| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
|
| Title Information: |
comparative perspectives |
| Alternative Intellectual Responsibility: |
KennySusan, 1946- |
| Alternative Intellectual Responsibility: |
ClarkeMatthew, 1969- |
| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
Palgrave Connect (Online service) |
| Place of Publication: |
New York |
| Published: |
Palgrave Macmillan; |
| Year of Publication: |
2010 |
| Description: |
1 online resource (xi, 269 p.) |
| Series: |
Rethinking international development series |
| Subject: |
Community development - |
| Subject: |
Infrastructure (Economics) - Environmental aspects - |
| Subject: |
Sustainable development - |
| Subject: |
POLITICAL SCIENCE - Public Policy - |
| Online resource: |
http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230298057An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| Notes: |
Description based on print version record. |
| Summary: |
The focus of most capacity building programs is poor and disadvantaged communities. However, the appropriateness of capacity building for these groups, whether located in 'developing' or 'developed' countries, is always presented as self-evident. In much of the discussion of 'how to' build capacity, critical questions regarding the determination of whose capacities are to be built, the methods by which capacity will be built and the consequences for wider relationships of those whose capacity is being built (and presumably for those whose capacity is being left to be built at another time!) are not investigated. A deeper understanding of the meaning, practice and potential of capacity building is required. This book challenges capacity building by critically interrogating its central ideas and practices. But it also considers the ways in which capacity building itself can challenge disadvantage and inequality, by offering a self-determining way forward for communities. |
| ISBN: |
9780230298057electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
0230298052electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
9780230233232hbk. |
| ISBN: |
0230233236hbk. |
| Content Note: |
Introduction; S. Kenny� & M. Clarke Developing Capacities and Agency in Complex Times, C. Miller Community capacity-building: Critiquing the concept in different policy contexts; G. Craig Capacity Building and Community Development; J. Ife Emergent Drivers for Building and Sustaining Capacity in Australian Indigenous Communities; J. Abdullah� & S. Young Re-imagining capacity building when participation is constrained: Illegal Burmese migrants in Thailand; M. Clarke Solomon Islands: Conflict and Capacity; H. Wallace Capacity building in Indonesia : building what capacity?; I. Fanany, R. Fanany� & S. Kenny Capacity building and urban regeneration in Dublin, Ireland; M. Share Capacity Building and Community Power; R. Stoecker Transition Towns and Community Capacity Building; P. Connors Conclusion: Critical Capacity Building; S. Kenny� & M. Clarke -- Introduction / Sue Kenny and Matthew Clarke Developing capacities and agency in complex times / Chris Miller Community capacity building: critiquing the concept in different policy contexts / Gary Craig Capacity building and community development / Jim Ife Emergent drivers for building and sustaining capacity in Australian indigenous communities / Jill Abdullah and Susan Young Re-imagining capacity building when participation is constrained: illegal Burmese migrants in Thailand / Matthew Clarke The Solomon Islands: conflict and capacity / Heather Wallace Capacity building in Indonesia: building what capacity? / Ismet Fanany, Rebecca Fanany and Sue Kenny Capacity building and urban regeneration in Dublin, Ireland / Michelle Share Capacity building and community power / Randy Stoecker Transition towns and community capacity building / Phil Connors Conclusion: critical capacity building / Sue Kenny and Matthew Clarke. |