| Abstract: | ABSTRACT This article utilizes the key themes of the just practice perspective (Finn &Jacobson, 2003ab) to examine a fifty-year history of community practice in La Victoria, a poor urban sector of Santiago, Chile. The author employs five key themes-meaning, power, context, history, and possibility-in exploring the challenges, contradictions and possibilities for community building under dictatorship and democracy. Lessons for critical community practice learned from La Victoria's history are addressed. |
