Community-ness of a major economic development effort in a biracial community of Alabama |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Psychiatry, Saint-Joseph University, Beirut, Lebanon;2. Ministry of public health, Lebanon;3. Department of Nursing, Saint-Joseph University, Beirut, Lebanon;4. Department of Pediatrics, Saint-Joseph University, Beirut, Lebanon;5. Department of Epidemiology, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon;1. Faculty of Medicine and Medical Sciences, Holy Spirit University of Kaslik (USEK), Jounieh, Lebanon;2. INSPECT-LB: Institut National de Sante Publique, Epidemiologie Clinique et Toxicologie, Beirut, Lebanon;3. Ecole Supérieure des Affaires, Beirut, Lebanon;4. Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sante Publique, Rennes, France;5. Psychiatric Hospital of the Cross, Jal Eddib, Lebanon;6. Faculty of Pedagogy, Université de la Sainte Famille, Batroun, Lebanon;7. Faculty of Pharmacy, Lebanese University, Beirut, Lebanon;8. Faculty of Medicine, Lebanese University, Beirut, Lebanon;1. Teaching and Research Unit of Energetic Processes, Polytechnic Military School, BP 17, Bordj El-Bahri, 16046 Algiers, Algeria;2. Laboratoire de Thermodynamique et Modélisation Moléculaire, Faculté de Chimie, USTHB, BP. 32 El-Alia, Bab-Ezzouar 16111, Algiers, Algeria;1. Department of Agricultural and Environmental Science – University of Bari Aldo Moro, Via Amendola 165/A, 70126 Bari, Italy;2. Department of Technology and Innovation – University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M, Denmark;3. Department of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences – University of Perugia, Borgo XX Giugno 74, 06121 Perugia, Italy |
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| Abstract: | This paper uses case study data from a rural biracial community in Alabama to examine the community-ness of a major economic development effort and selected aspect of the ‘growth machine’ hypothesis. Results of the study suggest that the major economic development effort in the community was not a community-related action. In general, the findings provide support for some of the contentions of the growth machine model. Indeed, community can be an arena of action rather than a cohesive acting unit as posited by the ‘growth machine’ hypothesis and political economy models of community power put forth in the last two decades. The local elites utilized the community as a tool for the pursuit of personal gain at the expense of a majority of local residents. Capitalist development is divisive and the community, as (Molotch (1976) American Journal of Sociology 82(2), 309–332, 10) says, can be a ‘growth machine’ serving not the common good but the interests of those who manipulate that machine for profit. The implications of the findings for the future of biracial rural communities are discussed. |
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