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The Company of Neighbours: Revitalizing Community Through Action Research by J. Marshall Mangan, C.Kenneth Banks (Hardback, 1999)

The town of Hespeler in southwestern Ontario is an old industrial community that lost its core manufacturing businesses, its municipal status, and its civic pride in the time since the end of the Korean War. In the early 1990s, Banks and Mangan implemented a community-development, action-research project designed to rebuild and revitalize the town. This book illustrates the success of local citizens in the revival of their community and the discovery of a nascent network of mutual support among neighbours. The authors demonstrate how inquiry, education, and action-research can combine to form an effective model for engaged ethgraphic analysis. Their application of narrative inquiry to community-based research is new, and their conclusion that externally generated, imposed structure impedes community automy and responsibility is well supported. The book significantly expands the established theoretical framework of action-research and offers an exciting alternative to existing models of community development. The Company of Neighbours demonstrates a valuable approach for researchers, social workers, educators, and geographers in facilitating the collective efforts of people in local communities to shape the conditions of their own lives. With a new farmer's market, a museum in the revated train station, youth programs, and an invigorated Business Improvement Association, Hespeler is well on its way to a new identity.

Place of Publication
Toronto
Spine
16mm
Author Biography
C. Kenneth Banks is the director of the Family Service Institute in Toronto and an assistant professor of social work at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. J. Marshall Mangan is Assistant Professor of Education at the University of Western Ontario.
Date of Publication
01/04/1999
Country of Publication
Canada
Genre
Sociology & Anthropology: Professional

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