This week’s guest on Ratio Talks is Cormac Russell, one of the leading thinkers in community development. Cormac learned his trade with John McKnight, and Jody Kretzmann and other leading lights of the community development movement in Chicago, and the community power movement across the United States. Cormac is perhaps best known in the U.K. for ABCD -Asset Based Community Development- but his understanding of community is far deeper -such as his knowledge about community power- and his interests are much wider -for example his 2020 book Rekindling Democracy. Cormac’s work is now applied across the world.

Podcast regular Pritpal S. Tamber gives his reflections on Cormac’s comments. He brings the conversation back to the seminar work of S.Leonard Syme and, in particular, his early work on control.

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