Day: December 3, 2005
The Complexity of Engaging Communities
Introduction: For over 20 years I have pursued community, economic and sustainable development in peripheral regional communities in Atlantic Canada, North Eastern Scotland and most recently in Quebec, a province of Canada. Each of these regions has gone through some crisis or challenge or has been languishing in the wake of such events. A multitude […]
On Being a Stranger – feelings of aloneness
Several years ago when I was living and working in Scotland I happened upon an elderly woman, formerly from Newfoundland but by this time a long term resident of Scotland. An eccentric person she had come to Scotland as a nurse and was, at that particular time, in the midst of writing a thesis in […]