[p2p-research] Fwd: Book : The Careless Society: Community and Its Counterfeits - by John L. McKnight

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson at gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:56 PM
Subject: Book : The Careless Society: Community and Its Counterfeits - by
John L. McKnight
To: Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>, Robin <robokow at gmail.com>


seems like an interesting book :

http://www.northwestern.edu/ipr/publications/community/careless.html

http://www.amazon.com/Careless-Society-Community-Its-Counterfeits/dp/0465091261

 The Careless Society: Community and Its CounterfeitsBy John L. McKnight
After 40 years of work in the urban neighborhoods of Canada and the United
States, McKnight paints a scathing picture of "how competent communities
have been invaded, captured, and colonized by professionalized services"‹
with devastating results.

Reciting a litany of lethal effects produced by service providers‹families
collapsing, schools failing, violence spreading, prisons swelling‹he charges
them with eroding the very soul of community. "The enemy is not poverty,
sickness, and disease," McKnight writes. "The enemy is a set of interests
that need dependency, masked by service."

The 17 essays in the book were written over a span of two decades. They
focus on four "counterfeiting" aspects of society: professionalism,
medicine, human service systems, and the criminal justice system. Each is
deemed counterfeit because it attempts to produce, provide, and manage care,
which is "the only thing a system cannot produce," says McKnight. He follows
these analysis with his own prescription for generating "authentic citizen
communities of care."




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