CITB03H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Environmental Racism, Community Organizing, Community Development Corporation
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Week two online reading: reframing community pracice for the 21st century by william sites, robert. This paper is guided by the regulaion theory which looks into how each of the community pracice tradiions responded to the successive challenges posed by fordist (us context) Community organizaion became a disincive social work pracice early as early as 1920 and: (came from chicago) Rothmans three approaches to community intervenion: social planning community organizing, and community development: social planning- looks into internal assets (people and relaionships) Community intervenion as technical/organizaional research-based process to solve social problems. Key challenge: tensions between controlled condiions helpful towards knowledge producion and implementaion vs unstable condiions typical of community level social life. Criique: dependence on external sources: community organizing: top-down. Community intervenion as the building of conlict-iniiaing democraic-acion organizaions to redistribuive power and resources. Key challenge: contracing durable organizaions that can iniiate a pursue conlict (avoid problems) Community development: top-down communiies as paricipatory self-governing areas.
