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Contents
Sarah Banks
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Keith Popple
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Lynda Shevellar and Neil Barringham
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Jeroen Gradener and Mike de Kreek
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Pradeep Narayanan and Sowmyaa Bharadwaj
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Jennie Buchanan, Len Collard and Dave Palmer
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Satu Ranta-Tyrkk and Bipin Jojo
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Loretta Pyles
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Ann Hill and Gradon Diprose
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Peter Westoby
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List of figures and tables
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SERIES EDITORS PREFACE
Rethinking Community Development
Communities are a continuing focus of public policy and citizen action worldwide. The purposes and functions of work with communities of place, interest and identity vary between and within contexts and change over time. Nevertheless, community development as both an occupation and as a democratic practice concerned with the demands and aspirations of people in communities has been extraordinarily enduring.
This book series aims to provide a critical re-evaluation of community development in theory and practice, in the light of new challenges posed by the complex interplay of emancipatory, democratic, self-help and managerial imperatives in different parts of the world. Through a series of edited and authored volumes, Rethinking Community Development will draw together international, cross-generational and cross-disciplinary perspectives, using contextual specificity as a lens through which to explore the localised consequences of global processes. Each text in the series will:
promote critical thinking, through examining the contradictory position of community development, including the tensions between policy imperatives and the interests and demands of communities.
include a range of international examples, in order to explore the localised consequences of global processes.
include contributions from established and up-and-coming new voices, from a range of geographical contexts.
offer topical and timely perspectives, drawing on historical and theoretical resources in a generative and enlivening way.
inform and engage a new generation of practitioners, bringing new and established voices together to stimulate diverse and innovative perspectives on community development.
If you have a broad or particular interest in community development that could be expanded into an authored or edited collection for this book series, contact:
Mae Shaw | Rosie R. Meade | Sarah Banks |
Acknowledgements
This book developed from our initial ideas at Peters dining table in Brisbane in July 2014 to our discussions of the first and last chapters in Dublin in July 2018. The journey has seemed quite long and sometimes tortuous, but very worthwhile, as we have learnt much from the process and the people accompanying us along the way.
We offer profound thanks to all the contributors to the book, for hanging in there with our demands and deadlines, navigating the editorial pen, and stretching themselves into new spaces. We are also very grateful to Ian Martin, who has generously given one of his original paintings for the front cover. Finally, we would like to thank our editors at Policy Press, Isobel Bainton, Emily Watt and Sarah Bird, and the anonymous referees for their helpful advice and encouragement.
We each have particular acknowledgements to those who have helped us over the years:
Sarah: I would like to thank the many people, locally and internationally, who have contributed to the development of my practice and thinking about community development over several decades. I am particularly grateful to community members and workers in North-East England and colleagues and students at Durham University, including many cohorts of students on community and youth work programmes and members of the Centre for Social Justice and Community Action. These have provided fertile grounds for collaborating in growing ideas about ethics and communities.
Peter: Deep thanks to community members in numerous places over the past 30 years that have challenged me in everyday ethics work. Not always easy, but nevertheless, leading to growth. Many thanks too for colleagues and comrades in the Queensland and global community development community of practice that keep modelling ethical community development practice (walking the talk) and deliberating ethical dilemmas.