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Is partnership working? Complexities and barriers in the development of community safety practice in Wales
Community safety in England and Wales underwent significant change a quarter of a century ago when community safety partnerships (CSPs) were...
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Female Genital Mutilation in the Afar Community: A Practice Against Female’s Human Rights
Female genital mutilation is a widespread health risk and violates women’s and girls’ rights in many African countries including Ethiopia despite...
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Adapting Community Development Practice During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Collaborative Autoethnography of Community Practice in Trinidad and Tobago
The COVID-19 pandemic and the related public health restrictions have had a dramatic impact on the lives of people in communities. Public health...
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Sociologists in Italy Between Cultural and Normative Legitimization. The Failed Construction of a Community of Practice
The profession of sociologist in Italy has undergone the same ups and downs as the development of the discipline, which since its...
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Community and the Practice of Care
The areas that affect health extend beyond the hospital or clinic. This chapter explores health experiences in the context of community, family, and...
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Participation in Practice in Community-Driven Development Projects in Afghanistan: A Case Study of Herat City
Poverty, lack of volunteering culture, and low level of literacy are some of the problems that challenge the true engagement of local communities in...
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Ethnotherapeutic practice of entomophagy species by the ethnic community of Tangkhul, Mao and Poumai community of Manipur, NER India
Insects are important bioresources as they supply numerous tangible and intangible benefits to humans. Day-to-day livings of many communities in the...
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Applying the Urban Scene as Community Practice Approach in the Field
The chapter is based on extensive fieldwork carried out in three Polish cities and serves as an exemplification of the application of the approach...
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An action research on the establishment of a Community of Practice on technology-enhanced language learning and teaching at tertiary level
This study aims to explore how an effective cross-institutional Community of Practice (CoP) can be established to promote technology-enhanced...
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Language and Traditional Healing Practice: A Study of Limbu Community
Traditional knowledge has emerged from long-standing traditions and practices of indigenous communities. It also includes a wide variety of...
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Supporting Community Participation
Many people with intellectual disabilities remain excluded from communities and socially isolated despite decades of policies aiming at furthering...
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Community of practice as protofield: how sui generis habitus leads to radical change in organizational and social configurations
Pierre Bourdieu’s framework is well suited to explain reproduction and slow changes of organizational and social configuration. In this regard,...
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Community philanthropy as practice: A case study of Thousand Currents
As philanthropy has emerged to play a prominent role in supporting community well-being efforts, important critiques have been raised about the...
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Community Question: Classical Debates
The chapter provides an overview of the classical debates on community question. It discusses various approaches to community, comprehended as a...
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Social Work with Remote Indigenous Community in Indonesia: Policy, Service, and Practice
Indonesia is an archipelagic country with thousands of tribe community groups that in Indonesian terminology are called remote indigenous...
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Urban Scenes as Community Practices
In this chapter, a new praxeological, relational and cultural approach to the analysis of communal phenomena in contemporary cities is developed and...
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Bodies: Community and Identity
As this era ushers in a hyper-individualized technological paradigm promising targeted and precise information for law and medicine, the science...
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From a Community of Practice to a Community of Planning: The Case of the Sansheroes Network in the San Siro Neighbourhood in Milan
In the current framework of welfare shrinking, it is highly necessary to transform citizens and local organizations from targets into co-producers of...
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Seeking Disciplinary Relevance in the Informal City: Rebuilding Architectural Practice through Community Engagement
Building is a crucial act for residents of informal settlements. Notwithstanding this normative architectural practice finds it challenging to engage...
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Community Agency as Infrastructure for Cultural Responsiveness: Learning from the Success of a Socially Excluded Community of Mountain Jews
In Israel, as in many other countries, despite its policy of encouraging Jewish immigration, there is a relationship between migration and social...
