Funding, Power and Community Development / / ed. by Niamh McCrea, Fergal Finnegan.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol UP/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• MitwirkendeR: Balazard, Hélène,; Banks, Sarah,; Bender, Lin,; Finnegan, Fergal,; Fisher, Robert,; Flader, Ulrike,; Gagyi, Agnes,; Goggin, Niamh,; Gürer, Çetin,; Ivancheva, Mariya,; Kohl-Arenas, Erica,; Majumder, Sarasij,; Makongo, Japhet,; Mayes, Robyn,; McCrea, Niamh,; Meade, Rosie R.,; Mueller-Hirth, Natascha,; Murtagh, Brendan,; Sen, Debarati,; Shaw, Mae,; Thapa, Rita,
• HerausgeberIn: Finnegan, Fergal,; McCrea, Niamh,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Rethinking Community Development
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)

This edited collection critically explores the funding arrangements governing contemporary community development and how they shape its theory and practice. International contributions from activists, practitioners and academics consider the evolution of funding in community development and how changes in policy and practice can be understood in relation to the politics of neoliberalism and contemporary efforts to build global democracy from the ‘bottom up’. Thematically, the collection explores matters such as popular democracy, the shifting contours of the state-market relationship, prospects for democratising the state, the feasibility of community autonomy, the effects of managerialism and hybrid modes of funding such as social finance. The collection is thus uniquely positioned to stimulate critical debate on both policy and practice within the broad field of community development.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Contents -- Preface Rethinking Community Development -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Notes on contributors -- Funding, power and community development: an introduction -- New configurations of power and governance -- Critical issues in philanthropy: power, paradox, possibility and the private foundation -- “Walking the tightrope”: the funding of South African NGOs and the governance of community development -- The reinvention of ‘civil society’: transnational conceptions of development in East-Central Europe -- Social finance and community development: exploring egalitarian possibilities -- Corporate funding and local community development: a case from the mining industry in Australia -- Questions of state and grassroots democracy -- Funding community organising: diversifying sources, democratising civil society -- ‘It is time to reterritorialise utopian thinking’: community, the commons and the funding of autonomous movements in Latin America – an interview with Marcelo Lopes de Souza -- Modes of agency and horizons of possibility -- Keeping the show on the road: a reflective dialogue between a community worker and a funder -- Local philanthropy and women’s empowerment: the case of Tewa, the Nepal Women’s Fund -- Communities of hope? Gendered re-signification of microcredit in rural India -- Building alternative communities within the state: the Kurdish Movement, local municipalities and democratic autonomy -- Index