WSEAS Transactions on Environment and Development


Print ISSN: 1790-5079
E-ISSN: 2224-3496

Volume 14, 2018

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Volume 14, 2018



Community Participation in Urban Suburbs. The Italian Case of Z.E.N. Slum of Palermo

AUTHORS: Gioacchino Lavanco, Carolina Messina, Elisabetta Di Giovanni

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ABSTRACT: Based on Kurt Lewin s Action Research theory, the paper focuses on an Action Research project issued in Southern Italy, in the disadvantaged suburb of Palermo (Sicily), called Z.E.N., sadly famous as a dangerous and criminogenic urban slum, in order to stimulate social participation and to develop social change. The principal goal was the empowerment of ordinary inhabitants, obtaining their collaboration through participation, giving them acquisition of knowledge for a real social change.

KEYWORDS: Community Psychology, Empowerment, Social Participation, Urban Context, Palermo, Minority Groups.

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