Diversifying Experiences of Community and the Implications for Addressing Place-based Poverty

Abstract

The language of community is increasingly ambiguous yet the possibilities of cooperation in neighbourhood communities are central in many contemporary poverty reduction strategies targeting place-based disadvantage. Promoting neighbourhood community to redress socioeconomic disadvantage is emphasised at the same time that socioeconomic inequalities are acquiring marked spatial dimensions. In Australia, the implications of this for experiences of neighbourhood community have received limited attention. We present comparative analyses of perceptions of community in low-income and mixed neighbourhoods, and draw on related empirical and theoretical work to explore diversifying experiences of geographic community, and consider the implications for poverty reduction strategies targeting low-income neighbourhoods.

社区话语日益分歧，然而，当代旨在减少地区劣势的减贫策略有许多是以社区合作 为核心。一方面是促进社区解决社会经济劣势的问题，另一方面社会经济不平等的 空间日益扩大。在澳大利亚，这一事实在社区经验中并未得到应有的关注。本文对 低收入和混合社区的社区评价进行了比较分析，通过相关的实证和理论研究，探索 地理社区的不同经验，并就以低收入社区为目标的减贫策略提出建议。

Key words:

• Community
• low-income neighbourhoods
• socioeconomic marginalisation
• networks
• poverty