Neighborhood revitalization without the local: race, nonprofit governance, and community development

Bonds, Anne; Kenny, Judith T.; Wolfe, Rebecca Nole

doi:10.1080/02723638.2015.1049479

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“…Some civil society organizations operate as servicing social needs within communities that have been neglected-or even abandoned-by the state or, the market [1,3,4,5,6,7,19,23,26,37,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50,51,52,53,54,55,56,57,58,59,60,61,62,63,64,65,66,67,68,69,70]. They establish selfhelp dynamics [43,59,] and are part of the awakening social order that is able to have an "expanded sense of self" (following the new values of an aware and engaged citizenry by [26] and explore new social relations and new practices, as social innovation analysis in the TRANSIT project reflects.…”

Section: Civil Society As the Safeguard And Self-servicing Actor Of Smentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In this case, viewing civil society establishments as the "visible hand of the state" may demoralize and delegitimize individuals to create bottom-up civil society organizations, undercutting local democratic politics [105]. The overexposure resulting from (what could be considered) a capture of civil society organizations by the state can leave these actors exhausted and erode any potential of a grassroots mission [2,3,6,18,19,35,38,45,55,58,88,90,91,92,93,94,95,96,97].…”

Section: Unintended Effects Of the Three Rolesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Elucidating the changing roles of civil society in urban sustainability transitions

Frantzeskaki

Dumitru

Anguelovski

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Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

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Understanding the diversifying role of civil society in Europe’s\ud sustainability pathway is a valid proposition both scientifically\ud and socially. Civil society organisations already play a\ud significant role in the reality of cities, what remains to be\ud explored is the question: what is the role of civil society in the\ud future sustainability of European cities? We first examine the\ud novelty of new forms of civil society organization based on a\ud thorough review of recent case studies of civil society initiatives\ud for sustainable transitions across a diversity of European\ud projects and an extensive literature review. We conceptualize a\ud series of roles that civil society plays and the tensions they\ud entail. We argue that, civil society initiatives can pioneer new\ud social relations and practices therefore be an integral part of\ud urban transformations and can fill the void left by a retreating\ud welfare state, thereby safeguarding and servicing social needs\ud but also backing up such a rolling back of the welfare state. It\ud can act as a hidden innovator—contributing to sustainability\ud but remaining disconnected from the wider society. Assuming\ud each of these roles can have unintended effects, such as being\ud proliferated by political agendas, which endanger its role and\ud social mission, and can be peeled off to serve political agendas\ud resulting in its disempowerment and over-exposure. We\ud conclude with a series of implications for future research on the\ud roles of civil society in urban sustainability transition

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Section: Civil Society As the Safeguard And Self-servicing Actor Of Smentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Unintended Effects Of the Three Rolesmentioning

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Elucidating the changing roles of civil society in urban sustainability transitions

Frantzeskaki

Dumitru

Anguelovski

et al. 2016

Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

193

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“…Element 6 (neighborhood voice): There is wide support from the literature for the proposition that developing a broad coalition and building consensus among members is important to achieving goals established by any cross-sector initiatives or partnerships (Bonds et al, 2015 ; Hutson, 2013 ). To establish legitimacy, it is important for organizations to gain support from residents from the start and to deliver on promises so as to establish legitimacy and develop trust within the community (Bonds et al, 2015 ). Some authors assert that using (social media) networks produces the best results when trying to build community, strengthen social capital, access multiple perspectives, build and share knowledge and best practices, and mobilize people and resources around a given issue (Scearce et al, 2010 ).…”

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What Kind of Community Development System Can Effectively Support Citywide Philanthropic Efforts to Promote Community Well-Being?

Kim

2021

Int. Journal of Com. WB

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How can the efforts of philanthropic agencies be better supported to promote citywide community well-being? To address this question, this article uses a citywide, engagement-driven initiative led by local practitioners that took place in Detroit between 2016 and 2019. This article is based on the initiative's two main outcomes, namely the identification of seven elements of an effective community development system and a vitality framework designed to measure community progress and success. The author of this article conducted participant observation, interviews, and a literature review, as well as site visits to, and case studies on, four best-practice cities, and then used the outcomes to validate the results of the initiative. Informed by the outcomes of the initiative and the research, the article suggests how best to utilize the seven community development system elements and the vitality success framework effectively to support philanthropy that promotes community well-being. This article focuses on theory-building in Detroit and calls for empirical research to further validate the findings. The article provides useful insights into the benefits of community-based research and citywide engagement as essential components of an effective community development system that can coordinate philanthropic practice more effectively to promote community well-being.

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“…Though the official delineation is well acknowledged and applied [25], some scholars believe that neighbourhoods are largely social productions, e.g., refs. [26,27]. The social production school of thought, however, has been criticised on the grounds that it is inaccurate and biased, and overly subjective.…”

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Understanding the Concept of Neighbourhood in Kigali City, Rwanda

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Though the relevance of the concept of neighbourhood in both research and policy oriented circles is unquestionable, the concept remains contested and fluid, making its operationalisation a daunting task, particularly in practice. This study explores how the concept of neighbourhood has been operationalised in Kigali city and how the neighbourhood boundaries and typologies are defined. The paper dwells on the review of relevant literature, interviews with 25 practitioners and field observations. It is argued that neighbourhood conceptualisation in Kigali is both theory—it bears the common aspects of neighbourhood definitions—and practice driven, reflecting modernity and context. On the one hand, modernity suggests the desire of planning authorities to follow contemporary planning practices. Context, on the other hand, reflects the desire to tailor local policies to country specific challenges. While boundaries follow subjective, administrative and physical models, typologies tend to be overly physical, focusing mainly on housing structures. The study identified three conventional neighbourhood typologies—planned, informal and mixed types. Given the predominance of informal and mixed neighbourhoods, this study further argues that such areas form the ‘bedroom’ and ‘transit point’ for most lower- and middle-class workers, in addition to serving as a ‘laboratory’ for testing various social interventions. The study recommends a well-serviced mixed classification typology to foster a strong sense of belongingness.

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Neighborhood revitalization without the local: race, nonprofit governance, and community development

Cited by 68 publications

References 17 publications

Elucidating the changing roles of civil society in urban sustainability transitions

Elucidating the changing roles of civil society in urban sustainability transitions

What Kind of Community Development System Can Effectively Support Citywide Philanthropic Efforts to Promote Community Well-Being?

Understanding the Concept of Neighbourhood in Kigali City, Rwanda

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