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Community Developers, the Hour’s Late

In the thirty or so years that I have been practicing rural community development, I constantly marvel at how my life’s work is a continuing process of learning and unlearning, discovery and rediscovery in response to a world of daunting changes.

The idea of rural community is slippery but incredibly important, if it is based on the place where we live and interact with people. But in a rapidly changing geopolitical economy, local relationships may or may not be important to individuals. Perhaps the place where people live should be important, and I like to think it is, but I am constantly reminded that although people live in a place, they may not engage in any meaningful way with others who live there.

These musings flow from my participation in the joint meeting of the Community Development Society and the International Association for Community Development, held July 25-28 in New Orleans. As I learned, or perhaps relearned, from some colleagues from the United Kingdom, the very notion of community development (CD) needs to be rethought in a rapidly changing world.

Timothy Collins

Full Story: http://www.dailyyonder.com/collins-what-uk-community-has-teach/2010/08/17/2894

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