Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Rethinking Community Development ix
4. Acknowledgements x
5. Notes on contributors xi
6. Politics, power and community development: an introductory essay 1
7. Thinking politically
8. The politics of deploying community 31
9. Changing community development roles: the challenges of a globalising world 47
10. Community organising and political agency: changing community development subjects in India 65
11. Practising politics
12. Identity politics, community participation and the making of new places: examples from Taiwan 85
13. Community development, venture philanthropy and neoliberal governmentality: a case from Ireland 103
14. A shifting paradigm: engendering the politics of community engagement in India 121
15. The politics of diversity in Australia: extending the role of community practice 139
16. The politics of environmental justice: community development in Ecuadorian and Peruvian Amazonia 159
17. The politics of democracy and the global institutions: lessons and challenges for community development 179
18. Politicising the future
19. Disability arts: the building of critical community politics and identity 199
20. Service delivery protests in South Africa: a case for community development? 217
21. Community development and commons: on the road to alternative economics? 235
22. Index 253