Power in Community: research and Social Action Scoping Study

本文探讨了关于权力的学术辩论，并与社区讨论了权力问题。在政府提议“脱离”的时候？来自社会和手的“权力”？对于社区来说，它审查了社区的权力。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，但后者在实践中仍然是传统的权力形式。在与英格兰北部四个社会多样性社区的一系列团体的交谈中，很明显，在那些寻求基层变革的人中，大多数人都理解非支配形式的权力，如合作、倾听、分享和帮助他人。有人认为，非主导形式的权力为建立参与和联系社区提供了最大的潜力。然而，它们在行使权力方面并不是最有效的。那些使用它们的人拒绝权力的传统行使方式，最终可能会在边缘行动，放弃对更广泛影响的期望。因此，《范围审查》提出的问题是，在不复制支配性权力的情况下，非支配性权力如何能够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?