Take your partners and face the music : the State, community groups and area-based partnerships in rural Ireland

Curtin, Chris; Varley, Tony

doi:10.3406/irlan.1997.1375

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“…LEADER is described as ‘enabling a better understanding of the area and its living strength’ (CEC ) and as ‘an innovation and a lever of innovation’ (LEADER European Observatory ). Curtin and Varley (, p. 141), summing up the rationale of the LEADER programme, observe ‘The challenge in the new partnerships, as officially perceived, is essentially to invent new institutions which not only can mediate and get beyond conflict by providing representation to a wide span of local interests, but can be an effective means of developing local economies’.…”

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Governance and Rural Development: The Case of the Rural Partnership Programme (RPP) in Post‐Socialist Lithuania

Macken‐Walsh

Curtin

2012

Sociologia Ruralis

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The aim of this article is to contribute to the debate on how governance and rural development may operate in the alternative political setting of Central and Eastern Europe. Presenting a case study of a UK‐funded Rural Partnership Programme (RPP) implemented in the Ukmerge District of Lithuania, crucial determinants on the operation of the governance and rural development model that arise from characteristics of the post‐socialist rural environment are identified and discussed. Three channels of influence on the operation of the RPP in this post‐socialist case study District are explored: the recent period of transition; historical experiences of socialism; and local variations within the Ukmerge District.

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Governance and Rural Development: The Case of the Rural Partnership Programme (RPP) in Post‐Socialist Lithuania

Macken‐Walsh

Curtin

2012

Sociologia Ruralis

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“…EU policy has largely been concerned with the problems of exclusion from employment and the partners in this One of the most important features of this text is that it avoids presenting any simple dichotomy between urban and rural, but instead shows the variability of different rural areas by illustrating some of the complex web of factors that combine to determine rural life chances and economic prosperity. The authors approvingly cite the work of Curtin and Varley (1997) to emphasise the weakness of narrow territorial approaches to rural development:…”

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European Journal of Social Work

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“…In practice, the governance and rural development approach aims to harness the capacity of local stakeholders and give them a voice in identifying, designing and implementing locally-appropriate development interventions (Curtin and Varley 1995;Ray 1999). According to the EC bureaucratic literature, the potential of the LEADER programme is largely hinged on expected contributions from local representatives to the development process.…”

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Operationalising Contemporary Rural Development: Socio-Cultural Determinants Arising from a Strong Local Fishing Culture

Macken‐Walsh

2012

Hum Ecol

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A transition to programmes adopting a governancebased approach in encouraging value-added and innovation in rural economies is often described as offering new opportunities for marginalised rural communities that have not benefited from top-down development policies. In practice, however, it is noted in Ireland and elsewhere in the EU that traditional fishers and farmers have been slow to engage in economic activities favoured by contemporary policies. I discuss how traditional small-scale fishing communities can be estranged from contemporary rural development policies that are focused primarily on providing high value-added serviceoriented and processed goods. I approach the problem of poor integration of fishing communities by focusing on how contemporary rural development programmes -though shrouded in language of local participation, governance, and indigenisation -can fail to actively engage with indigenous socio-cultural identity and resources. Exploring how intricate human ecological relationships involving custom and local knowledge of physical resources are not readily commoditised, I raise questions in relation to some of the central claims of the governance and rural development model, such as that it has the capacity to empower and generate confidence through locally appropriate economic activity.

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Take your partners and face the music : the State, community groups and area-based partnerships in rural Ireland

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Governance and Rural Development: The Case of the Rural Partnership Programme (RPP) in Post‐Socialist Lithuania

Governance and Rural Development: The Case of the Rural Partnership Programme (RPP) in Post‐Socialist Lithuania

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Operationalising Contemporary Rural Development: Socio-Cultural Determinants Arising from a Strong Local Fishing Culture

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