Community Development

A Critical and Radical Approach

Margaret Ledwith (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2020 | 3rd New edition
Policy Press (Verlag)
978-1-4473-4817-7 (ISBN)

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A fully updated edition of this bestselling textbook offers a radical approach to community development taking theories of Gramsci and Freire into the current context. The focus is on putting theory into action for those training, working or managing any social justice practice.

The fully updated third edition of this bestselling book offers a radical approach to community development. Building on the theories of Gramsci and Freire, new ideas are introduced which offer an inspiring approach to practice for all those committed to social and environmental justice.
Neoliberalism has created a dangerous escalation of economic inequalities with inevitable environmental consequences. Practice needs to be informed by analyses of power, and links are made using international case studies, cartoons, and key concept summaries.

Margaret Ledwith lives in Lancaster where she is Emeritus Professor of Community Development and Social Justice at the University of Cumbria. She is also a coordinator of the international Collaborative Action Research Network.

Opening thoughts: Community development in neoliberal times;
Power and the political context;
Changing the story;
Radical community development and the role of stories;
Radical community development in action;
Researching with the community;
The power of ideas;
Critiques of Freire and Gramsci;
Taking Freire into intersectionality;
Reclaiming the radical agenda.

Erscheinungsdatum	17.01.2020
Verlagsort	Bristol
Sprache	englisch
Maße	172 x 240 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
ISBN-10	1-4473-4817-6 / 1447348176
ISBN-13	978-1-4473-4817-7 / 9781447348177
Zustand	Neuware