Funding, Power and Community Development /

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

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 chan...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (208 p.)
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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

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