TY - GEN
T1 - Not in my Backyard!? Lessons from a Community Conflict
AU - Gupta, Srishti
AU - Dhanorkar, Shipi
AU - Carroll, John
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 ACM.
PY - 2021/6/20
Y1 - 2021/6/20
N2 - We present a case study of a local community debate about a land development proposal. The debate was not amicably resolved. It entrained an encampment, a lawsuit, a local electoral upheaval, and sustained outrage. It was a serious community conflict. Through a set of converging interviews and field visits with key actors from throughout the community, researchers reconstructed what happened, gathered diverse views about how and why it happened, and reviewed the shorter- and longer-term outcomes of the conflict. As can be true in significant conflicts, all participants can be seen as rational and well-intentioned, and some of the outcomes are clearly positive for the community. But the cost was high in terms of civility, trust, and community coherence. Implications include both insights into, and opportunities to re-conceive and redesign, local governance and planning policies, practices, and information support.
AB - We present a case study of a local community debate about a land development proposal. The debate was not amicably resolved. It entrained an encampment, a lawsuit, a local electoral upheaval, and sustained outrage. It was a serious community conflict. Through a set of converging interviews and field visits with key actors from throughout the community, researchers reconstructed what happened, gathered diverse views about how and why it happened, and reviewed the shorter- and longer-term outcomes of the conflict. As can be true in significant conflicts, all participants can be seen as rational and well-intentioned, and some of the outcomes are clearly positive for the community. But the cost was high in terms of civility, trust, and community coherence. Implications include both insights into, and opportunities to re-conceive and redesign, local governance and planning policies, practices, and information support.
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U2 - 10.1145/3461564.3461588
DO - 10.1145/3461564.3461588
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85109391098
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
SP - 234
EP - 244
BT - C and T 2021 - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Communities and Technologies
A2 - Cech, Florian
A2 - Farnham, Shelly
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 10th International Conference on Communities and Technologies: Wicked Problems in the Age of Tech, C and T 2021
Y2 - 21 June 2021 through 25 June 2021
ER -