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[[David Mason]]<br />
[[SCPA 503]]<br />
[[September 14, 2008]]<br />
[[Shragge]]<br />
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[[503 course pack - readings with asterisk are online]]<br />
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[[Social change]]<br />
[[Outcome]] s - change the process<br />
process [[vs]] . [[intervention]] - [[bottom-up]]<br />
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[[Positive]] view:<br />
CED: "successful, professional, innovative, flexible"<br />
social provision (with no [[welfare]] state)<br />
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[[Critical]] view: <br />
[[Demobilized]]<br />
[[Depoliticized]] - technical, not political<br />
Lacks critical vision<br />
Contributes to neoliberalism - less [[government]] to pick up pieces.<br />
Romantic view of [[community]] "Kumbaya communitarianism"<br />
Funding from external sources " [[the revolution will not be funded]]"<br />
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[[Insider]] - [[government]] [[allies]] .<br />
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[[Community]] practice - [[community]] development in [[US]] and UK<br />
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[[CED]] - [[social economy]] the "bottom line"<br />
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Truisisms "best things in life are free"<br />
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[[What are the levers to move power]]?<br />
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[[Sydney]] , [[Cape Breton]] - tradition of [[CED]] entrepeneurship<br />
Keynesian - [[government]] controlled<br />
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[[Models]] / [[Components]]<br />
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[[Rothman]] - Locality, planning, action<br />
[[Solonsky film - Chicago 1930s]]<br />
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Citizen's groups<br />
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Anti- [[technocrat]]<br />
Action/reflection<br />
Anger with purpose<br />
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[[research]] use of tech in [[CED]] <br />
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[[Background]]<br />
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Autonomy - [[harmony]]<br />
Charity - churches, [[English]] /French<br />
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[[book - City Below the Hill]]<br />
[[tour]] - l'autre Montreal<br />
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[[Quiet Revolution]] - rapid [[modernization]] <br />
reform - [[health]] , social, [[education]] <br />
from the top ( [[top-down]])<br />
[[Castonguay]] - [[health]] reform; [[1960-]] for [[public]] [[health]] ; [[2008]] [[against]] <br />
[[QR]] opposition - make demands<br />
[[counter-institutions]]:<br />
new kinds of social [[infrastructure]] <br />
welfare rights - anti-poverty gave poor people a voice<br />
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.<br />
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[[film - Citizen's Medicine]]<br />
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Local initiatives - winter [[employment]] (for seasonal [[worker]] s)<br />
[[divisive]] - some got [[money]] in new [[citizen]] 's orgs, some don't.<br />
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[[Social rights]] can be [[claimed]]<br />
[[Direct democracy]] - no [[election]] s. <br />
[[Women]] in [[lead]] ership roles.<br />
Tension between professionals and [[citizen]] s.<br />
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