Community Development for Social Change [Paperback]

Community Development for Social Change provides a comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of community development and associated activities, discusses best practice from global experience and links that to the UK context. The book integrates the realities of practice to key underpinning theories, human rights, values and a commitment to promoting social justice.

A range of practice models are described and analysed, including UK models, popular education and community organising, as well as a range of practice issues that need to be understood by community development workers. For example, strategies to promote individual and community empowerment, challenging discrimination, building and sustaining groups, and critical reflection on practice.

Finally, a range of case studies from the UK and overseas illustrates good practice in diverse contexts. These case studies are analysed with reference to the values of community development, the promotion of social justice and the underpinning theories. It is an essential text for those on community development courses as well as for a range of workers, including local government, national and local voluntary agencies, and community-based organisations.

Section 1 The Context of Community Development Work  1.1 Values and purpose of Community Development  1.2 Social Change  1.3 Human Rights: a framework for action  1.4 Anti-Oppressive Practice  1.5 A Globalised and changing world: the local impact  1.6 Living under Neo-Liberalism: challenges and opportunities  1.7 Community Development in the UK and how we got here  Section 2 Underpinning Theories  2.1 What is Community?  2.2 Gramsci / Hegemony and the nature of power  2.3 Freire and Critical Consciousness  2.4 Space lcQ