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Deliberations in Community Development

Balancing on the Edge

By: Dejan Ozegovic (Editor), Linda J Carroll (Editor), J Peter Rothe (Editor)

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Hardcover | 26 January 2012

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Community development has become the new buzz in the social and health sciences. Although community development has been an important subject for deliberation and study for several decades, within the past ten years or so it has become politically correct and even fashionable to include mention of community development in government parlance, economic planning, social work, public health debates and liberal arts discourse. Whereas most texts on community development make only brief reference to the importance of theory, thereafter quickly dispensing with it, in this book, the approach taken to community development positions itself against that trend. The issues raised in the chapters of this book offer us alternative ways of looking at the familiar. This book informs us that community development is a complex conundrum of definitions, ideas, ideologies, interests, data, participants and locations.

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About the Book Contributors	p. vii
Acknowledgment	p. xiii
Introduction: Strong Headwinds	p. 1
Knowledge as Symbolic Universe in Community Development	p. 7
Social Frames of Knowledge as Barriers and Stumbling Blocks	p. 9
A Holistic Framework for Seeking Knowledge in Community Development: The Complementarity of Looking In and Looking At	p. 23
Respecting Oral Tradition: Sharing Circles for Indigenous People	p. 37
Shifting Social Sands and Community Development	p. 47
Accelerated Social Change: Impacts on Community Development	p. 49
Including Voices of the Excluded: Lessons from Buffalo, NY	p. 61
Community Work Today: Contested Rationalities, Competing Practices	p. 87
Enhancing Community Development through Empowerment of Women	p. 101
Shadows and Dark Hallways	p. 117
Resilience and Coping: "I" Concerns or "We" Concerns? Falling through the Community Development Cracks	p. 119
Where are the Quail at Quail Run? How Labelling Creates Paradoxes for Community Development	p. 133
Political and Ethical Implications of Community Development	p. 149
Karl Polanyi and the Community Development Movement: The Local Politics of Embeddedness	p. 151
A Tale of Two Community Development Projects: Community Engagement, Local Knowledge and Power Relations	p. 175
Community and Community Development: The Strange History of My Father and Why it Matters	p. 187
Professionals, Community and the Changing Culture of Care	p. 211
Economics, Corporate Interests and Marketing Community Development	p. 233
Risk Management-In the Insurance Market's Slipstream	p. 235
Hybrid Forms of Civic Participation in Neighborhood Redevelopment	p. 249
The Case of Volunteerism: Fine Wine or Stale Vinegar	p. 265
Certified Community Development? Local Participation in Corporate Governance	p. 277
Faith-Based Community Development	p. 289
Faith-Based Involvement in Community Development	p. 291
Conclusion: Our Reach Should Exceed our Grasp	p. 303
Index	p. 309
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