Abstract

OSORIO-PEREZ, Oscar. The concept of community in community intervention projects: Dissonances, opacities, and ruptures. Alteridades [online]. 2023, vol.33, n.65, pp.61-72.  Epub Nov 24, 2023. ISSN 2448-850X.  https://doi.org/10.24275/uam/izt/dcsh/alteridades/2023v33n65/osorio.

In this document, I suggest that Community research and intervention must go beyond conceptions based on chimeric models of community, defined as the group of people who share territory, history, customs, and interests. From an analytic-comparative perspective, theroots of the concept of community are explored, showing the heuristic capacity to think of it as a model of social relationship and intersubjective action. A structuralist approach is proposed for the understanding of all psychic, social, symbolic, and material relations; deter minants for the functioning and reproduction of the community and therefore, determine the field of action for Community intervention projects

Keywords : community; community approaches; community development; community research and intervention; collective representations.

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