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THEMATIC

CFP 3 - Thematic: People Have the Power?: Community Power and Community Decision-making
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Sponsor: Community, Research, and Practice

Organizer: Sarah E. Stanlick, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Presider: Paul Draus, University of Michigan–Dearborn

Description: 

The papers in this session explore how power operates at the community level, who represents a community, and how communities build the power to influence decision-making. The communities examined in these studies vary and include coalitions, neighborhoods, schools, cities, and other collective groups. All serve as sites of contested power and exemplify communities’ recognition of, and responses to, social problems.

Papers:

“‘If You Put It on a Map, It Means a Lot More’: Place-Based Youth Participatory Action Research at an Urban High School,” Lauren E. Ashby, Syracuse University

“Community Power in Brooklyn: A Half-Century of the Good, Bad, and U,” Jerome Krase, Brooklyn College, CUNY and Judith N. DeSena, St. John's University

“Constructing Narratives for NIMBYs: Legibility and the Politics of Place,” AJ Golio, Tulane University

“Putting It All on the Map: A Community Storytelling Project in Detroit,” Paul Draus, University of Michigan–Dearborn

“The People’s Purse: Building Trust and Community through Participatory Budgeting,” Brittany Keegan, Virginia Commonwealth University - L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs, Victor Tan Chen, Virginia Commonwealth University and Matthew Slaats, Richmond City Council

“Toward Community-Led Redevelopment: The Kingsbridge Armory Campaign and Reconfiguration of Urban Governance,” Gladys C. Mbugua, Fordham University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

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