Community Development as Micropolitics
Comparing Theories, Policies and Politics in America and Britain
By Akwugo Emejulu
Published
Jul 20, 2016Page count
192 pagesISBN
978-1447313182Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Policy PressPublished
Jan 14, 2015Page count
192 pagesISBN
978-1447313175Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Policy PressPublished
Jul 20, 2016Page count
192 pagesISBN
978-1447321385Imprint
Policy PressPublished
Jul 20, 2016Page count
192 pagesISBN
978-1447321392Imprint
Policy Press
Community Development as Micropolitics
Community development is routinely invoked as a practical solution to tackle a myriad of social problems, even though there is little consensus about its meaning and purpose.
Through a comparative analysis of competing perspectives on community development since 1968, this book critically examines the contradictory ideas and practices that have shaped this field in the US and the UK. This approach exposes a problematic politics that have far-reaching consequences for those committed to working for social justice.
This accessible book offers an alternative model for thinking about the politics of community development and so will appeal to academics, postgraduate students and community development workers.
Akwugo Emejulu is Lecturer at the Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh and Co-Director of the Centre for Education for Racial Equality in Scotland. Prior to entering academia, she worked as a community organiser, a participatory action researcher and a trade union organiser. Her research interests include the political sociology race, gender and grassroots political movements.
What are the Micropolitics of Community Development?;
Community Development in a Post-Civil Rights America;
When Technocracy Met Marxism: The Community Development Projects in Britain;
Community Development and the Rise of the American New Right;
From Radicalism to Realism: Rethinking Community Development in a Post-Marxist Britain;
Commodifying Community: American Community Development and Neoliberal Hegemony;
A Return to Critique? Reassessing Marxian Analyses in British Community Development;
Between Economic Crisis and Austerity: What Next for Community Development in Britain and America?;
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