Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. CHAPTER ONE (Re)creating Recreation and Sport Activities in Indigenous Communities: A Health-Promotion Approach for Social Work 19
5. CHAPTER TWO Supporting Community Connections in Later Life: The Role of Community-Engaged Arts 45
6. CHAPTER THREE Organizing within Communities That Have Experienced Collective Trauma: Tensions, Contradictions, and Possibilities 65
7. CHAPTER FOUR Community Development in Atlantic Canada: Case Studies in Three Sectors of Activity in Acadian Communities in New Brunswick 91
8. CHAPTER FIVE Queering and Querying: Hope for Critical Queer Theory in Community Practice 111
9. CHAPTER SIX Collective Action and Interventions in Quebec 133
10. CHAPTER SEVEN Poverty, Inequalities, and Collective Intervention Strategies 155
11. CHAPTER EIGHT Feminist Organizing in Canada 183
12. CHAPTER NINE Community Development and Francophone-Minority Communities: Study Based on a Social-Capital Model 209
13. CHAPTER TEN Immigrant Organizing and the Community 231
14. CHAPTER ELEVEN Community Organizing with Immigrants and Refugees 255
15. CHAPTER TWELVE Fostering Effective Public Policy for Climate Change and a Renewable-Energy Economy: Policy Influencing and Capacity Building as Community Practice 277
16. CHAPTER THIRTEEN “Nothing About Us Without Us”: (dis)Ability Community Development in Nova Scotia 301
17. CHAPTER FOURTEEN Critical Perspectives on Community Work with Youth 321
18. Conclusion: The Canadian Context of Community Work 345
19. Contributors 351