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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...
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Volunteering Behaviors of People of Color in the US Communities: How Community Racial Composition Affects the Type of Organization People of Color Volunteer For
This paper investigates how community racial composition affects types of organizations people of color volunteer for. Specifically, we explore which...
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Engineering with Community
This chapter introduces an in-depth understanding of community and how traditional engineering problem solving (EPS) methods limit rich community...
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Feeling Community During War: Community Resilience of Ukrainian Women Refugees in Italy
Community resilience contributes to co** with the trauma of war and the difficulties associated with forced migration, promoting refugees’...
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The Experience of Epistemic Injustice in Volunteering: The Case of Community Organizations in Quebec
Community organizations aim to promote social and environmental justice but can still reproduce injustice in their participatory and decision-making...
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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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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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Understanding Community and Welfare
Society is frequently located within a media setting. Embedded with society is the concept of community. Many sociologist scholars, past and present,...
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The Specter of Gentrification in a Pan-Asian Immigrant Neighborhood: Community Development and Resistance to Displacement in Portland’s Jade District
Focusing on a low-income neighborhood of Asian immigrant settlement located at the eastern periphery of Portland, Oregon, this article traces the...
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Disaster Responses: The Role of Local Organization for the Orang Asli
Orang Asli is a disaster-affected ethnic community in Malaysia who needs disaster preparedness and response for making them disaster resilient. For...
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The International Community: A Brief for International Involvement
The international community can make significant contributions to enhancing the positive impacts of internal migrations within develo** countries....
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Community-Based Healthcare of the Elderly
The elderly mainly access hospitals for their health care needs. However, hospitalization often results in many unwanted adverse effects such as...
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Community Identity as an Indicator of Quality of Life: A Theoretical Model and Empirical Test
Within the realm of identity research, community identity has garnered attention from disciplines such as sociology, community psychology, and public...
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Modelling and Measuring Local Community Engagement (LCE)
Social engagement is changing considerably in its forms and objectives, and it is not always easy to understand this change. Engagement in the local...
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The Political Relationship Between the Community Development Association and the Grassroots Governance
The village (sub-district) is the most basic administrative territorial entity in Taiwan, serving as an extension of local government services to the...
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Think Globally, Act Locally? Evaluating Boston Climate Projects’ Community Engagement
Successful climate change mitigation, adaptation, and transformation will require a balance of bottom-up, community-led planning and engagement with...
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Landscape, space, and time: navigating the cultural landscape through socio-spatial and socio-temporal organization in rural Pakistan
This paper deals with landscape to examine the ways people associate meanings to their environment through the cultural perceptions of space and...
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Does rural women’s involvement with one more microcredit organization change any psychosocial and economic conditions in their lives? A study on northern Bangladesh
The purpose of this study was to assess the psychosocial and economic aspects of rural women engaged with one more microcredit organization of...
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Family Organization and the Domestic Group
While Chaps. 2 , 3 , and 4...
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Brazilian Community Health Agents’ Educative Work to Promote Social Transformation and Community Resilience
This chapter presents the validation of a conceptual framework about Brazilian Community Health Agents’ (CHAs) educative work. The role of CHAs as...