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doi: 10.1093/cdj/37.1.10pmid: N/A
The main characteristics of the institutional context of policy making in Ireland are examined and their more latent consequences for community development delineated. The emphasis on partnership at all levels, on nation and, ironically, on community , is shown to contribute more to the legitimation of the state than to the cause of community development. This has created difficulties in responding adequately to new policy issues such as redistribution and immigration. The case of Ireland is seen as merely an extreme example of the more widespread failure to discriminate adequately between the nature and appropriate functions of the community, the public sphere and the state. The development of the public sphere is stymied with the result that communities cannot democratically articulate their differences or develop a sense of agency and skills in self‐organization. Copyright Oxford University Press and Community Development Journal 2002 « Previous | Next Article » Table of Contents This Article Community Dev J (2002) 37 (1): 10-19. doi: 10.1093/cdj/37.1.10 » Abstract Free Full Text (PDF) Free Classifications Article Services Article metrics Alert me when cited Alert me if corrected Find similar articles Similar articles in Web of Science Add to my archive Download citation Request Permissions Citing Articles Load citing article information Citing articles via CrossRef Citing articles via Scopus Citing articles via Web of Science Citing articles via Google Scholar Google Scholar Articles by O'Carroll, J. P. Search for related content Related Content Load related web page information Share Email this article CiteULike Delicious Facebook Google+ Mendeley Twitter What's this? Search this journal: Advanced » Current Issue October 2015 50 (4) Alert me to new issues The Journal About this journal Publishers' Books for Review Rights & Permissions Dispatch date of the next issue We are mobile – find out more This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Journals Career Network Editor Professor Mick Carpenter View full editorial board Impact Factor: 1.174 For Authors Instructions to authors Online Submission Instructions Submit Now! Author Self-Archiving Policy P56qQ0myhZIZ9qtHtIIeI0jcYDo8lVt6 true Looking for your next opportunity? Looking for jobs... jQuery_1_11 = jQuery.noConflict(true); Alerting Services Email table of contents Email Advance Access CiteTrack XML RSS feed Corporate Services Advertising sales Reprints Supplements
doi: 10.1093/cdj/37.1.20pmid: N/A
This paper considers how well two rural traditions of Irish community development , one based on community councils the other on community cooperatives , conform to models of radical and pragmatic populist‐type collective action . Two simple models of radical and pragmatic populist‐type collective action are first outlined. We then explore the initial appearance of our two traditions, their ideologies, their organizational cultures, the sort of tactics they have relied on and how well they have fared in realizing their concrete aims. Each of our traditions is shown to gravitate more to pragmatic populist‐type collective action, though this is not unequivocally so across the board. Copyright Oxford University Press and Community Development Journal 2002 « Previous | Next Article » Table of Contents This Article Community Dev J (2002) 37 (1): 20-32. doi: 10.1093/cdj/37.1.20 » Abstract Free Full Text (PDF) Free Classifications Article Services Article metrics Alert me when cited Alert me if corrected Find similar articles Similar articles in Web of Science Add to my archive Download citation Request Permissions Citing Articles Load citing article information Citing articles via CrossRef Citing articles via Scopus Citing articles via Web of Science Citing articles via Google Scholar Google Scholar Articles by Varley, T. Articles by Curtin, C. Search for related content Related Content Load related web page information Share Email this article CiteULike Delicious Facebook Google+ Mendeley Twitter What's this? Search this journal: Advanced » Current Issue October 2015 50 (4) Alert me to new issues The Journal About this journal Publishers' Books for Review Rights & Permissions Dispatch date of the next issue We are mobile – find out more This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Journals Career Network Editor Professor Mick Carpenter View full editorial board Impact Factor: 1.174 For Authors Instructions to authors Online Submission Instructions Submit Now! Author Self-Archiving Policy P56qQ0myhZIZ9qtHtIIeI0jcYDo8lVt6 true Looking for your next opportunity? Looking for jobs... jQuery_1_11 = jQuery.noConflict(true); Alerting Services Email table of contents Email Advance Access CiteTrack XML RSS feed Corporate Services Advertising sales Reprints Supplements
doi: 10.1093/cdj/37.1.33pmid: N/A
Issues of state sponsorship of community development in the north of Ireland need to be ‘situated’ within the history of the state in conflict. This paper analyses the emergence of the community women's sector in the north within this context. The argument is made that the definition of women's roles in any modern conflict is a powerful ideological and political resource in the conflict, and in international responses to it. Funding for community development in the north has promoted the British state's ‘conflict management’ approach. Within this, the construction of women as ‘apart from the war’ is a political manoeuvre that benefits some women some of the time but does not aid the resolution of the conflict. It also obscures women's political agency.
doi: 10.1093/cdj/37.1.47pmid: N/A
The article examines the tensions between community development and community relations in the north of Ireland. It situates community relations strategies in terms of reconciliation – which is part of the logic of peace – and pacification which is part of the logic of war. It discusses the emergence and function of the community relations paradigm in the context of a particular understanding of the Northern Ireland statelet and its relationship to the British state in Ireland. The article argues that the state‐led community relations intervention has had a destructive impact on the integrity of community development and robbed it of its radical and transformative potential.
doi: 10.1093/cdj/37.1.60pmid: N/A
This article illustrates and discusses the experience of one community worker in interacting with the state. The challenges faced by state institutions when interacting with local communities are discussed and it is argued that for effective constructive interaction to take place between state and community organizations, both parties need to adapt their current structures. Finally the article offers some practical suggestions for the development of mechanisms that may facilitate effective state/community efforts to operationalize local partnerships.
doi: 10.1093/cdj/37.1.69pmid: N/A
‘State’, ‘development’ and ‘corporatism’ are mongrel concepts with many complementary and contending shades within the lateral ideology and practice of these key concepts. This paper aims to go beyond the rumbles of these lateral shades and remove so‐called ‘post‐modern reflexivity’ to demonstrate that the above‐mentioned concepts are essentially mutually reinforcing streams of envelopment. The principal argument that this paper intends to put forward is that ‘development’, ‘corporatism’, ‘state’, and other such mechanisms of organizing social change are indices of power over a given people due to the usual hegemony in the definition and articulation of reality. Such hegemony is equally not new; rather, it seems to be the symbolic trophy of empire builders, which contravenes the very meaning of ‘community’. Thus, ‘development’, ‘corporatism’ and other such intervention (interventions) for the ‘good’ of civilization are basically the ‘… irresistible imperative of power’ (Sbert, 1999, p. 196) which ultimately resides in the structure and idea of a controllable universe.
doi: 10.1093/cdj/37.1.80pmid: N/A
This article attempts to analyse some of the experiences of the Irish community and voluntary sector's participation in social partnership. The article explores the politics of social partnership and discusses the implications of participation in social partnership for the potential strategies and choices for the community and voluntary sector. It looks at the outcomes of that participation from the perspective of both its impact on income and other inequalities and its impact on the community and voluntary sector and its relationship with the state, other actors and internal relationships within the sector. Alternatives to social partnership are explored and the article concludes that, while limited, there are specific gains and reasons to ‘stay inside’. At the same time, we should be firmly focused on the ‘outside’ and on alternative alliances, tactics, visions and ideologies.
doi: 10.1093/cdj/37.1.91pmid: N/A
This paper explores a number of issues concerning the community development experience in Ireland by reference to concepts of the State and to issues of State development. It will explore the emergence of a new kind of civil society within Ireland in the 1990s, and the role played by community development in this process. It will argue that the development of civil society in the 1980s and 1990s, widely represented as an example of ‘rolling back the State’, was in fact quite the opposite. It will propose that the State's concern to expand its frontiers and to widen the terms of its engagement with previously more or less disconnected sectors or groups was the main agenda in local development. The paper looks at the ways in which concepts, such as partnership and participation have been institutionalized and embedded in the Irish State project. It will show how, in entering partnership with Civil Society in Ireland, the Irish State effectively extended its legitimacy in situations where legitimacy was strained.
doi: 10.1093/cdj/37.1.101pmid: N/A
This policy review deals with the current context for community development practice in the Republic of Ireland. It details social partnership as the new model of governance, which requires broad societal participation in decision‐making, and it reflects on some of the practical operational problems encountered with the partnership approach. The White Paper, ‘A Framework for Supporting Voluntary Activity and for Developing the Relationship between the State and the Community and Voluntary Sector’, that was published in 2000 is considered with respect to the objectives of community development agencies.
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