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WHANAKE THE PACIFIC JOURNAL OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT VOLUME 2, EDITION 1 WHANAKE The Pacific Journal of Community Development Volume 2 Edition 1, 2016 EDITOR IN CHIEF Gavin Rennie DEPUTY EDITOR John Stansfield Whanake: The Pacific Journal of Community ASSOCIATE EDITOR Development is licensed under a Creative Helen Gremillion Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. ADVISORY BOARD Gavin Rennie, Denise Bijoux, Cover design by Penny Thomson Wheturangi Walsh Tapiata, Love Chile [email protected] EDITORIAL BOARD Photograph by Dianna Fuemana Sue Elliott, David Haigh, Helene Connor, Geoff Bridgman CONTacT [email protected] Founded at Unitec Institute of Technology Auckland, New Zealand, in 2015 ISSN 2423-009X THIS IS AN EPRESS PUBLICATION [email protected] www.unitec.ac.nz/epress/ Unitec Institute of Technology Private Bag 92025, Victoria Street West Auckland 1142 New Zealand CONTENTS ABOUT About this journal ........................................................................................................... 2 GUEST EDITORIAL Community Development: What’s in a name! .................................................................3 by JOHN STANSFIELD ARTICLES In the Context of Mobility, Social Identity and Belonging, Where is ‘Community’ and Why Does It Matter? ............................................................8 by KAREN FAGAN Using Results Based Accountability to Show Progress in a Long-Term Community Project ....................................................................................................... 19 by GEOFF BRIDGMAN and ELAINE DYER PRacTICE PAPER Avondate Creative Spaces: A Case Study in Community Building For Social Change ....... 39 by PAUL WOODRUFFE CONFERENCE REPORT IACD Practice Exchange India 2016 ................................................................................ 49 by JOHN STANSFIELD ANNOUNCEMENTS Whanake Special Edition - call for conference papers ....................................................54 WHANAKE - THE PACIFIC JOURNAL OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PAGE 1 ABOUT WHANAKE Whanake: The Pacific Journal of Community Development is a bi-annual ejournal for practitioners and academics who love community development. The journal mission is to serve as a crucible of democra- cy, where people come together to share their dreams and plan their common futures. It has refereed papers of 4000-6000 words, reviews, practice notes from the field, and opinion pieces. The journal pro- vides space for posing questions, documenting emerging trends in research and practice, and sharing case studies and biographies. Community development journals exist in the UK, USA and Australia. We see this as a journal for Ao- tearoa New Zealand and the wider pacific. As such it reflects cultural diversity and is about the WE, not the I. Gavin Rennie EDITOR IN CHIEF Unitec Institute of Technology DEPUTY EDITOR John Stansfield Unitec Institute of Technology ASSOCIATE EDITOR Helen Gremillion Unitec Institute of Technology Manages the review process for peer-reviewed articles, once reviews are in ADVISORY BOARD Gavin Rennie Unitec Institute of Technology Denise Bijoux Inspiring Communities Wheturangi Walsh-Tapiata Te Wānanga o Aotearoa Love Chile Auckland University of Technology EDITORIAL BOARD Sue Elliott Unitec Institute of Technology David Haigh Unitec Institute of Technology Helene Connor Unitec Institute of Technology Geoff Bridgman Unitec Institute of Technology WHANAKE - THE PACIFIC JOURNAL OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PAGE 2 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: WHAT’S IN A NAME! BY JOHN STANSFIELD Whanake: The Pacific Journal of Community Development is li- censed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. Founded at Unitec Institute of Technology Auckland, New Zealand, in 2015 This paper may be cited as: Stanfield, J. (2016). Community Development: What’s In A Name! Whanake: The Pacific Journal of Community Development, 2(1), 3-7 ISSN 2423-009X WHANAKE - THE PACIFIC JOURNAL OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PAGE 3 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: WHAT’S IN A NAME! ing clamour is emerging, calling for the rebuild- GUEST EDITORIAL BY JOHN STANSFIELD ing of the community behind the community development practice. COMMUNITY development, my second craft af- ANYONE who aspires to leadership in the com- ter automotive engineering, has been the love munity development sector is probably a can- of my life. It is a discipline that has nourished didate for the society of self-harm. We seldom me, entranced me and given me rich, reward- treat our leaders well; it’s part of our anarchic ing and colourful experiences that give meaning tradition. But anyone who aspires to leadership to life. stands on the shoulders of those who lead be- fore them. In my case they are broad shoulders In 2013, after a 10 year sojourn back in the field indeed and in his 76th year I name Gavin Ren- – including a stint as CEO of the Problem Gam- nie as the longest serving teacher, practitioner, bling Foundation, leading a social enterprise mentor and leader in my community of commu- in waste elimination and as advocacy director nity development practitioners. for Oxfam – I returned to Unitec as Head of the Department of Social Practice. I was keen to be I first met Gavin in the late 70s, when he was al- part of the renaissance of Community Develop- ready well established as a supervisor and men- ment in Aotearoa New Zealand and the broad- tor for young community development practi- er Pacific region. The greedy period of rampant tioners. A seasoned veteran of change within neoliberalism that swept across New Zealand the bureaucracy, Gavin was the first communi- carrying Maggie Thatcher’s epithet “there is ty development practitioner employed by the no such thing as society” had all but driven the then Waitemata City Council in Auckland, New discourse of community development from ac- Zealand. In 1976 we worked together in South ademic language. To speak its name was “ver- Auckland, amongst some of the city’s poorest boten” and as we witnessed the rise of more communities, struggling to de-colonise the so- fashionable terms like social enterprise and so- cial work profession. Together we built an or- cial bonds it seemed that the sun was setting ganisation to challenge the pathologising and on community development. Indeed if you had racist practice of the local health authority. asked me in the 1990s or first decade of this century to give an opinion on investment in Later in the mid-90s Gavin as an established ac- community development I would not have rat- ademic invited me to develop a graduate pro- ed its chances. gramme for community leaders and managers. He became my boss, a position to which few as- Something though has begun to change in the pire and fewer survive. fortunes of my beloved craft. When I returned to the academy in 2013 my old Little sentinels appear across the landscape that friend was still teaching, and regaled me of sto- bellwether a change. That most blokey and en- ries of the decline and rise of interest in popu- gineering place, the solid waste department of larity of community development amongst our my local Auckland Council, has begun to employ undergraduate and postgraduate students (at community development specialists. The jobs one point enrolments for his class were appar- feed that runs, banner like, across my computer ently down to one student – how he hid that every morning, has begun to signal a renewed from the Dean I will never know). faith, by employers, in the skills of community development practitioners. Meanwhile in inter- Gavin will retire this year from his academic role national development, Governments who had and has been nominated for the prestigious long since ceased to fund community develop- “Friend of Community Development” award ment at home but continued to invest abroad, conferred at the annual CDS conference to be are beginning to awaken to what works. A grow- held in Minnesota later this year. Our inaugural WHANAKE - THE PACIFIC JOURNAL OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT Page 4 editor for Whanake, this journal might not have the place where citizens come together to share been possible without his store of contacts and their dreams and plan their common futures.” bank of goodwill amongst practitioners across the land. Enterprises like academic journals and When I began back in the department we talked ACDA, our latest collaboration, rely on being about the fact that – despite not needing a solid able to excite others in a shared vision and this definition – there is risk that the body of knowl- issue of the journal is proof again that Gavin has edge and skill that is Community Development engaged some fine minds. might be lost or diluted if it was not celebrated, reinvigorated and protected. This journal was ONE OF THE other great things about having a formed to do just that. Fitting within a broad long-term mate like Gavin is that we’ve never framework of what Community Development really been too fussed about the perfect defini- should be, Whanake was born of wanting to tion for community development but are pretty create a place where citizens from across the sure what is not. Since being back in a universi- Pacific region can come together to share their ty environment, Gavin and I have spent much dreams and plan their common futures – safe time discussing the general context we wish guarding the many fine definitions that our to place discussion about community develop- community of practice has been built upon. Of ment within. There are