Download or read book Community Activation for Integral Development written by Ronnie Lessem and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-12 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Typically, development studies have evolved top-down, with theories born and bred in the 'west' affecting practices in the rest. This book looks at these developments by turning them on their head: instead starting bottom-up with an emphasis on what the author terms Community Activation. With a selection of case studies, this volume looks at where community activation can be found and explores how it could evolve and be of use in developing societies at large. In the process he addresses such topics as how to embed development in a particular society, how to generate social and economic solidarity, and how to generate wealth from pre-industrial and post-industrial networks.