Divergence in Community Participation Policy: Analysing Localism and Community Empowerment Using a Theory of Change Approach

Community participation and empowerment in Healthy Cities.

Community participation and empowerment are core principles underpinning the Healthy Cities movement. By providing an overview of theory and presenting the relevant findings of evaluations, this article explores how cities in the WHO European Healthy Cities Network have integrated community participation and empowerment within their development. Reflecting the inclusion of public participation ...

a synchronic and diachronic approach to the change route of address terms in the two recent centuries of persian language

terms of address as an important linguistics items provide valuable information about the interlocutors, their relationship and their circumstances. this study was done to investigate the change route of persian address terms in the two recent centuries including three historical periods of qajar, pahlavi and after the islamic revolution. data were extracted from a corpus consisting 24 novels w...

Participation in Community Dance: a Road to Empowerment and Transformation?

his wife, ‘Bob’ participated in a series of dance workshops run by Motionhouse Dance Theatre in 2003–2004. He stated that dancing with his fellow inmates had given him the confidence to start to shed the machismo he had embodied until then. For him, dance had been a means to help him see a way out of the ‘mistakes’ he had made in his life.1 Such statements of positive change contribute to the i...

Embedded Foundations: Advancing Community Change and Empowerment

on translation of politeness strategies in dialogues involving female characters in translations and retranslations of novels translated before and after the islamic revolution of iran and their effects on the image of women: a polysystem theory approach

abstract reception environment has considerable effects on accepting a translation. as the expectations of a target culture and its values and needs change throughout history, its criteria for accepting a translation or rejecting it will change accordingly (gentzler, 2001). the expectations of iran, as the reception environment in the present study, have changed after the islamic revolution. i...