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Download full textNancy Arden Mchugh; Samantha Kennedy; Ashley Wright – Metropolitan Universities, 2024
Extractive knowledge is prevalent in higher education community engagement. It is a type of epistemic injustice that is harmful to the historically and systemically minoritized communities and community nonprofits that many universities, particularly predominately white institutions, seek to engage. Extractive knowledge results from what we can…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Community Involvement, Power Structure, Ethics
Peer reviewedAmy Argenal – International Journal of Human Rights Education, 2022
Pulling from a participatory action research project with human rights activists in Myanmar, this article builds on post-colonial, decolonial and third world feminist theories (Abu-Lughod, 2002; Mahrouse, 2014; Mohanty, 2003; Mutua, 2001; Said, 1993; Weissman, 2004) around inherent power imbalances in international human rights work by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Civil Rights, Activism, Power Structure
Nix, Harold L. – 1970
Attention is focused upon the interstitial, or in-between, groups of organizations in the community, as well as upon the conjunctive or competitive nature of the relationships within them. An effort is then made to offer some modifications to the many classifications of types of community leaders and structures of community power. Attention is…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Community Characteristics, Community Involvement, Community Leaders
PELLEGRIN, ROLAND J. – 1965
THE MINORITY OF PEOPLE WHO OCCUPY THE TOP LEADERSHIP LEVEL IN COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES WERE DISCUSSED IN THIS PAPER. VARIOUS CONCEPTS OF THE COMMUNITY POWER STRUCTURE WERE REVIEWED, AND SOME RESEARCH FINDINGS WERE REPORTED ON A COMPARATIVE STUDY CONDUCTED IN THE POWER STRUCTURES OF THREE COMMUNITIES. FOUR ACTIVITY AREAS WERE STUDIED FOR EACH…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Board of Education Role, Community Involvement, Community Leaders
Tait, John L.; And Others – 1975
This paper focuses on defining and comparing four approaches for identifying the community's power actors. It outlines how professional change agents might use each of the four approaches to identify community power actors who are relevant for community development. The four approaches include the positional, the reputational, the decision-making,…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Change Strategies, Community Change, Community Development
Senderowitz, Judith; Hebert, Brenda – 1977
This how-to kit for conducting a survey on the positions women hold in local occupational and decision-making structures is divided into six sections. Section I provides an explanation of the survey and its goals. Section II includes several survey questions and practical tips for finding the answers for each of eleven categories: Law, education,…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Business, Community Involvement, Community Leaders
