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A Theoretical Framework for Communily-Based Development

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  • Paul Wilkinson

    (Depadment of Social Services, Province of Sasatchewan)

  • Jack Quarter

    (Ontano Insiute for Studies in Educaion)

Abstract

This study proposed a theory of community-based development based upon a case study of the Evangeline region of Prince Edward Island (Canada). Evangeline is a small Acadian community with an economy that is based upon an interrelated system of cooperatives. Since general theories do not provide compelling explanations of how the phenomenon of community-based development takes place in a particular situation, this study adopted an inductive approach. Using a tentative theoretical framework derived from the history of the region and from the community-based development research literature, the study investigated the actual formation process of four Evangeline cooperatives through interviews with the initiators, a review of relevant documents and participant observation by the first author. The framework developed in this study proposes that effective community-based development must include three essential elements: community consciousness; strategies of empowerment; and the establishment of supportive structures. Each of these elements has subcomponents that are essential for community-based development. For community consciousness, these are community attachments and a movement perspective; for empowering activities, these are involvement strategies and strategies of self-reliance; and for supportive structures, the subcomponents are community development organizations to mobilize community resources, and external government and non-government organizations responsive to community initiatives.

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  • Paul Wilkinson & Jack Quarter, 1995. "A Theoretical Framework for Communily-Based Development," Economic and Industrial Democracy, Department of Economic History, Uppsala University, Sweden, vol. 16(4), pages 525-551, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:ecoind:v:16:y:1995:i:4:p:525-551
    DOI: 10.1177/0143831X95164003
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    1. Howard Aldrich & Robert N. Stern, 1983. "Resource Mobilization and the Creation of US Producer's Cooperatives, 1835-1935," Economic and Industrial Democracy, Department of Economic History, Uppsala University, Sweden, vol. 4(3), pages 371-406, August.
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