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Politics, power and community development / edited by Rosie Meade, Mae Shaw and Sarah Banks.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Rethinking community development.
- Rethinking community development series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Community development.
- Community development--Political aspects.
- Power (Social sciences).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xv, 260 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol : Policy Press, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Presenting unique and critical reflections on international policy and practice, this book addresses the global dominance of neoliberalism. It examines the extent to which community development practitioners, activists and programmes can challenge, critique, engage with or resist its influence.
- Contents:
- Politics, power and community development: an introductory essay / Rosie R. Meade, Mae Shaw and Sarah Banks
- Part 1. Thinking politically. The politics of deploying community / Janet Newman and John Clarke
- Changing community development roles: the challenges of a globalising world / Sue Kenny
- Community organising and political agency: changing community development subjects in India / Manish K. Jha
- Part 2. Practising politics. Identity politics, community participation and the making of new places: examples from Taiwan / Yi-Ling Chen
- Community development, venture philanthropy and neoliberal governmentality: a case from Ireland / Niamh McCrea
- A shifting paradigm: engendering the politics of community engagement in India / Martha Farell and Rajesh Tandon
- The politics of diversity in Australia: extending the role of community practice / Helen Meekosha, Alison Wannan and Russell Shuttleworth
- The politics of environmental justice: community development in Ecuadorian and Peruvian Amazonia / Maria Teresa Martinez Dominguez and Eurig Scandrett
- The politics of democracy and the global institutions: lessons and challenges for community development / Niamh Gaynor
- Part 3. Politicising the future. Disability arts: the building of critical community politics and identity / Colin Cameron
- Service delivery protests in South Africa: a case for community development? / Lucius Botes
- Community development and commons: on the road to alternative economics? / Brigitte Kratzwald.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 01 Sep 2022).
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781447317418
- 1447317416
- 9781447317401
- 1447317408
- 9781447317395
- 1447317394
- 9781447317388
- 1447317386
- OCLC:
- 935112557
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