scholarly journals Bridges Don’t Make Themselves: Using Community-Based Theater to Reshape Relationships: Rethinking the Idea of Abundance in ABCD

Societies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 54
Author(s):  
Zechariah Lange
Keyword(s):  
Gulf Coast ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Social Interventions ◽  
Behavioral Interaction ◽  
Narrative Reconstruction ◽  
Asset Based Community Development ◽  
Working Groups ◽  
Contextual Modeling

Community-based theater has a variety of manifestations, and the plurality with which these manifestations are occurring is increasing. As such, the diversity and complexity derived from these social sites of public engagement requires further understanding. This article is based upon a multi-case study of two community-based theaters: one in Middle Appalachia, and the other on the Gulf Coast of Florida. Together these sites of performative expression are acting as social interventions for differing reasons within their respective contexts. Through intensive and communicative processes, the theaters provide examples of how co-created performances at the community level simultaneously catalyze relationships and alter how relationships are experienced to engage community members in discussion and performances. As a complex behavioral interaction, the two theaters simultaneously manifest dimensions of ‘abundance’, as well as expand upon normative conceptions of asset-based community development. Through process and contextual modeling, the work provides in-depth exploration to these interpersonal endeavors to assist in how socio-cultural differences as well as narrative reconstruction co-join to enact the individuality of identity across working groups as an overall discursive process.

Student Technology Projects in a Remote First Nations Village

2007 ◽  
pp. 137-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tish Scott
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
First Nations ◽  
Qualitative Case Study ◽  
Multimedia Technology ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Children's Education ◽  
Children’S Education

This qualitative case study focuses on community members’ observations and perceptions of student multimedia technology projects produced in a grade 6/7 class, particularly in relation to what they affirm is important for their children’s education. The projects are community-based and rooted in the First Nations culture of a remote village in northern British Columbia (Canada).

scholarly journals What small NGOs can deliver: A case study of a Canadian community-based project making fabric scrub caps for healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 63 (6) ◽  
pp. 851-856
Author(s):  
Qiuyu Jiang
Keyword(s):  
Resource Allocation ◽  
Healthcare Workers ◽  
Crisis Response ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Protective Equipment ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Governmental Organization ◽  
Local Healthcare

This essay examines how a small-scale non-governmental organization mobilizes community members in Montreal, Canada, to respond to the city’s shortage of personal protective equipment during COVID-19 by making more than 1600 scrub caps for local healthcare workers. As the CAP-MTL project has progressed, organizers have constantly adjusted how they run the project in order to meet evolving needs through three major phases: (1) centralizing resource allocation, (2) building a self-sufficient production team and (3) pairing volunteers with healthcare workers. This case study highlights how in crisis response projects, organizers must be flexible and adapt to fluid and dynamic situations.

scholarly journals Decolonizing Research and Urban Youth Work Through Community-University Partnerships

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 3
Author(s):  
Illana C. Livstrom ◽  
Amy Smith ◽  
Mary Rogers ◽  
Karl Hackansan
Keyword(s):  
Urban Youth ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Youth Voice ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Community Based ◽  
University Partnerships ◽  
Decolonizing Methodologies ◽  
Ongoing Work ◽  
Cognitive Justice

“Grounding Roots” is a community-based collaborative educational program that aims to build food, environmental, and cognitive justice through sustainable urban agriculture and horticulture via intergenerational communities of practice. Drawing upon Linda Tuhiwai Smith’s framework of decolonizing methodologies, this qualitative case study examined the ways in which a Community-University partnership engaged in decolonizing work through research and practice, as well as the ways in which the partnership served to preserve colonizing practices. Data analyses was guided by deductive coding strategies grounded in theory on decolonizing practices. Identified decolonizing practices included implementing a program of worth to the community and youth; building from community-led agendas; and prioritizing community healing and transformation over academic research agendas. Identified colonizing practices included inequitable power hierarchies in the leadership team and in garden groups, deficit-oriented talk about minoritized youth, and the devalorization of youth voice. Implications from this work call for researchers to do their own research about the white supremacist roots embedded in their practices, and to embrace decolonizing and humanizing practices to guide their work. This ongoing work highlights the need for researchers doing community-based work to engage in community-driven agendas that prioritize processes over products; to facilitate distributed leadership in collaboration with community members; and to produce worthwhile work and products with the community.

scholarly journals Stakeholders’ perceptions of environmental injustices and of community-based environmental education : a case study of the Stortplaats community in KwaZulu Natal

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Emmanuel Ndlovu
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Education ◽  
Current System ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Oxidation Ponds ◽  
Environmental Burdens

The purpose of this study was to investigate stakeholders’ perceptions of environmental injustices and of community-based environmental education at Stortplaats, in order to address the injustices through community-based environmental education. Environmental injustice is a phenomenon that entails the unfair distribution of environmental burdens, disproportionately exposing human life to environmental hazards. Communities in poor socio-economic circumstances are excessively exposed to negative environmental burdens such as sewage oxidation ponds, pollution, unprecedented land degradation due to sand poaching and inadequate infrastructure. Stortplaats faces such an oppressive environment. It was historically created by apartheid, but the current system seems to be paying minimum attention to corrective services. The stakeholder theory, environmental perception framework, place attachment theory and community-based environmental education model were used as frames of reference for this study. This study was informed by the interpretivist paradigm and the case study research design was adopted. A qualitative research approach was used. Convenience and purposive sampling were used to sample 25 participants who included five learners above 18 years, five educators, 10 community members, the chief, the community head, the councillor, a business person and the environmental health officer. Semi-structured individual interview schedules were utilised to gather data. These were complemented by photovoice narrations and indirect observation. A thematic data-analysis approach was used to analyse generated data. The key findings of the study indicate that apartheid contours are still visible at Stortplaats and postapartheid promises have not been kept. The findings also show that some community members lack knowledge about environmental policies and this results in irresponsible environmental behaviour. There is also lack of effective communication between leaders and community members, leading to struggles for power and recognition and causing poor service delivery. Finally, the findings show a need for community-based environmental education to address environmental injustices in Stortplaats.

(In)visibilizing Vulnerable Community Members: Processes of Urban Inclusion and Exclusion in Parkdale, Toronto

2020 ◽  
pp. 120633122094410
Author(s):  
Elena Ostanel
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Conceptual Tool ◽  
The Public ◽  
Or Groups ◽  
Public Character ◽  
Path Dependent ◽  
Neighborhood Level

The visibility and invisibility of vulnerable individuals or groups in public space have been extensively used as a conceptual tool to assess the “public” character of space. This article analyses the case study of the Parkdale neighborhood in Toronto demonstrating how public space is constructed in a path-dependent territorial process where different layers play a dynamic constitutive role: a material, a discursive, and a policy dimension. It argues that urban visibilization and invisibilization in public spaces extensively affect the dynamics of urban inclusion and exclusion, particularly when they are used in specific territorial stigmatization and destigmatization processes. The investigation enables to better understand the socio-spatial conditions comprising the “denial” and “recognition” of certain groups and individuals at the neighborhood level by understanding how local policies and community-based practices influence the complex dynamic of “seeing and being seen” in an urban environment.

scholarly journals Community-Based Ecotourism Management: The Case of a Cooperative in Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Mexico

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-170
Author(s):  
Jorge Ramos-García ◽  
Juan Pedro Ibarra-Michel ◽  
Mónica Velarde-Valdez
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
National Commission ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Natural Protected Areas ◽  
Community Residents ◽  
The Government

Abstract Nature-based ecotourism has been a growing trend, especially in rural areas where balance with the environment is desirable and it turns into a driver for economic and social development. An ecotourism cooperative operating in the “El Verde Camacho” Sanctuary, is an example of collaborative work between the government experts and the community. The cooperative was created with the support of the National Commission of Natural Protected Areas (CONANP, in Spanish Comisión Nacional de Áreas Naturales Protegidas), developed and funded by this government office, it involved the advice of experts in ecology as well as cooperative’s management and residents of “El Recreo” community. This study aims to describe the involvement process and community management as well as the benefits derived from ecotourism according to the reviewed literature; a case study with a qualitative approach was defined in the Sanctuary in this regard. Semi-structured interviews were used to discover community members’ perception of management involvement and benefits of ecotourism. The findings show positive opinions of community residents.

Empowering Undergraduate Students Through Community-Based Research

2018 ◽  
pp. 288-307
Author(s):  
Gemma Punti ◽  
Nitya V. Chandiramani ◽  
Chelsea Maria Steffens
Keyword(s):  
Transformative Learning ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Based Research ◽  
Civic Learning ◽  
Civic Skills ◽  
Group Interviews

Community-based research (CBR) is a powerful pedagogical tool for actively engaging and empowering undergraduate students in their research endeavors. This chapter explores how CBR facilitated undergraduate researchers' transformative learning and the development of their civic skills when collaborating with alternative schools. Using the undergraduate researchers' reflections, focus group interviews, and a survey, this case study reveals how developing relationships with young, underserved community members was essential in changing their perspectives regarding the educational system and themselves. Furthermore, the undergraduate researchers' obstacles in collaborating with the community and within their team cohorts became critical sources of civic learning. The challenges of working with various partners fostered their capacity to navigate ambiguity, develop flexibility, and determine which experiences to communicate to community partners. CBR compelled the undergraduate researchers to maneuver through the unforeseen challenges of real life collaborations.

“Building Together” in Baltimore? Corporate Megadevelopment and Coalitions for Community Power

2021 ◽  
pp. 107808742110213
Author(s):  
P. Nicole King ◽  
Meghan Ashlin Rich
Keyword(s):  
Coalition Building ◽  
Tax Increment Financing ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Based Organizations ◽  
Community Benefits ◽  
Community Power ◽  
Community Benefits Agreements ◽  
The City

We consider how various coalitions influence redevelopment projects in cities, especially as communities demand more inclusion in the development process. Based on qualitative research, we investigate the approval process for the 235-acre megadevelopment project at Port Covington in Baltimore, Maryland, and how stakeholders, including developers, community-based organizations, politicians, and impacted community members view the project, the tax increment financing (TIF) granted by the city, and community benefits agreements (CBAs). Community leaders leaned hard on the development corporation, demanding community and city-wide benefits before a TIF could be approved. We analyze the processes of the Port Covington CBA within the context of the political and economic dynamics of Baltimore. This case study adds to our understanding of how communities respond to corporate-led developments through coalition building, effectively gaining power in how elite governing regimes dictate development in cities.

A Nonprofit's Transition to Teletherapy Due to the COVID-19 Crisis: Learning How to Adapt

2021 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-58
Author(s):  
Nicole Linardi ◽  
Claudia Herrera ◽  
Cassandra Cacace
Keyword(s):  
Brief Therapy ◽  
The State ◽  
Clinical Staff ◽  
Level Of Care ◽  
Children And Families ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Abrupt Transition ◽  
Virtual Therapy

Due to the state of the COVID-19 in Florida, a community-based agency serving children and families had to transition abruptly to teletherapy. This agency adapted to pandemic-related challenges by transitioning from in-person to virtual therapy, which played a key role in safely serving community members. This article explores the unique benefits and difficulties of the transition to teletherapy under those circumstances. The agency clinical staff utilized their brief therapy skills and strengths-oriented perspective to aid in this abrupt transition, as illustrated by a case study. Ultimately, the agency's transition was a successful one as evidenced by a survey of both agency clinicians and clients, and by uninterrupted services at the same volume of cases and level of care. Suggestions are made for other providers seeking to cope with similar transitions.

scholarly journals Group Dynamics in the Cyberspace (Case Study on ‘Komunitas Blogger Jogja’ and ‘Loenpia Dot Net’)

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 46
Author(s):  
Ayu Amalia ◽  
Filosa Gita Sukmono
Keyword(s):  
Group Dynamics ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Web Page ◽  
Computing Technology ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Cultural Shift ◽  
Changing Patterns ◽  
Descriptive Approach

<p><em><span>Context of this study derived from communication studies, emphasizes on the perspective of ’a cultural shift’ as a result of the ’cyberspace’ phenomenon as an impact of the current-computing technology, and the changing patterns of information transmission and communication. Researchers conducted indepth interviews, towards the members of a bloggers community, such as 'Komunitas Blogger Jogja' (bloggerjogja.org), and 'Loenpia Dot Net' (loenpia.net/blog) which is a bloggers community based in Semarang</span><span lang="IN">.</span><span>This research use qualitative analysis</span><span lang="IN"> with descriptive approach</span><span>.</span><span>As results, ’</span><span lang="SV">group dynamics’ that are developed by each community, corresponds with the community character and nature, to maintain the self-existence. Member of bloggers community maintain the existence of his/her bloggers community, conducted by interacting on a regular basis amongst community members, as well as build awareness for the netizens by upload various information on his/her personal blog, linked with community web page.</span></em></p>

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