A unique little microcosm”
Exploring a self‐sustaining community project which harnessed social action in a public space
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11044283 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hannah C Waters (0000-0001-5378-1566, The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, corresponding author), Sarah Davidson (0000-0001-7453-9779, British Red Cross) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 1045-1061 |
| Publication date | 2018-11-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Community Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-4392 • E-ISSN: 1520-6629 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/jcop.22090 |
| PMID | 30311966 |
| OpenAlex | W2806383812 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 41 |
Government policy in England encourages communities to capacity build from within. Community psychology has explored the role of community resilience in this process. But what happens if a community appears to lack formalized resources? This article considers such a community in which a grassroots community center thrives outside the boundaries of formalized community organizations. It aimed to find out how this community mobilized, the benefits for those connected, and how the center survives. A grounded theory ‘center as a living organism’ was constructed from the accounts of eleven participants. Results indicate how community centers play a role in promoting individual and community level well‐being and preventing distress. The importance of learning from progressive community initiatives and more partnership working between National Health Service, statutory, voluntary, and community groups is indicated. Effective engagement with and across communities to promote resilience and well‐being is also a theme of the responses to recent events in England, such as the terrorist attacks and the Grenfell Tower fire
Community building · Community engagement · Community organization · Community organizing · Community psychology · Community resilience · General partnership · Government (linguistics) · Grassroots · Political science · Politics · Psychological resilience · Public relations · Resource (disambiguation) · Sociology · Statutory law · Community Health and Development · Disaster Management and Resilience · Health Policy Implementation Science · Psychology · Public Administration · Social Psychology
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Inequality
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Citizen Participation and Community Organizations
Health by association? Social capital, social theory, and the political economy of public health
Handbook of theory and research for the sociology of education
Modernization and Postmodernization
Dilemmas in qualitative health research
Ways to make people active
Dimensions of community identity
Objective assessments of quality of life
Is economic adversity always a killer? Disadvantaged areas with relatively low mortality rates
Community Resilience as a Metaphor, Theory, Set of Capacities, and Strategy for Disaster Readiness
Toward Relational Empowerment
Fertile Ground for Community
Citizen participation and emprowerment
The components of resilience—Perceptions of an Australian rural community
Social Capital as Collective Narratives and Post-Disaster Community Recovery
Improving Pregnancy Outcome during Imprisonment
Coming Together for Action
Social Relationships and Health
Empowering Community Settings
Social and Psychological Resources and Adaptation
Sense of community
Objectivity and reliability in qualitative analysis
Poor people, poor places, and poor health
What constitutes a health-enabling neighborhood? A grounded theory situational analysis addressing the significance of social capital and gender
Toward a neighborhood resource-based theory of social capital for health
Tales of the unexpected? Hidden resilience in poor households in Britain
The Big Society' Fact or Fiction? - a Sociological Critique
Legitimacy, Strategy, and Resources in the Survival of Community-Based Organizations
Social Capital
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| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |