Abstract
ABSTRACT Neo-liberalism advocates theoretical and methodological approaches to community-based participatory research and development that are value-laden and liberal democratic. However, community-based development in the Guyanese gold and bauxite mining communities through community non-wage benefits is anything but liberal democratic. The social relations in these communities are microcosms of the class, race, and gender inequalities endemic in capitalist societies. These inequalities reflect the political and economic domination of workers by those who own and/or control the productive forces. Social unrest among the workers, however, pressures mining firms to improve the community non-wage benefits they supply. An alternative people-centred and bottom-up approach to community-based participatory development is needed to empower the inhabitants in the gold and bauxite mining communities.
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