TY - BOOK AU - Craig,Gary AU - Popple,Keith AU - Shaw,Mae AU - Craig,Gary TI - Community development in theory and practice: an international reader SN - 9780851247304 (pbk.) : U1 - 307.14 CRA PY - 2008/// CY - Nottingham PB - Spokesman KW - Community development KW - Social research & statistics KW - thema N1 - Includes bibliographical references; Introduction: Community development, contestations, continuities and change. Marjorie Mayo -- 1.Community development in Britain? Peter du Sautoy -- 2.Social welfare and its place in developing Africa. Malcolm J. Brown -- 3.Whither community development in Canada? Jim Lotz -- 4.Linking community development in Canada. Richard Bryant -- 5.The major issues and future dierection of community development. T. R. Batten -- 6.Looking ahead: community work in the 1980s. Pual Waddington -- 7.Participation in development in North-East Brazil. Peter Oakley -- 8.Community action and anti-poverty strategies: some transatlantic comparions. Martin Loney -- 9.Reviewing the direction of community development in Singapore. S. Vasoo -- 10.From social welfare to community development: Maori policy and the Department of Maori Affairs in New Zealand. Augie J. Fleras -- 11.Confronting gender, poverty and powerlessness: an orientation programme for and by rural change agents. Sundari Ravindran -- 12.Ideology: the bridge between theory and practice. Jennifer Sayaer -- 13.Community groups in Qubec: from radical action to voluntarism for the state? Jean Panet-Raymond -- 14.Street and state in community work: some developments from the past 20 years. Ad Raspe -- 15.Community work and the state. Gary Craig -- 16.The grass is always greener: political structure and economic development in the United States. Peter B. Meyer and Robert Kraushaar -- 17.Critical issues in community participation in self-help housing programmes: the experience of FUNDASAL. Alfredo Stein -- 18.WIll politically-inspired community work be evident in the 1990s? Jane Dixon -- 19.The case of the third wolrd: people\'s self-development. Md. Anisur -- 20.Reconstruction to deconstruction: the transformation of community work in Australia. Helem Meekosha and Martin Mowbray -- 21.The politics of equality or the politics of difference? Locating black communities in Western Society -- 22.The trajectory of national liberation and social movements: the South African experience. Vivienne Taylor -- 23.The role of NGOs in democratisation and education in peace-time Rwanda. C. Nungwa Kuzwe -- 24.The enviromental crisis, Greens and community development. Crescy Cannan -- 25.Community work, citizenship and democracy: remaking the connections. Mae Shaw and Ian Martin -- 26.Community development work in Belgium. Gerard Hauteker -- 27.Gendered micro-lending schemes and sustainable women\'s empowerment in Nigeria. C. Otutubikey Izugbara -- 28.Left to their own devices? Community self-help between alternative development and neo-liberalism. Erhard Berner and Benedit Phillips -- 29.Conceptualizing community development in war-affected populations: illustrations from Tigray. Alastair Ager, Alison Strang and Behailu Abebe ER -