Doing community economic development /

"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." - Provided by Publisher

Call Number: 
HN49 .C6 D65 2007
Title Responsibility: 
edited by John Loxley, Jim Silver and Kathleen Sexsmith.
Author Information: 
John Loxley is Professor and former head of the Department of Economics at the University of Manitoba. He specializes in international finance, international development and community economic development. Jim Silver is a Professor in the Department of Urban and Inner-City Studies at the University of Winnipeg. Jim is a member of the Manitoba Research Alliance and the leader of the Housing and Neighbourhood Revitalization stream of its SSHRC Partnership project, “Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty.” Kathleen Sexsmith is studying international development at the University of Oxford.
Production Place: 
Halifax, N.S. :
Producer: 
Fernwood Pub.,
Production Date: 
c2007.
Band Tribe Geography Time: 
Multiple Nations
Recommended For: 
Research
Catalogue Key: 
6296502
Law Subject(s): 
Business Organizations
Public Policy
Table of Contents: 
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