Children

1
Childrens participation perspectives from
community development

• Marilyn Taylor

2
Social capital a health warning

• Normative use
• Individual or collective?
• Context matters
• Ignores power
• Conceptually muddy

3
Governmentality

• New spaces are inscribed with a state agenda
• Recentralisation
• Responsibilisation
• Privileged pathways

4
Active subjects

• Social movement theory
• Political opportunities bring
• New spaces
• New resources
• Alliances
• Realignments that can bring new groups to power

5
The role of social capital the well-connected
community

• Back to the past or forward to the post-modern
  community
• Networks as conduits of knowledge, agency and
  power
• Bonding (glue), bridging (oil) and linking

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A social capital framework for community
organizing
Linking Bridging Bonding
Partnership with external actors
Independent Community services and assets
Social action and campaigning
Community infrastructure Community cohesion
Community organizing
Civic education
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Informality

• Less explicit commitment
• Shared narratives
• Spaces around more formal structures
• Abeyance structures
• Adaptable and speedy
• But
• Transient
• Ephemeral
• Unstable

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The implications for community practice

• Fostering opportunities for engagement
• Managing the balance between formal and informal
  at all levels
• Working on both sides of the equation
• Identifying opportunities and cracks in the
  system
• Working on the inside and the outside
• The importance of social relays
• A long-term perspective