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Discourses of sustainability: Grassroots organizations and sustainable community development in Central Appalachia.

机译:可持续发展的话题:中阿巴拉契亚的基层组织和社区的可持续发展。

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This dissertation examines Appalachian struggles for sustainable community development in three Central Appalachian counties: Letcher County, Kentucky; Lee County, Virginia; and Athens County, Ohio, former coal-economy counties where nonprofit grassroots and community-based organizations are leading the efforts to achieve economic, environmental and social sustainability. This study focuses on issues of sustainable community development, specifically on how grassroots organizations (GROs) construct a discourse of sustainability, the intersection of nonprofits, social capital, and community development and assesses the success of community sustainability programs in the case study counties.;This study examines four (4) central research questions: (1) How do Appalachian grassroots and community-based organizations discursively define "sustainability?" How do these discourses differ from or resemble mainstream discourses of sustainability, specifically discourses of sustainable community development, in current academic theory and government programs? (2) What are the roles of grassroots organizations (GROs) and community-based organizations (CBOs) in this process? In other words, how do they affect and/or are affected by sustainable community development efforts? (3) how are GRO and CBO sustainability efforts hampered or enabled by governmental efforts and policies? How is power employed in this context to affect discourses of sustainability and community development? (4) Why have some GROs and CBOs and their projects been more successful at sustainability efforts than others? That is to say, why have some of these organizations been able to articulate a sustained and coherent discourse of sustainability, and then been able to achieve to some extent the goals to achieve this vision of sustainability that they have set for themselves?;I utilize several qualitative methods in this study: discourse analysis, interviewing, participant observation and comparative case study analysis. Participant-observation of grassroots organizations involved in the struggle for sustainability allowed me to observe first-hand the actions and internal discourse(s) of these groups as they engaged in local struggles for sustainability, and to some extent, experience the "lived reality" of these struggles. The study concludes with five principles for GRO success in struggles for sustainability which emerged from a grounded theory developed from the research.
机译:本文考察了三个阿巴拉契亚中部县的阿巴拉契亚人为实现社区可持续发展而进行的斗争:肯塔基州莱彻县;弗吉尼亚李县;俄亥俄州的雅典县和以前的煤炭经济县,那里的非营利性基层组织和社区组织正在领导实现经济,环境和社会可持续性的工作。这项研究的重点是社区可持续发展问题,特别是基层组织(GRO)如何构建可持续发展的论述,非营利组织,社会资本与社区发展的交汇点,并评估案例研究县社区可持续发展计划的成功。这项研究研究了四个(4)核心研究问题:(1)阿巴拉契亚基层组织和社区组织如何在话语上定义“可持续性”?在当前的学术理论和政府计划中,这些话语与主流的可持续性话语,特别是关于可持续社区发展的话语有何不同? (2)在此过程中,基层组织(GRO)和社区组织(CBO)的作用是什么?换句话说,它们如何影响和/或受到社区可持续发展努力的影响? (3)政府的努力和政策如何阻碍或促进了政府总组织和国会预算办公室的可持续发展努力?在这种情况下如何利用权力影响可持续性和社区发展的话题? (4)为什么某些GRO和CBO及其项目在可持续发展方面比其他项目更成功?就是说,为什么这些组织中的一些组织能够阐明可持续性和连贯性的论述,然后又能够在某种程度上实现实现他们为自己设定的可持续性愿景的目标?本研究中的几种定性方法:话语分析,访谈,参与者观察和比较案例研究分析。参与可持续性斗争的基层组织的参与者观察使我得以亲身观察这些群体在当地为可持续性而斗争中所采取的行动和内部话语,并在某种程度上体验了“鲜活的现实”这些斗争中。该研究总结了GRO在可持续发展斗争中取得成功的五项原则,这些五项原则源于该研究的基础理论。

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  • 作者

    Rice, Christopher Scott.;

  • 作者单位

    University of Kentucky.;

  • 授予单位 University of Kentucky.;
  • 学科 Political Science General.;Environmental Sciences.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 2002
  • 页码 398 p.
  • 总页数 398
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
  • 中图分类 政治理论;环境科学基础理论;
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  • 入库时间 2022-08-17 11:46:29

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