Community Activism and Civic Innovation
Community Activism and Civic Innovation
Community participation is an increasingly central issue within discourses of urban governance, and the aim of this theme is to bring together debates around the nature of community involvement and its impacts in the urban context. This relates, firstly, to questions around the impact that community organisations can really have on urban programmes, and in what ways there can be meaningful participation. Secondly, there are questions around the benefits of urban change for communities and whether certain groups are excluded from these benefits.
- Community-based organisations and urban change
- Community leadership, citizen participation & neighbourhood governance
- The role of the voluntary sector and social economy
- Community capacity and social capital
- Reform of public services
Contact: Maggie Reid [Email: m.c.reid@socsci.gla.ac.uk]
Community Activism and Civic Innovation
1. Catherine Bochel: Marginalised or Enabled Voices? ‘User Participation’ in Policy and Practice
2. Karien Dekker: (i) Exit, Voice and Loyalty: Residents’ Response to Neighbourhood Decline
3. Karin Fröding: Participation in Community Development – a Challenge for Both Politicians and Inhabitants
4. Sarah Glynn: Soft-Selling Gentrification?
5. Leslie Huckfield: Communities and Regeneration
6. Jacob Larsen: Public Deliberation, Community Capacity and Neighbourhood Dynamics
7. Dee MacDonald: We Never said it was Easy...Lessons Learnt from Collaborative Research
8. Kim McKee: Re-Territorializing Housing Governance: Transforming Scotland’s Public Sector Housing Through ‘Community Ownership’
9. John Onyango: (ii) Changing Attitudes of Community Through the Design Charrette Process
10. Carolina Pacchi: Local Groups: Voice, Conflict, Knowledge Forms
11. Jon Pickering: Misnomer or MacGuffin - Does Community Development Develop Community?
12. Dr Derrick Purdue: Community Activism or Policy Implementation? Resident to Resident Learning in Neighbourhood Governance
13. José Manuel Rodríguez Alvarez: New Participative Trends in Spanish Cities: Reality and Fashion
14. Paula Russell: Engaged Communities: Creating Social Capital at Neighbourhood Level
15. Ted van de Wijdeven: Real-Life Expressions of Vital Citizenship: a Typology Informed by Present-Day Community Participation in Dutch City Neighbourhoods