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[[David Mason]]
[[SCPA 503]]
[[September 14, 2008]]
[[Shragge]]

[[503 course pack - readings with asterisk are online]]

[[Social change]]
[[Outcome]] s - change the process
process [[vs]] . [[intervention]]  - [[bottom-up]]

[[Positive]]  view:
	CED: "successful, professional, innovative, flexible"
	social provision (with no [[welfare]]  state)

[[Critical]]  view: 
	 [[Demobilized]]
	 [[Depoliticized]]  - technical, not political
	Lacks critical vision
	Contributes to neoliberalism - less [[government]]  to pick up pieces.
	Romantic view of [[community]]  "Kumbaya communitarianism"
	Funding from external sources " [[the revolution will not be funded]]"

[[Insider]]  - [[government]] [[allies]]  .

[[Community]]  practice - [[community]]  development in [[US]]  and UK

[[CED]]  - [[social economy]]  the "bottom line"

Truisisms "best things in life are free"

[[What are the levers to move power]]?

[[Sydney]] , [[Cape Breton]]  - tradition of [[CED]]  entrepeneurship
Keynesian - [[government]]  controlled

[[Models]]  / [[Components]]

	 [[Rothman]]  - Locality, planning, action
	 [[Solonsky film - Chicago 1930s]]
	
	Citizen's groups
	
	Anti- [[technocrat]]
	Action/reflection
	Anger with purpose

[[research]]  use of tech in [[CED]] 

[[Background]]

Autonomy - [[harmony]]
Charity - churches, [[English]] /French

[[book - City Below the Hill]]
[[tour]]  - l'autre Montreal

[[Quiet Revolution]]  - rapid [[modernization]] 
reform - [[health]] , social, [[education]] 
from the top ( [[top-down]])
[[Castonguay]]  - [[health]]  reform; [[1960-]]  for [[public]] [[health]]  ; [[2008]] [[against]]  
[[QR]]  opposition - make demands
[[counter-institutions]]:
	new kinds of social [[infrastructure]] 
	welfare rights - anti-poverty gave poor people a voice
	putting in place alternatives - [[Point St. Charles]]  - free [[clinic]] ,deal with sources of ill [[health]]  (wellness); mobilize social issues; food [[co-op]] s - all run by [[citizen]] s.

[[film - Citizen's Medicine]]

Local initiatives - winter [[employment]]  (for seasonal [[worker]] s)
[[divisive]]  - some got [[money]]  in new [[citizen]] 's orgs, some don't.

[[Social rights]]  can be [[claimed]]
[[Direct democracy]]  - no [[election]] s. 
[[Women]]  in [[lead]] ership roles.
Tension between professionals and [[citizen]] s.




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