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Community Development Journal Advance Access first published online on September 18, 2007
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Community Development Journal, doi:10.1093/cdj/bsm047
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Bottom-up community development: reality or rhetoric? the example of the Kingsmead Kabin in East London

Andy Turner

Address for correspondence: email: turnersround{at}hotmail.com

This paper summarizes the results of a case study, emerging from the author's ten years as community development worker at the Kabin, a project on the Kingsmead Estate in Hackney, East London. Using a reflective practitioner approach, informed by the author's own experience and referring to focus groups and semi-structured interviews, the research identifies the significance of relationship in nurturing a bottom-up approach to community development. Research findings support the need for community development processes to reconnect with community-defined purposes, engaging with how power is utilized to nurture participation and radical social change. The case study is grounded in practitioner knowledge, promoting a more nuanced understanding of how a vital but not easily assimilated area of research can lead to change in the community, while confronting pressures to change and conform.

This article has been versioned to correct a sentence in the second paragraph of the introduction section which erroneously implied that the ‘Kingsmead Kabin’ community project was been opened in 1939 at the same time as the Kingsmead Estate. In fact it was opened in 1995.


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