Empowering local communities as a form of good governance. Case study: the locality of Novaci through the lens of mental mapping.
Empowering local communities as a form of good governance. Case study: the locality of Novaci through the lens of mental mapping.

Part I

Summary/Abstract: Community ‘empowerment’ represents their habilitation to pursue their own economical and cultural interests in local administration (regardless of political party in power), aimed at community welfare as an effective entity in relation to particular interests of members. In international literature, community empowerment has been theorized by four additional concepts: independence, self-determination, national development through local development and self-reliance (Fetterman, 2001, 2005; Craig and Mayo, 2004; Alsop, Bertelsen and Holland, 2006). From the perspective of political sociology, community empowerment is one of the main formal aspects that the administration takes at communitarian level. In Durkheim’s sociology of normality, community empowerment is the safety frame in respect to anomy through which the individual can pursue its interests.

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