LEADER 03363oam 2200493I 450 001 9910155035403321 005 20240505160619.0 010 $a1-315-22873-4 010 $a1-351-85701-0 010 $a1-351-85700-2 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315228730 035 $a(CKB)4340000000019365 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4756254 035 $a(OCoLC)965196674 035 $a(BIP)56714589 035 $a(BIP)57467141 035 $a(EXLCZ)994340000000019365 100 $a20180706d2017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aCommunity activation for integral development /$fRonnie Lessem 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aLondon :$cRoutledge,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (157 pages) $cillustrations, tables 225 1 $aTransformation and Innovation 300 $aIncludes index. 311 08$a1-138-70124-6 327 $apt. I. Southern grounding of community : livelihood, healing, truth quest -- pt. II. Eastern emergence of community : permaculture, vitality of place, disclose new worlds -- pt. III. Northern communal navigation : participatory action research, study circles, networks -- pt. IV. Western communal effect : build community, self-sufficiency, mutual development. 330 $aAs mass global and social media communications spread across the globe, we are seeing a need for a change in the way we approach issues of political and economic development. The effects of these growing communications are that, on the one hand, we see the significance of place rising, while on the other, marginalized people clamour to be heard and identities become increasingly threatened. We are quickly realizing that a 'one-size fits all' approach is not going to work. Despite more than half a century of attempts to address issues of development, we have seen fairly bleak results. In fact, the rising of economic stars, such as Japan and the Pacific Tigers hitherto, and China and India of late, have little to do with such programs of development or cultural studies, notwithstanding their accomplishment. Typically, such successes have developed top-down, with theories born and bred in the 'West' affecting,or maligning, practices in the 'rest'. The approach taken in this book looks at these developments by turning them on their head: instead, starting bottom-up with an emphasis on what the author terms 'community activation'. With a selection of case studies, this volume looks at where community activation can be found and explores how it could evolve and be of use in developing societies at large. In the process, he addresses such topics as how to embed development in a particular society, how to generate social and economic solidarity, and how to generate wealth from pre-industrial and post-industrial networks. This book provides a guide for readers on how to build community within their organization-and-society from the ground up. 410 0$aTransformation and innovation series. 606 $aEconomics 615 0$aEconomics. 676 $a330 700 $aLessem$b Ronnie.$0107583 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910155035403321 996 $aCommunity activation for integral development$92210843 997 $aUNINA