After we've figured out our institutional systems, we may discover there are limits to what institutions can do for us in our pursuit of...
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When I read British tabloids their messaging around young people is unmistakable, young people: CAUSE PROBLEMS. HAVE PROBLEMS. ARE PROBLEMS. This is not peculiar to...
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I’ve had the privilege of seeing a lot of professional practitioners wrestle with the dilemmas that Asset-Based Community Development presents; serving while walking backwards...
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Medicine is the preeminent example of using science to interfere with chance and with just cause, at least some of the time. Two of my...
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Asset-Based Community Development is not a model, it is a description of how people join together - at hyper local level - to use...
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Society is often spoken of as if it has only two important dimensions; namely, individuals on the one hand and formal institutions on the...
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For those that could only be with us in spirit (and Twitter) on June 30th 2016 for the launch of ABCD in England, we...
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Once we were free, feral and tribal. We traded among our tribes using gift exchange and bartered with enemies and strangers. Then Pharaohs and their...
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John McKnight has a passion for jazz. Once a year he becomes a roadie for one week and travels on a bus with an...
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Have you ever watched room 101? The premise of the show is to invite a panel member to offer their frustrations, with a view...
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Have you ever watched room 101? The premise of the show is to invite a panel member to offer their frustrations, with a view...
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There are no experts on questions of judgement. Matters of judgement are civic challenges that cannot be unilaterally resolved in millimetres or economic units....
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