Abstract

This paper presents findings from a historical study of community renewal, as it was articulated and operationalized in NSW, Australia in the period 1999–2006 to improve conditions on public housing estates. The key argument is that community practitioners need to pay closer attention to the power relations involved in actual interventions that claim to empower others. Further, it is argued that such an analysis is a crucial aspect of developing critical, reflexive and innovative forms of practice which have the potential to reconfigure power relations and open possibilities for new understandings of community. Case examples of the implementation of community renewal are included to show the tensions involved when practitioners engage in empowerment practices that are coercive in that they include the exercise of regulatory and disciplinary power. It is incumbent upon community work practitioners and those who educate aspiring practitioners to understand that policies and programmes utilizing community as a solution to social problems are not benign, nor are they necessarily solely politically expedient, although the dangers lay in conceiving and enacting them as such.

中文翻译：

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激活社区工作者的行为规范：赋予他人权力的做法中的紧张关系

摘要

本文介绍了一项有关社区更新的历史研究的发现，该研究是在1999-2006年期间在澳大利亚新南威尔士州阐明和实施的，目的是改善公共住房的条件。关键论点是，社区从业者需要更加关注参与声称能够赋予他人权力的实际干预措施所涉及的权力关系。此外，有人认为，这种分析是发展批判性，反思性和创新性实践形式的关键方面，这些实践形式可能会重新构造权力关系并为社区的新理解开辟可能性。包括了实施社区更新的案例，以显示从业人员从事强制性授权实践时所涉及的紧张关系，因为它们包括行使监管和纪律处分权。