Community Development - Research
The Gilets Jaunes and the New Social Contract
This book provides a lively account of the gilets jaunes, the yellow vest movement that has shaken France since 2018. Charles Devellennes assesses what lessons can be drawn from their activities and the impact for the contemporary relationship between state and citizen.
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The Settlement House Movement Revisited
A Transnational History
This book provides a historical approach to the study of the Settlement House movement in relation to developments in social welfare and the profession of social work across a range of nations.
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Populism, Democracy and Community Development
Using international perspectives and case studies, this book discusses the relationships between community development and populism in the context of today’s widespread crisis of democracy. Exploring the synergies and contradictions between populism and community development, it offers new ways of understanding and responding to populism.
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Co-Creation in Theory and Practice
Exploring Creativity in the Global North and South
This book analyses a diverse range of experiences of Co-Creation in neighbourhood settings across the Global North and Global South. It brings together a unique collection of researchers, artists, residents and policymakers, all exploring creative ways to address neighbourhood challenges and effect change towards more socially just cities.
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Community-based Learning and Social Movements
Popular Education in a Populist Age
Mayo demonstrates how, through popular education and participatory action research, communities can develop their own understandings of their problems. Using case studies that illustrate popular education approaches in practice, she offers pedagogies of hope and shows how communities can engineer impactful and democratic forms of social change.
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Communities, Archives and New Collaborative Practices
Using a wide range of case studies, this edited collection shows how community engagement and co-creation is challenging and extending the notion of the archive.
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Children Framing Childhoods
Working-Class Kids’ Visions of Care
Based on a unique longitudinal study and offering a critical visual methodology of “collaborative seeing”, this book shows how a diverse community of young people in Worcester, MA used cameras at different ages (10, 12, 16, 18) to capture the centrality of care in their lives, homes and classrooms.
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Imagining Regulation Differently
Co-creating for Engagement
This book innovatively explores how we can better apply a ‘bottom-up’ approach to the design of regulatory systems that recognise the capabilities, knowledge, passions and creativity of citizens in communities at the margins.
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Transforming Glasgow
Beyond the Post-Industrial City
Using a wide-range of interdisciplinary perspectives which examine the diverse issues of urban policy, regeneration and economic and social change, this book explores the transition of Glasgow from a de-industrial to a post-industrial city.
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Planning and Knowledge
How New Forms of Technocracy Are Shaping Contemporary Cities
This book uses an international perspective to look at the sources of conflict and cooperation between the different landscapes of knowledge driving contemporary urban change, and the rise of new technocracy in urban governance.
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Cultural Intermediaries Connecting Communities
Revisiting Approaches to Cultural Engagement
This book considers the importance of cultural intermediaries, analysing their role as mitigators of the worst effects of social exclusion and examining the necessity to engage communities with different forms of cultural consumption and production.
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Environmental Justice, Popular Struggle and Community Development
This book examines the dynamics of agency and solidarity in the ways in which community, development and environment interact in the pursuit of environmental justice.
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