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100			_aBarrett, Gene et al.
245			_a"Naide es Profeta en su Tierra": community, civil society, and intervening institutions in rural Chile
260			_c2005
300			_ap.89-102.
362			_aSpring
520			_aIn this article we examine community level civil society in Chiloe, Chile. We look at the interface between community and the wider systemic environment in the community development process. Issues such as the paradox of community solidarity, culture of dependence, obstacles to grass-roots participation, and leadership are examined in the community context. These issues are set in relief against a systemic environment comprised of traditional municipal politics and modernist "intervening" agencies of the state. We refer to the case of one organization. Pro Rural, to examine the successes and failures of an interventionist strategy in Chile. Our central argument is that structural powerlessness, and dependent relations on the state, are reproduced through traditional cultural patterns in small community settings. These obstacles can be overcome through the development of leadership capacity and small project successes which in time stimulate new cultural patterns. The role of intervening organizations in this process is vital. But such organizations have to adopt a long-term, capacity-building strategy based on flexible and responsive relationship with their constituencies. - Reproduced.
650			_aCivil society - Chile
650			_aCommunity development - Chile
650			_aCommunity development
773			_aHuman Organization
909			_a64671
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