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lessons for community-based transformation in the age of global crises
Front Cover -- Tomorrow's Communities: Lessons for Community- based Transformation in the Age of Global Crises -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- List of tables and figures -- Notes on contributors -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 The challenges for tomorrow's communities -- Communities under threat -- What can communities do? -- The transformation of socioeconomic relations in communities -- The transformation of collaborative behaviour with communities -- The transformation of policy outcomes by communities -- Lessons for tomorrow's communities -- References
Part A Transforming socioeconomic relations in communities -- 2 The case for community economic development -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 Reciprocity and alternative mediums of exchange -- A more humane way to measure growth and prosperity -- Conventional economics -- The core economy -- New technologies -- More time for social money -- Changes in the relationship between the state and communities -- Institutions and local action -- Moving away from a monetary model -- Trusting in the common good -- Helping people to help each other -- A framework for new learning in the community
Lessons learnt on how to facilitate the exchange of support -- Available -- Responsive -- Emotionally present -- Two case studies -- Croydon -- Torbay -- Conclusion -- References -- 4 Regeneration in partnership with communities -- Taking possession of revival -- The regeneration trajectory -- From scattergun to coordination -- Success and dissolution -- Deleting the community: an ill omen -- The shift to health -- The decimation of community infrastructure -- Can community practice handle it? -- The way forward -- References -- 5 Worker co-operatives and economic democracy
Insecure jobs and weakened communities -- Worker empowerment -- New approach to self-employment -- Technology for co-operation -- Smart and Green Taxis -- WorkerTech -- Workplace democracy and union co-ops -- Community wealth building, union co-ops and co-operative education -- Worker co-ops and economic democracy -- back to the future? -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Part B Transforming collaborative behaviour with communities -- 6 Four factors for better community collaboration -- Impediments to collaboration -- Incompatibility of purpose -- Imbalance of power -- Exclusionary practice
Weak infrastructure -- Examples of place-based collaboration -- Who gets to set the purpose? Examples -- How is power shared? Examples -- How effective is the involvement? Examples -- Where is the supportive infrastructure? Examples -- What might achieve better collaboration? -- A reframing of purpose -- A shift in power -- Adaptive and inclusive practices -- Connective infrastructure -- Acting urgently and building on the best -- References -- 7 The importance of community-based learning -- Community-based learning and popular education in the current context
Paulo Freire -- his theoretical roots, and his critics