ILRLR 4052

Making Development Equitable: Community Control in the New Economy

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2017-2018.

This course examines the emergence of community-based organizations as agents of economic development, emphasizing their actions to introduce an alternative approach to development that stresses the equitable outcomes needed to sustain communities, and assessing their role in reconfiguring development goals and practices to form the "social economy" in the US and around the world. To investigate the capacity-building and programmatic initiatives undertaken to control local/regional development, the course utilizes a comparative case study approach, along with direct interactions with practitioners from Buffalo's Partnership for the Public Good.

When Offered Fall or spring (weeks 1-7).

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