Power in Community: research and Social Action Scoping Study

本范围审查探讨了关于权力的学术辩论，并与社区讨论权力。在国家提出“脱离接触”的时候？社会和“权力？到社区，它审查社区的权力。学术辩论指出了理解权力的范式转变，从权力到权力。虽然并非所有的权力都是支配性权力，但支配性权力在实践中仍然是权力的常规形式。在与英格兰北部四个社会多样性社区的一系列群体交谈时，很明显，在那些寻求基层变革的人中，大多数人都理解非主导形式的权力，如合作，倾听，分享和授权他人。有人认为，非支配性的权力形式为建立参与和连接社区提供了最大的潜力。然而，它们并不是最有效的权力行动。那些使用它们的人拒绝传统的权力行使方式，最终可能会在边缘采取行动，放弃对更广泛影响的期望。因此，《范围审查》提出的问题是，非主导性权力形式如何能够在不复制主导性权力的情况下有效地改变权力和权力结构？

This Scoping Review explores the academic debate on power and talks with communities about power. At a time when the state is proposing to „disengage? from society and hand „power? to communities, it reviews power in communities. The academic debate points to a paradigm shift in understanding power, from power over to power to. Although not all power over is dominating power, the latter remains the conventional form of power in practice. In talking to a range of groups in four socially varied communities across the north of England, it became clear that amongst those seeking change at the grass roots, most understand power in non dominating forms, as about cooperation, listening, sharing and enabling others. Non dominating forms of power, it is argued, offer the best potential for building participation and connecting communities. However, they are not the most effective for acting on power. Those who use them reject the way power is conventionally exercised and can end up acting on the margins and giving up expectations of wider impacts. The Scoping Review asks, therefore, how can non dominating forms of power become effective in changing power and power structures without reproducing dominating power?