Doing Community Economic Development
Challenging traditional notions of development, this collection examines bottom-up community economic strategies in a wide variety of contexts. It looks at community economic development as a means of improving lives in northern, rural, and inner-city settings, shaped by women and aboriginal people, and is aimed at employment creation for the poorest. The authors use a participatory research methodology, and the work discussed in this book is the result of broader, community-university research collaboration that focuses on the strengths and difficulties of participatory, capacity-building strategies for people affected by the competitive profit making forces of capitalism.-Abstracts of Public Administration, Development, and Environment 2009