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Community development in theory and practice : an international reader / edited by Gary Craig, Keith Popple and Mae Shaw.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Nottingham : Spokesman, 2008.Description: 348 p. : ill. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9780851247304 (pbk.) :
  • 9780851247304
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 307.14 CRA
Contents:
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.
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Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending 307.14 CRA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 209118
Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending 307.14 CRA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 209141
Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending 307.14 CRA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 209117

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.

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