scholarly journals Questioning Participatory Community Development in the Third World

1992 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
David Pinel
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
International Development ◽  
Cultural Sensitivity ◽  
Change Agents ◽  
Participatory Development ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Development Change ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Third World ◽  
Cultural Baggage

This paper links the common objectives of "participatory development" and "community development" into a concept named "participatory community development" (PCD). This approach may increase the cultural sensitivity of development projects, and is closely linked with the parallel methodology of participatory action research. In its popular usage, however, little is said of the attendant Western cultural baggage of PCD. The paper proposes an increased awareness of development change agents, and changes in the international development decision-making structure at the diagnosis level.

scholarly journals Social enterprise in a remote Indigenous community – Barunga Festival in Australia's Northern Territory

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Prescott C. Ensign
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Social Enterprise ◽  
Change Agents ◽  
Dynamic Environment ◽  
Northern Territory ◽  
Aboriginal Community ◽  
Course Of Action ◽  
Development Change ◽  
Socio Economic Impact ◽  
Remote Indigenous Community

Abstract In 2020, the Barunga Festival would have celebrated its 35th anniversary. In mid-June of 2021, as many as 4,000 individuals were expected to descend on an aboriginal community of 300 residents located 400 km south of Darwin. This case describes the challenge to the Festival's promoters as they seek to sustain peak socio-economic impact in their role as community development change agents in a diverse and dynamic environment. The reader is tasked with clarifying goals, deciding what is at stake, and setting a course of action to realize those objectives.

Participatory Development in Maragoli, Kenya: Reflections on Practicing Anthropology

2014 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 11-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
David McConnell ◽  
Jan den Bakker ◽  
Samuel Kidini ◽  
Joyce Bunyoli
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Third World ◽  
Participatory Development ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Community Members ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Third World ◽  
Paternalistic Attitude

Over the past two decades, participatory development programs that emphasize local control and decision-making have become more common around the globe. Such initiatives respond to the thought-provoking critiques of the discourse and practice of "development" that have emerged since the 1990s. Critics have argued, for example, that the development industry promotes a paternalistic attitude that sees Western standards as the benchmark against which to measure the "Third World" (Escobar 1995), privileges donor priorities over local needs, and uses aid to grow government and NGO bureaucracies rather than directly assisting community members (Ferguson 2006). It sees recipients of aid as an undifferentiated mass of underdeveloped subsistence farmers (Lewellen 2002). Participatory development programs are one response to the need for a new paradigm in community development that empowers locals while avoiding the pitfalls of "philanthropic colonialism."

scholarly journals The Catholic 1968: Poland, Social Justice, and the Global Cold War

Slavic Review ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 77 (3) ◽  
pp. 638-660 ◽  
Author(s):  
Piotr H. Kosicki
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
International Development ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Sexual Politics ◽  
Soviet Bloc ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Humanae Vitae ◽  
New Vision ◽  
The Third World ◽  
The Catholic Church

In the 1960s, the Catholic Church underwent a revolution in the teaching and practice of its faith, known as aggiornamento. Catholics responded by pioneering new forms of agency in world affairs in the Global Sixties. This was a cross-Iron Curtain story, affecting communist and non-communist countries in Europe, as well as developing countries across the world – a story of transfers and encounters unfolding simultaneously along multiple geographical axes: “East-West,” “North-South,” and “East-South.” The narrative anchor for this story is the year 1968. This article explores the seminal role of east European Catholics in this story, focusing on Polish Catholic intellectuals as they wrote and rewrote global narratives of political economy and sexual politics. A global Catholic conversation on international development stalled as sexual politics reinforced Cold War and post-colonial divisions, with the Second and Third Worlds joining forces against First World critics of a new papal teaching on contraception, Humanae Vitae. Paradoxically, the Soviet Bloc became the prism through which the Catholic Church refracted a new vision of international development for the Third World.

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT IN THE THIRD WORLD—CAN WE LEARN FROM IT?

1996 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-15
Author(s):  
Christian P. Casparis ◽  
Hans-Peter Meier-Dallach ◽  
Peter Schübeler
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Third World ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Third World

scholarly journals Race, Gender and "Difference": Representations of "Third World Women" in International Development

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christiana Abraham
Keyword(s):  
International Development ◽  
Third World ◽  
Developing World ◽  
Doctoral Study ◽  
Canadian International Development Agency ◽  
Women In Development ◽  
Third World Women ◽  
The Third World ◽  
Representations Of Women ◽  
Images Of Women

AbstractThis paper analyses images of international development through a study of the ways in which development representations produce and circulate “difference” with respect to women and the developing world. Through both overt and subtle narratives, representations of women as “different,” “distant” and “other” construct both the object and subject of development. The paper discusses the process by which racialization operates in development through gender as a signifying practice. Based on a doctoral study of communication materials of Women in Development (WID) images produced by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), the paper analyses images of women of the developing world in communication materials attached to major campaigns during the Women in Development (WID) period. WID represents an important legacy of today’s prevalent images of women in development. The paper situates this legacy within the colonial roots of development and its representations, which include historical constructions of the "third world woman" that intricately reproduce a range of colonial images and practices. Images of "third world women" have become development’s most eminent symbol, yet many continue to communicate static and predictable views about the developing world.

Bearing Burdens

2018 ◽  
pp. 123-151
Author(s):  
William O. Walker
Keyword(s):  
International Development ◽  
Multinational Corporations ◽  
Third World ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Civic Action ◽  
The Third ◽  
American Century ◽  
Alliance For Progress ◽  
Agency For International Development ◽  
The Third World

This chapter assesses the various obstacles impeding the expansion of the American Century from early 1961 through 1964. Numerous problems, including Laos, Berlin, the Cuban missile crisis, and Vietnam brought into question John F. Kennedy’s leadership. His response too often minimized consultation with allies and, across the Third World, increasingly focused on security and stability through civic action programs, overseen by the Office of Public Safety in the Agency for International Development—to the great detriment, for example, of experiments like the Alliance for Progress. Meanwhile, the rise of multinational corporations and deficit-induced flight of gold thwarted Kennedy’s and Lyndon Johnson’s economic policies, while weakening America’s hegemony and credibility.

Alternative Approaches to Regional Equity and Racial Justice

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward G. Goetz
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Community Development ◽  
The Other ◽  
Racial Justice ◽  
Common Goal ◽  
Racial Equity ◽  
Regional Equity ◽  
Alternative Approaches ◽  
The Common ◽  
The One

This chapter provides an overview of two different ways of working towards racial justice and regional equity. The two approaches are integration efforts on the one hand and community development efforts on the other. The tension between these two approaches is described as a conflict among groups that are generally allied on issues of social justice. It is argued that this debate is a tension within a race-conscious policy alliance, and represents a disagreement about how best to achieve the common goal of racial equity.

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