‘It all boils down to respect doesn't it?’: Enacting a sense of community in a deprived inner‐city area

Patterson, Anne; Cromby, John; Brown, Steven D.; Gross, Harriet; Locke, Abigail

doi:10.1002/casp.1078

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“…Increasingly, health researchers working with qualitative methodologies have found the concept of social capital to be useful in a number of ways. For example, Patterson, Cromby, Brown, Gross, and Locke () use discursive and conversation analysis techniques to gain an understanding of the ways in which a sense of community is created and social capital is built. In this study, the concept of social capital offers an opportunity to examine how relationships in communities give rise to inequitable access to resources.…”

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Social Capital and Community Group Participation: Examining ‘Bridging’ and ‘Bonding’ in the Context of a Healthy Living Centre in the UK

Kirkby-Geddes

King

Bravington

2012

Community & Applied Soc Psy

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Social capital has been widely advocated as a way of understanding and building community participation in the interest of health improvement. However, the concept as proposed by Putnam, has been criticised for presenting an overly romanticised account of complex community relations. This paper presents analysis from a qualitative evaluation of a Healthy Living Centre in the North of England, to examine the utility of the concept of social capital in this context. We found the concepts of 'bridging' and 'bonding' social capital were usefulthough not without limitations -in helping to make sense of the complexities and contradictions in participants' experiences of community group participation. 'Bridging' helped provide an understanding of how the decline in shared social spaces such as local shops impacts on social relationships. 'Bonding' highlighted how community group membership can have positive and negative implications for individuals and the wider community. It was found that skilled group leadership was key to strengthening bridging capital.Politically, in the UK, community participation is seen as having an essential role in social change, for example its centrality to the coalition government's idea of the "Big Society". A micro-examination of this Healthy Living Centre using the lens of social capital provides a valuable critical insight into community participation. It shows that this kind of initiative can be successful in building social capital, given conditions such as an appropriate setting and effective leadership. However, they cannot substitute for other kinds of investment in the physical infrastructure of a community.

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Social Capital and Community Group Participation: Examining ‘Bridging’ and ‘Bonding’ in the Context of a Healthy Living Centre in the UK

Kirkby-Geddes

King

Bravington

2012

Community & Applied Soc Psy

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“…Patterson et al (2011) noted how individuals constructed themselves and others as 'insiders' or 'outsiders' of a community and such constructions were subsequently drawn upon to condone or condemn a variety of (anti)social behaviours. As Antaki and Widdicombe (1998) argue claims of 'membership' are participants' resources; they may invoke them as they may be locally and contingently required.…”

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“…As Widdicombe (1998: 191) suggests, identities ‘may be invoked as footings for the conduct of business’; there is much scope for individuals to claim or reject particular identities as a means of either aligning with or differentiating from particular positions. Patterson et al (2011) noted how individuals constructed themselves and others as ‘insiders’ or ‘outsiders’ of a community, and such constructions were subsequently drawn upon to condone or condemn a variety of (anti)social behaviours. As Antaki and Widdicombe (1998) argue, claims of ‘membership’ are participants’ resources; they may invoke them as they may be locally and contingently required.…”

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‘I was just gobsmacked’: Care workers’ responses to BBC Panorama’s ‘Undercover Care: The Abuse Exposed’; invoking mental states as a means of distancing from abusive practices

Patterson

Fyson

2016

Discourse & Society

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This paper draws upon discourse analytic techniques and discursive psychology to examine how care workers build accounts of viewing the BBC Panorama programme "Undercover Care: The Abuse Exposed" which graphically documented the abuse of people with learning disabilities in a residential care setting. 56 interviews were conducted as part of a project concerning adult safeguarding. The analysis considers how careworkers report their reactions and the interactional strategies they use to construct themselves as shocked and disbelieving and thus, as oppositional to the extreme practices in the programme. Their role as careworkers, and therefore as 'insiders' of the industry that allowed such abuse to happen, makes matters of stake and agency live issues for this particular group; and constructions of 'shock' and 'disbelief' are potential ways for participants to distance themselves from the abuse shown in the programme.More broadly, these data show how the invocation of mental states contributes to the management of other discursive business, namely, that of fending off any association with the aforementioned extreme practices.

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“…The partnership approach adopted in SCRATCHMAPS reflects a particular approach to power relations, specifically as it pertains to academy–community relationships. Partnership needs to be built on “respect” (see Patterson, Cromby, Brown, Gross, & Locke, ), and so requires a constant focus on knowledge and power, resources and power, participation and power, community dynamics, as well as research methodology challenges (Lazarus, Duran et al., ; Lazarus, Taliep et al., ; Nation et al., ; Seedat, ; Springett & Wallerstein, ).…”

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Community‐based Participatory Research as a Critical Enactment of Community Psychology

Lazarus

Bulbulia

Taliep

et al. 2014

Journal Community Psychology

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South Africa's history of colonization, expressed particularly through the violent system of apartheid, calls for participatory approaches to research and practice that aim to decolonize knowledge construction, transform modes of community engagement, and address dominant power relations. This article reflects on how these challenges are addressed in the Spiritual Capacity and Religious Assets for Transforming Community Health through mobilising Males for Peace and Safety project in a low-income community in the Western Cape, South Africa. This analysis focuses on some of the possibilities and challenges relating to using community-based participatory research as a community engagement strategy for the purposes of enacting critical community psychology in an African context. C 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.The effect of colonization and globalization on knowledge systems, research practices, and social development in Africa and other contexts has been recognized by many (Bishop, 2005;Brown-Acquire, 2011;Smith, 2005). In this respect, within South Africa's history of colonization, which has been expressed particularly through the violent system of apartheid, there is evidence of approaches to research and practice that endeavour to decolonize knowledge construction, transform exclusionary modes of community

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‘It all boils down to respect doesn't it?’: Enacting a sense of community in a deprived inner‐city area

Cited by 10 publications

References 44 publications

Social Capital and Community Group Participation: Examining ‘Bridging’ and ‘Bonding’ in the Context of a Healthy Living Centre in the UK

Social Capital and Community Group Participation: Examining ‘Bridging’ and ‘Bonding’ in the Context of a Healthy Living Centre in the UK

‘I was just gobsmacked’: Care workers’ responses to BBC Panorama’s ‘Undercover Care: The Abuse Exposed’; invoking mental states as a means of distancing from abusive practices

Community‐based Participatory Research as a Critical Enactment of Community Psychology

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