A Negotiation and Participation for Housing Management in Urban Community: Sociological Perspective
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The objectives of this research were 1) to study the negotiation of meaning of housing development in urban community, and 2) to investigate the participation between urban community’s representative and public organization responsible for housing development. This qualitative research used in-depth interview, participant observation, and focus group discussions. The key informants were divided into categories which corresponded to the studied phenomenon, and the number of key informants was 30 persons. The study area in this study was Khlong Lat Pha Chee Community, Bang Duan, Phasi Charoen, Bangkok. Regarding theoretical perspective, the sociological concepts of housing, and the participation concepts were taken into consideration as a framework to indicate the role of urban community’s representative in negotiation, and the participation in relationship structure of housing management in urban community.
The result showed that, first, the development of housing which allowed a community’s member to have ownership over a house and land permanently changed relationships in family and community. It helped increase psychological stability and social stability. Moreover, the development of community into strong social group could lead to the negotiation on right to public utility development which the political sector and the public sector focused on and prepared to support. Secondly, the participation of community’s members in housing management was proceeded in 2 significant ways. The first was the participation through an open space which community’s members could define the problems, solutions, and shared goal. However, in the dimension of flexibility of housing relocation management, the mindsets of supporting organization had to be adopted as the foundation of transition from a house to their permanently own house and land. The second was the participation through the empowerment network encouraging the community to be able to manage better quality housing.
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