Community Development as Micropolitics: Comparing Theories, Policies and Politics in America and Britain

ISBN-13: 9781447313182 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 192 str.

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Opis

A critical examination of the contradictory ideas and practices that have shaped community development in the US and the UK. It exposes a problematic politics that have far-reaching consequences for those committed to working for social justice.

Spis treści

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; Privatising Public Life: Neoliberalism and the Dilemmas of British Community Development; Between Economic Crisis and Austerity: What Next for Community Development in Britain and America?; Bibliography.