Overview

Community development has become the new buzz in the social and health sciences. Although community development has been an important subject for deliberation and study for several decades, within the past ten years or so it has become politically correct and even fashionable to include mention of community development in government parlance, economic planning, social work, public health debates and liberal arts discourse. Whereas most texts on community development make only brief reference to the importance of theory, thereafter quickly dispensing with it, in this book, the approach taken to community development positions itself against that trend. The issues raised in the chapters of this book offer us alternative ways of looking at the familiar. This book inform us that community development is a complex conundrum of definitions, ideas, ideologies, interests, data, participants and locations.

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Author:   Dejan Ozegovic ,  Linda J Carroll ,  J Peter Rothe
Publisher:   Nova Science Publishers Inc
Imprint:   Nova Science Publishers Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 26.00cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 18.00cm
Weight:   0.760kg
ISBN:  

9781612096292

ISBN 10:   1612096298
Pages:   326
Publication Date:   26 January 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Introduction: Strong Headwinds; Social Frames of Knowledge as Barriers & Stumbling Blocks; A Holistic Framework for Seeking Knowledge in Community Development: The Complementarity of Looking In & Looking At; Respecting Oral Tradition: Sharing Circles for Indigenous People; Accelerated Social Change: Impacts on Community Development; Including Voices of the Excluded: Lessons from Buffalo, NY; Community Work Today: Contested Rationalities, Competing Practices; Enhancing Community Development Through Empowerment of Women; Resilience & Coping: ""I"" Concerns or ""We"" Concerns? Falling Through the Community Development Cracks; Where Are the Quail at Quail Run? How Labelling Creates Paradoxes for Community Development; Karl Polanyi & the Community Development Movement: The Local Politics of Embeddedness; A Tale of Two Community Development Projects: Community Engagement, Local Knowledge & Power Relations."

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A widely published scholar, Peter Rothe has a rich background in analysing the social behavior engaged in risk, safety and injury. He has directed major qualitative research studies in a variety of fields and is a Senior Research Associate and Assistant Professor with the Alberta Centre for Injury Control and Research at the University of Alberta.

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