Challenging traditional notions of development, these essays critically examine bottom-up, community economic development strategies in a wide variety of contexts: as a means of improving lives in northern, rural and inner-city settings; shaped and driven by women and by Aboriginal people; aimed at employment creation for the most marginalized. most authors have employed a participatory research methodology. The essays are the product of a broader, three-year community-university research collaboration with a focus on the strengths and difficulties of participatory, capacity-building strategies for those marginalized by the competitive, profit-seeking forces of capitalism. no easy answers are offered, but many exciting initiatives with great potential are described and critically evaluated.
Price: $35.00
Pages: 264
Publisher: Fernwood Publishing
Imprint: Fernwood Publishing
Publication Date:
01 April 2008
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9781552662212
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development
John Loxley is a professor of economics and coordinator of research in the Global Political Economy Program at the University of Manitoba. His previous books include Alternative Budgets: Budgeting as if People Mattered and Transforming or Reforming Capitalism: Toward a Theory of Community Economic Development. Jim Silver is a professor of politics, chair of the department of politics, and codirector of the new Urban and Inner City Studies Program at the University of Winnipeg. He is the author of In Their Own Voices: Building Urban Aboriginal Communities. They both live in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Kathleen Sexsmith is an international-development student at the University of Oxford.
: Introduction (Silver & Loxley)
: The State of CED in Winnipeg (Loxley)
: The Impact of Hydroelectric Development on Grand Rapids, Manitoba (Kulchyski & Neckoway)
: Government Policy towards CED in Manitoba in the 1960s and 1970s (Fernandez)
: Social Housing and CED Initiatives in Inner-City Winnipeg (Skelton, Selig & Deane)
: Urban Aboriginal Community Development (Silver, Ghorayshi, Hay & Klyne)
: Improving the Lives and Livelihoods of Women through Socially Transformative Practice (Amyot)
: CED to Reduce Young Women’s Poverty and Poverty-Related Conditions (McCracken)
: Moving Low-Income, Inner-city People into Good Jobs (Loewen & Silver)
: Can Call Centres Contribute to Manitoba’s CED? (Guard)
: Aboriginal Students and the Digital Divide (Deane & Sullivan)
: Aboriginal Labour and the Garment Industry in Winnipeg (Weist & Willmott)
: Aboriginal Employment in the Banking Sector in Manitoba (Sexsmith & Pettman)
: Manitoba Alternative Food Production and Farm Marketing Models (Doucette & Koroluk)
: Agricultural Land Trusts (Hamilton)
: Economics for CED Practitioners (Loxley & Lamb)
: Local Participation and Democratic State Restructuring (Sheldrick)
: Reflections on Accomplishments and Challenges (Loxley & Silver)
