Community Development as Micropolitics : : Comparing Theories, Policies and Politics in America and Britain / / Akwugo Emejulu.
Community development is routinely invoked as a practical solution to tackle a myriad of social problems, even though there is little consensus about its meaning and purpose. Through a comparative analysis of competing perspectives on community development since 1968, this book critically examines t...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Complete eBook-Package 2015 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (192 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- About the author
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: what are the micropolitics of community development?
- Community development in a post-civil rights America
- When technocracy met Marxism: community development projects in Britain
- Community development and the rise of the New Right in America
- 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 America and Britain?
- References
- Index