global Action ◽  
Multilevel Networks ◽  
The Way

The article will be dealing with the empowerment of local institutions within a complex context of multilevel governance. The strengthening of cities will lead us to consider a new transformative municipalism. The transition from classic government to relational forms of governance paves the way to consider both emerging multilevel networks and models of citizen involvement at local level. The case of Barcelona today will be shown as an example of boths trends: initiatives of community engagement in urban policymaking, and local-global action at European and international level.  KEYWORDS: Networks. Governance. Empowerment. Multilevel.

Video Learning in Community Planning

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 482-490
Author(s):  
Carl Grodach
Keyword(s):  
Experiential Learning ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Student Learning ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Community Planning ◽  
Community Change ◽  
Learning Tool ◽  
Urban Theory ◽  
Planning Education

This article explores the use of video as an experiential learning tool in planning education. We report on the design of a video learning assignment for undergraduate community planning students and the results of a pre- and postsurvey used to gauge the student learning experience. Results show that video-making can be an effective tool to inspire students to make connections between complex urban theory and planning content and their everyday surroundings. This approach may be a useful support for future planners whose roles will involve community engagement and developing scenarios for community change.

scholarly journals Exploring Community Engagement in Climate Change Planning: The Case in Samoa

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Annie Saofaiga Toailoa
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Local Level ◽  
National Level ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Adaptation Planning ◽  
Ecological Knowledge ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Research Findings

<p>Coastal communities within Pacific Island Countries (PIC) are vulnerable due to the rising and volatile nature of the sea as a result of climate change. Adaptation strategies and community-based approaches have increasingly been advocated for by environmental organisations, policy makers and researchers. Community-based approaches have, in turn, begun to promote the values of meaningful community engagement and integration of traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) into adaptation planning. This research explores the extent to which community engagement and TEK is utilised at both the national and local level adaptation planning in Samoa. An assessment of policies and plans assesses the national level context, whilst the community level context was explored through a study of the coastal village of Tafitoala.  A qualitative approach is employed in which semi-structured interviews were used to collect the perspectives of community members, government personnel, and Non-governmental Organisations (NGO) staff to provide a range of viewpoints.  Using Samoa as my case study, the research findings demonstrated that community ideologies and values, and community governance structures determine the efficacy of adaptation programmes. Findings also emphasised that although there is a vast amount of TEK used within local communities, documentation and verification of TEK is required in order for it be integrated more effectively into adaptation planning. Whilst the need for meaningful community engagement had already been identified by government and NGO agencies as a priority for effective adaptation, with agencies currently implementing strategies to encourage its integration, more is required for strategies to be strongly embedded into the practices of local communities.</p>

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