Local comunity development in Galicia

Abstract

Firstly, after confirming the recent ernergence of the local actor and both the virtualities and paradoxes shown by the concept of Local Development rooted in Community Development cultura and tradition, we will deal with some of the typological features -those reaching not only archaic tradicional contexts but also modern ones- which define community social patterns. Secondly, we will present some theories about the connections between Local Development processes, taking into account the potentialities implied by the socio-territorial and cultural substrata in which they spring, and the innovating capacity of social actors to change reality. Finally, we will conclude this article by evaluating four different experiments: two of them took place in rural contexts and the other two in urban ones. We will establish some evaluating criteria about their vitality and reliability taking into account the levels of implication as well as the richness and diversity of the social actors involved in the process.