{"id":1330,"date":"2009-07-19T16:59:21","date_gmt":"2009-07-19T16:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localenterprise.wordpress.com\/?p=859"},"modified":"2009-07-19T16:59:21","modified_gmt":"2009-07-19T16:59:21","slug":"knowing-bugger-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/2009\/07\/19\/knowing-bugger-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Knowing &#8216;Bugger All&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent a very pleasant afternoon recently in the offices of New Start Magazine researching what makes for an inspirational or transformational relationship and I came across this wonderful quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In my ethnographic work, with a head full of American methodologies and theory, I thought I knew a bit about local government, urban and social policy and the theory of community and activism.\u00a0 However, I knew as Betty was to tell me, &#8220;Bugger all!&#8221;.\u00a0 All I knew was learned, abstract and distinct from reality.\u00a0 Betty knew it from 60 years of lived experience.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;\"><em><strong>Neil McInroy<\/strong><\/em> <em>Chief Executive, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cles.org.uk\/\">CLES<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is why we need to have a process for community development that is not controlled by local government but by the lived experience of local people.<\/p>\n<div class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Posts\"><ul class=\"entry-meta\"><li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"An imaginary open letter: To those who would &#8216;engage&#8217; 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