This axis will question the professional territories of socio-cultural community work in a three-fold dimension: firstly, through delving into their relations with other professions, regardless of whether the latter belong to the field of social work or not. This axis will thus focus on the diversity of professions concerned with socio-cultural community work and their interdependence with ever singular contexts. The disengagement of the State results in placing the various institutions active in the field of socio-cultural community development in the midst of a competitive market this process has an impact on the methods to be utilised. The notion of territory also refers to public policies, whether local, national or international and thus to the social actors that mandate, frame or finance community development activities.
Here, the notion of territory pertains to the variety of intervention contexts that range from Northern to Southern countries and from rural to urban areas. This first axis pertains to questioning the ways in which contexts structure the range of potentials for socio-cultural community development. Modes of intervention change, as do collaborations with other social work or health professionals, and the social expectations faced by professionals evolve these changes have an impact on either broadening or restricting opportunities for community development.įour specific thematic axes will structure exchanges at the colloquium : In connection with the evolution of its target populations as well as of the context of its interventions, the very identity of socio-cultural community development, as well as its territories, give rise to many questions on the part of the authorities, of citizens and of professionals themselves. Moreover, it is found, under various names and designations, in many countries from the Southern to the Northern hemisphere. It thus is active in many kinds of territories, but is also acted upon by their specificities. The ways in which it is conceptualised by various stakeholders, be they professionals, volunteers, citizens, politicians or researchers.Ĭommunity development is declined in a broad range of modes it takes place in a variety of professional fields, intervenes with all types of populations of all ages, and mobilises a wide array of intervention methods. It has the goal of highlighting the current forms taken by socio-cultural community development, the territories in which it is deployed, as well as It is jointly organised by the Social Work sites of the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland (HES-SO). The Ninth Colloquium of the International Socio-cultural Community Development Network (RIA) intends to question, through the notion of « territory », the various issues and challenges confronting socio-cultural community development today.
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