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Community Assets in Changing Times : = Exploring Ownership Covid-19 and the Opportunity Context.

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,手稿 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Community Assets in Changing Times :/
其他題名:	Exploring Ownership Covid-19 and the Opportunity Context.
作者:	Skropke, Carina.
面頁冊數:	1 online resource (407 pages)
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-11, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International85-11B.
標題:	Sociology. -
電子資源:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9798382627564

Community Assets in Changing Times : = Exploring Ownership Covid-19 and the Opportunity Context.
Skropke, Carina.

Community Assets in Changing Times :Exploring Ownership Covid-19 and the Opportunity Context. - 1 online resource (407 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-11, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Sheffield Hallam University (United Kingdom), 2023.

Includes bibliographical references

Community ownership of assets describes a situation in which a community organisation owns or manages physical assets, such as land and/or buildings, on behalf of and for a local community. Such activity, which has a long history in England, has seen a revival in recent years, as policymakers and academics explore its relevance for current social, economic and environmental challenges. Proponents argue that community ownership of assets is a means to revive community empowerment; autonomous and participative decision-making; addressing local needs and preferences; and generating well-being and community cohesion, as well as compensating for shrinking public/welfare services. This explains the recent policy interest given the prevailing impulse for fiscal austerity and shrinking the size of the state. In this context community ownership has been approached as a valuable alternative and desired outcome of shifting public responsibilities away from state control. But what is the significance and importance of ownership for the individuals involved? How does ownership and the accompanying responsibilities impact on the local contexts, organisations and communities, particularly during acute crises like the Covid-19 pandemic? Nine community organisations owning physical assets were studied, four of them in depth. Applying a critical constructionist grounded theory approach, the experienced realities of the actors involved were reconstructed to shed light on the dimension and importance of ownership. Rather than these experiences being centred on ownership as such, the study finds that it is one factor among many others. As a distinct characteristic, ownership is important to the various organisations and communities, however, it only becomes beneficial and feasible when situated with other resources and factors which feed into an opportunity context. The study introduced this concept of *opportunity context' to enable a processual understanding of community ownership. The concept of the opportunity context is applied to analyse the impacts of the pandemic on these organisations that fundamentally rely on physical spaces to which access was denied; and to understand how the pandemic affected the various levels on which the respective opportunity contexts are shaped. The research reveals that approaching community ownership from a processual perspective allows a greater understating of how and why different outcomes emerge and are sustained. However, further investigations are needed into the roles of these assets in post-pandemic arrangements and how an optimal configuration of opportunities can be supported to design community ownership in ways which increase feasibility and enhance benefits.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2024

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798382627564Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Sociology.
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