Elisheva Sadan
Empowerment
and Community
Planning
Translated from Hebrew by Richard Flantz
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To Yitzhak, Meir and Jonathan—with love.
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Table of Contents
Introduction to the E-Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Part One: Developing a Theory of Empowerment . . . . . . . . . 27
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Chapter 1: Theories of Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Chapter 2: Empowerment: Definitions and Meanings. . . . . 73
Chapter 3: A Theory of Empowerment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Part Two: Developing Empowerment Practice
in the Context of Community Planning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Chapter 4: Community Planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Chapter 5: Processes of Individual Empowerment
in the Context of Community Planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Chapter 6: Processes of Community Empowerment
in the Context of Community Planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Chapter 7: Community Planning
as an Empowering Professional Practice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
Additional References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345
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Introduction to the E-Book
The hard copy edition of this book was published in 1997 (two
more printings were made in 1999 and 2002) in Hebrew, under
the same title*. When the book was first published, both
empowerment and community planning were relatively
unknow