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Demystifying Power in Community Development Practice
International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies Pub Date : 2019-01-15 , DOI: 10.21315/ijaps2019.15.1.6
Anif Fatma Chawa , , Marty Grace ,

This article seeks to understand the issue of power as the root-concept of empowerment as the main objective of community development practices. The empowerment objective requires distribution of power to powerless people or community. This could be problematic if community development practitioners already have power over communities, including a mining company. This study examines to what extent the idea of empowerment could be embraced by the mining company in the implementation of the community development programmes as a part of its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) framework. This study also exhibits a model or mechanism by which the distribution of power can be conducted in community development practices. The study was conducted in a mining project located in a West Sumbawa district, Sumbawa Island, Indonesia. This study found that the company, in the powerful position, has used the power to secure its operations. It is shown from the tension between two different agendas of the mining company, including the production/commercial framework (with its primary focus on profits) and development agendas, emerged in the implementation of its community development programmes. The mining company has distributed its community development programmes to placate the protest actions of the local IJAPS, Vol. 15, No. 1, 153–181, 2019 Demystifying Power in Community 154 community. This has resulted in unintended impacts of these programmes including financial dependency and resistance of the local community to the company. This study, however, found the fact that the power could be distributed by employing an ongoing and comprehensive assistance model to increase capacity of the community to have control on their own development programmes. This model, in a limited way, has succeeded to empower the community in conducting their own development programmes independently.

中文翻译:

揭露社区发展实践中的力量

本文旨在理解权力问题是赋予权力的根本概念,这是社区发展实践的主要目标。授权目标需要将权力分配给无权的人或社区。如果社区发展从业人员已经对社区(包括矿业公司)拥有控制权,则可能会出现问题。这项研究考察了采矿公司在实施社区发展计划中将赋权的概念作为企业社会责任(CSR)框架的一部分的程度。这项研究还展示了可以在社区发展实践中进行权力分配的模型或机制。这项研究是在印度尼西亚Sumbawa岛西Sumbawa地区的一个采矿项目中进行的。这项研究发现,该公司处于有力的位置,已经利用其权力来确保其运营。从矿业公司的两个不同议程之间的紧张关系可以看出这一点,包括生产/商业框架(主要侧重于利润)和发展议程,这是在其社区发展计划的实施过程中出现的。该矿业公司已经分发了社区发展计划,以安抚当地IJAPS,Vol。3的抗议行动。15,15,No. 153–181,2019 154个社区的神秘力量。这导致了这些计划的意外影响,包括财务依赖和当地社区对公司的抵制。但是,这项研究 发现这样一个事实,即可以通过采用持续的,全面的援助模式来分配权力,以提高社区控制自己的发展计划的能力。这种模式以有限的方式成功地使社区有能力独立进行自己的发展计划。
更新日期:2019-01-15
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