
community development reader
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Content
- Intro
- The community development reader
- Contents
- Sources of extracts
- Acknowledgments
- Section I
- Introduction: community development in the United Kingdom
- Section 2: In and against the state: 1950s to the late 1970s
- Introduction
- 2.1: The non-directive approach in group and community work
- The directive approach: planning and providing FOR people
- The non-directive approach
- Conditions necessary for self-directed action
- The worker's role in groups
- The worker's role with individuals
- The potential advantages of the non-directive approach
- Its limitations
- Factors affecting choice
- 2.2: Working with community groups: using community development as a method of social work
- Forms of leadership
- Stages of group development
- The worker
- The agency
- 2.3: Rules for radicals: a pragmatic primer for realistic radicals
- Prologue
- The process of power
- 2.4: Community as fact and value
- Community as a value in the sociological tradition
- Community and the whole man
- Community and social divisions
- Community and the loss of political involvement
- Community: the British tradition
- Freedom, individualisation and the loss of community
- 2.5: Community development: a radical alternative?
- Where has the notion of community development sprung from?
- Community development as applied in contemporary United States and British urban situations
- 2.6: Community participation: past and future
- Changing people
- Changing institutions
- Criticisms of participation
- Planning and accountability
- Democracy
- Authenticity
- The future of participation
- 2.7: Gilding the ghetto: the state and the poverty experiments
- 2.8: In and against the state
- Anger, resistance and the making of socialism
- Holding to what we have learned
- Section 3: In and against the market: mid- to late 1970s to early 1990s
- Introduction
- 3.1: Community action over local planning issues
- Introduction
- Conflict over office development policies
- Conclusion
- 3.2: The boundaries of change in community work
- Community work in the interjacence
- The community group
- 3.3: Change and conflict: a defence of local community action
- The social planning approach to community work
- A defence of local community action
- The radical left approach
- Social control and the welfare establishment
- Conclusion
- 3.4: Racism: the response of community work
- Prejudice
- Racism
- Discrimination
- 3.5: The difference between education and organizing
- 3.6: The politics of participation
- The marginalisation of participation
- Participation and power
- Resolving the paradox of participation
- Conclusion
- 3.7: Equality and difference - what's in a concept?
- Introduction to the debate
- Conceptual and theoretical issues
- New theorising - implications for practice
- Community practice - difference and equality
- Crossing boundaries
- Conclusion
- 3.8: Women in the community: feminist principles and organising in community work
- Feminist principles of organising
- The relevance of feminist principles of traditional community work
- Introduction
- 4.1: Education, conflict and community development in Northern Ireland
- Introduction
- Community development in the 1970s
- The role of government
- Community development in the 1980s and 1990s
- The role of education
- Conclusion
- 4.2: Models of community work
- Community care
- Community organization
- Community development
- Social/community planning
- Community education
- Community action
- Feminist community work
- Black and anti-racist community work
- Conclusion
- 4.3: Community development at the crossroads: a way forward
- Introduction
- Community development at the crossroads
- Structure and agency: the role of practitioners
- Community development as the new vision
- What future for community development
- Change and the individual
- Community development as a process for welfare intervention
- The extension of democracy
- The repoliticisation of public life
- 4.4: When 'active citizenship' becomes 'mob rule'
- 4.5: Inequalities in health: contested explanations, shifting discourses and ambiguous policies
- Introduction
- The health inequalities debate
- Contemporary models: overlaps and discontinuities
- Discourses of inequality
- Redistributionist discourse (RED)
- Moral underclass discourse (MUD)
- Social integrationist discourse (SID)
- Shifting discourses
- 4.6: The significance of global citizen action
- Lessons for good practice
- Challenges for the future
- 4.7: Whose problem? Disability narratives and available identities
- Oppressive images
- Disability arts
- An affirmative model of disability
- Conclusion
- 4.8: The changing terrain of multi-culture: from anti-oppressive practice to community cohesion
- 4.9: Community capacity-building: something old, something new.?,2
- Introduction
- The nature of 'community'
- The practice of community development
- Community capacity-building: scope and definitions
- Capacity and partnership
- A critique of community capacity-building
- Conclusion
- 4.10: Reclaiming the radical agenda: a critical approach to community development
- Introduction
- The policy context
- A radical agenda
- Critical praxis
- 4.11: Community participation in the real world
- The theory: from government to governance
- Transferring responsibility downwards
- Becoming active subjects
- The implications for government and communities
- Communities
- 4.12: Community development and the politics of community
- The problem of community
- Community as 'fact' and 'value'
- The contrived community
- Community as possibility
- Conclusion
- Afterword
- References
- Index
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