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Children’s participation: perspectives from community development

Children’s participation: perspectives from community development. Marilyn Taylor. Social capital: a health warning. Normative use Individual or collective? Context matters Ignores power Conceptually muddy. Governmentality. New spaces are inscribed with a state agenda Recentralisation

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Children’s participation: perspectives from community development

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  1. Children’s participation: perspectives from community development Marilyn Taylor

  2. Social capital: a health warning • Normative use • Individual or collective? • Context matters • Ignores power • Conceptually muddy

  3. Governmentality • New spaces are inscribed with a state agenda • Recentralisation • Responsibilisation • Privileged pathways

  4. Active subjects • Social movement theory Political opportunities bring: • New spaces • New resources • Alliances • Realignments that can bring new groups to power

  5. The role of social capital: the ‘well-connected’ community • Back to the past or forward to the ‘post-modern’ community • Networks as conduits of knowledge, agency and power • Bonding (glue), bridging (oil) and linking

  6. A social capital framework for community organizing Linking Bridging Bonding Partnership with external actors Independent Community services and assets Social action and campaigning Community infrastructure Community cohesion Community organizing Civic education

  7. Informality • Less explicit commitment • Shared narratives • Spaces around more formal structures • Abeyance structures • Adaptable and speedy But • Transient • Ephemeral • Unstable

  8. The implications for community practice • Fostering opportunities for engagement • Managing the balance between formal and informal at all levels • Working on both sides of the equation • Identifying opportunities and ‘cracks in the system’ • Working on the inside and the outside • The importance of social relays • A long-term perspective

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