‘Community’: The Spray‐on Solution

Mowbray, Martin; Bryson, Lois

doi:10.1002/j.1839-4655.1981.tb00713.x

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“…As in other countries it is only with the assistance provided by informal caregivers that most of these people can continue to live at home (Department of Health, Housing and Community Services, 1995). With government policies promoting community care rather than institutional care and the predicted increase in the proportion of people requiring assistance to live at home, it is likely that informal caregivers will be increasingly relied on to provide the necessary support to maintain people at home (Bryson and Mowbray, 1981;Ungerson and Kember, 1997;Schofield, 1998, Fine, 1999.…”

Section: Australian Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Why caregivers of people with dementia and memory loss don't use services

Brodaty

Thomson

Thompson

et al. 2005

Int J Geriat Psychiatry

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Section: Australian Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Why caregivers of people with dementia and memory loss don't use services

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Thomson

Thompson

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Int J Geriat Psychiatry

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“…Those 'anti' groups draw upon the images and myths that all members of the community are so able to identify, but they proceed to develop these into sacred visions that are under challenge by the outsiders and their sympathisers (usually damned as the "politically correct"). The hard culture (Patience, 1991(Patience, , 1996 The idea of psychological sense of community has generated such a level of acceptance that it is, at times, almost a panacea (Bryson & Mowbray, 1981). All the ills that can befall one are prevented or cured, those who are at risk of experiencing alienation, separation, or loss of support are welcomed as part of the community.…”

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Psychological sense of community in Australia and the challenges of change

Fisher¹,

Sonn²

2002

Journal Community Psychology

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Social change is a phenomenon experienced in all societies, whether from gradual passages and time and interaction with other groups, or through the more immediate impacts as war, invasion or physical catastrophe. How societies manage change indicates much about their abilities to survive and the type of social cohesion that will be evidenced.In this paper, the authors investigate the use of common symbols and shared history as ways of either maintaining social identity and moving with change, or using them in negative ways in order to resist change. The case study of immigration toAustralia is used to demonstrate that members of the community are able to identify a series of salient identity markers -whether they wish to accept all of them or not -as the types of knowledge that all members share.Many of the markers reflect decades of passed history, but are seen as foundational to Australia today. While they are core to identity, they are the types of symbols that are grasped as a lifestyle under threat by those who are newcomers. Often the markers are there as more unconscious constructions, to be evoked at times of high emotion to indicate what must be "saved" in order for current ideas to survive.The authors discuss the meanings of these markers as ways in which the identity of members of the community has been established. But these are seen as reminders, or glorifications, of the past, and how such markers are able to be captured and (mis)used by narrow populist and extremist interest groups. The challenge of managing change is how to build forward, maintaining those markers of real social value, and incorporating the new ones that are brought by newcomers, and those that are developed together.

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“…Third, some writers have expressed skepticism regarding the potential of community (Berman, 1997;Bryson & Mowbray, 1981). Labonte (1990) cautioned that participation is mixed with romanticism (assuming that all community is good); bureaucratization (over-management of participation efforts in a manner that robs them of their effectiveness); and anti-professionalism (failing to recognize that professionals can play a complementary role in community development).…”

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Community Participation and Liquid Waste Management: Lessons From a Participatory Planning Process

Frankish¹,

Zamluk²,

Drake³

et al. 2000

proc water environ fed

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To more adequately address pollution control objectives, legislation in British Columbia, Canada allows local governments to develop Liquid Waste Management Plans (LWMPs). Unfortunately, a local referendum defeat prevented the development of such a Plan for a rural area in the Comox Valley on Vancouver Island. Unable to fund a traditional planning process, direct solutions could not be found for the larger region. Within that region the unincorporated community of Union Bay developed a community-driven, "hands-on" public process. This article describes the molding of the "Made in Union Bay" planning process. We explore the work of a multifaceted community committee, where citizens and staff from local, provincial, and federal levels of government sit together at the table. We also describe building successful partnerships, using bureaucracies and consultants as resources ("on tap", not "on top"); garnering innovative funding sources; and accessing creative talents within the community. The "Made in Union Bay" LWM Plan is charting a course to use waste as a resource to create economic wealth and social capital by using "living machines" such as constructed wetlands and/or solar greenhouses to treat wastewater. The committee is convinced that enhancing the environment and treating sewage as an asset, not a liability, will be their legacy. This case study contributes to our understanding of the potential benefits and limitations of community-driven approaches to environmental issues.

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‘Community’: The Spray‐on Solution

Cited by 81 publications

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Why caregivers of people with dementia and memory loss don't use services

Why caregivers of people with dementia and memory loss don't use services

Psychological sense of community in Australia and the challenges of change

Community Participation and Liquid Waste Management: Lessons From a Participatory Planning Process

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