Intro -- The community development reader -- Contents -- Sources of extracts -- Acknowledgments -- Section I -- Introduction: community development in the United Kingdom -- Section 2: In and against the state: 1950s to the late 1970s -- Introduction -- 2.1: The non-directive approach in group and community work -- The directive approach: planning and providing FOR people -- The non-directive approach -- Conditions necessary for self-directed action -- The worker's role in groups -- The worker's role with individuals -- The potential advantages of the non-directive approach -- Its limitations -- Factors affecting choice -- 2.2: Working with community groups: using community development as a method of social work -- Forms of leadership -- Stages of group development -- The worker -- The agency -- 2.3: Rules for radicals: a pragmatic primer for realistic radicals -- Prologue -- The process of power -- 2.4: Community as fact and value -- Community as a value in the sociological tradition -- Community and the whole man -- Community and social divisions -- Community and the loss of political involvement -- Community: the British tradition -- Freedom, individualisation and the loss of community -- 2.5: Community development: a radical alternative? -- Where has the notion of community development sprung from? -- Community development as applied in contemporary United States and British urban situations -- 2.6: Community participation: past and future -- Changing people -- Changing institutions -- Criticisms of participation -- Planning and accountability -- Democracy -- Authenticity -- The future of participation -- 2.7: Gilding the ghetto: the state and the poverty experiments -- 2.8: In and against the state -- Anger, resistance and the making of socialism -- Holding to what we have learned.

Section 3: In and against the market: mid- to late 1970s to early 1990s -- Introduction -- 3.1: Community action over local planning issues -- Introduction -- Conflict over office development policies -- Conclusion -- 3.2: The boundaries of change in community work -- Community work in the interjacence -- The community group -- 3.3: Change and conflict: a defence of local community action -- The social planning approach to community work -- A defence of local community action -- The radical left approach -- Social control and the welfare establishment -- Conclusion -- 3.4: Racism: the response of community work -- Prejudice -- Racism -- Discrimination -- 3.5: The difference between education and organizing -- 3.6: The politics of participation -- The marginalisation of participation -- Participation and power -- Resolving the paradox of participation -- Conclusion -- 3.7: Equality and difference - what's in a concept? -- Introduction to the debate -- Conceptual and theoretical issues -- New theorising - implications for practice -- Community practice - difference and equality -- Crossing boundaries -- Conclusion -- 3.8: Women in the community: feminist principles and organising in community work -- Feminist principles of organising -- The relevance of feminist principles of traditional community work -- Introduction -- 4.1: Education, conflict and community development in Northern Ireland -- Introduction -- Community development in the 1970s -- The role of government -- Community development in the 1980s and 1990s -- The role of education -- Conclusion -- 4.2: Models of community work -- Community care -- Community organization -- Community development -- Social/community planning -- Community education -- Community action -- Feminist community work -- Black and anti-racist community work -- Conclusion.

4.3: Community development at the crossroads: a way forward -- Introduction -- Community development at the crossroads -- Structure and agency: the role of practitioners -- Community development as the new vision -- What future for community development -- Change and the individual -- Community development as a process for welfare intervention -- The extension of democracy -- The repoliticisation of public life -- 4.4: When 'active citizenship' becomes 'mob rule' -- 4.5: Inequalities in health: contested explanations, shifting discourses and ambiguous policies -- Introduction -- The health inequalities debate -- Contemporary models: overlaps and discontinuities -- Discourses of inequality -- Redistributionist discourse (RED) -- Moral underclass discourse (MUD) -- Social integrationist discourse (SID) -- Shifting discourses -- 4.6: The significance of global citizen action -- Lessons for good practice -- Challenges for the future -- 4.7: Whose problem? Disability narratives and available identities -- Oppressive images -- Disability arts -- An affirmative model of disability -- Conclusion -- 4.8: The changing terrain of multi-culture: from anti-oppressive practice to community cohesion -- 4.9: Community capacity-building: something old, something new…?,2 -- Introduction -- The nature of 'community' -- The practice of community development -- Community capacity-building: scope and definitions -- Capacity and partnership -- A critique of community capacity-building -- Conclusion -- 4.10: Reclaiming the radical agenda: a critical approach to community development -- Introduction -- The policy context -- A radical agenda -- Critical praxis -- 4.11: Community participation in the real world -- The theory: from government to governance -- Transferring responsibility downwards -- Becoming active subjects -- The implications for government and communities.

Communities -- 4.12: Community development and the politics of community -- The problem of community -- Community as 'fact' and 'value' -- The contrived community -- Community as possibility -- Conclusion -- Afterword -- References -- Index.

This unique Reader traces the changing fortunes of community development through a selection of readings from key writers.

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