KOMUNITNÝ ROZVOJ NA SÍDLISKÁCH

• Authors: Janto Juraj

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Community development in housing estates

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

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The study deals with community development as one of the possible approaches to the application of anthropological knowledge in practice. In the introduction, the author characterizes the development and its connection with the quality of life, which is part of the broader cultural and social context. For the theoretical understanding of this fact the concept of social (and cultural) capital of locality, based on the quality of human relationship as the premise for the regeneration and development of towns or villages is helpful. Practical application then offers the model of community development, based on the most important resource – residents themselves. This approach can be implemented in a variety of environments; one of them is a housing estate as the specific urban area. The author reflects his several years of experience in the NGO Centre for community organizing (development) in a position of community worker on the largest Slovak housing estate - Petržalka. The NGO was trying to build active citizen groups by community organizing in the first. This model is based on the strengthening of the residents, on pressure and conflict between stakeholders. After review of this approach (divided) NGO has passed to the cooperation model based primarily on collaboration and building partnerships – community development. The author offers a few examples of both approaches, and highlights the dilemmas which he met in the work. He concludes with potential contribution of graduates of Ethnology to this area.

Keywords

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DEVELOPMENT; SOCIAL CAPITAL; COMMUNITY; COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT; SLOVAKIA; HOUSING ESTATE

• Publisher: Institute of Ethnology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovak Ethnological Society, and Slovak National Museum - Ethnological Museum (in Martin)
• Journal: Etnologické rozpravy (Ethnological Disputes)
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 23
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 7 – 22

Contributors

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Janto Juraj

• Filozofická fakulta Univerzity Komenského v Bratislave, Katedra etnológie a muzeológie, Gondova 2, 814 99 Bratislava, Slovak Republic