In a voice of their own : Urban Aboriginal community development

In search of alternatives, terventions, unequal power relations and many have investigated the possibility the economic violence of the capitalist of creating an economy in which the market economy created barriers to hu- state and the market participants are ac- man development and freedom (Sen countable to people (Korten 1998; 1999). [...] It is like the making of the piece of quilt community development is much more which remains to be attached to other likely to be successful if it is rooted in the pieces in the creation of the whole pat- reality of, and is the product of, the con- tern” (Smith 1986, 12). [...] They be- and to making copies of the final version came the makers of knowledge and we of the paper widely available in Winni- did not impose our conceptions of their peg’s inner city and beyond. [...] Here the emphasis is on the process and the dynamics of the We also asked each of the four prelimi- unfolding of Aboriginal people’s points of nary interviewees to provide us with a list view. [...] They expressed the concern that the research project should be undertaken in a way that was participatory and respectful, and that the project should leave something in the community, i.e., should contribute in some way to the community.