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A critical examination of the contradictory ideas and practices that have shaped community development in the US and the UK. It exposes a problematic politics that have far-reaching consequences for those committed to working for social justice.

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What are the Micropolitics of Community Development?; Community Development in a Post-Civil Rights America; When Technocracy Met Marxism: The Community Development Projects in Britain; Community Development and the Rise of the American New Right; From Radicalism to Realism: Rethinking Community Development in a Post-Marxist Britain; Commodifying Community: American Community Development and Neoliberal Hegemony; Privatising Public Life: Neoliberalism and the Dilemmas of British Community Development; Between Economic Crisis and Austerity: What Next for Community Development in Britain and America?; Bibliography.

Community Development as Micropolitics

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      Publisher Bristol University Press
      Published 20 July 2016
      ISBN-13 9781447313182
      978-1447313182
      ISBN-10 1447313186
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      Social welfare, social policy and social services Society and culture: general

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A critical examination of the contradictory ideas and practices that have shaped community development in the US and the UK. It exposes a problematic politics that have far-reaching consequences for those committed to working for social justice.

      Table of Contents
      What are the Micropolitics of Community Development?; Community Development in a Post-Civil Rights America; When Technocracy Met Marxism: The Community Development Projects in Britain; Community Development and the Rise of the American New Right; From Radicalism to Realism: Rethinking Community Development in a Post-Marxist Britain; Commodifying Community: American Community Development and Neoliberal Hegemony; Privatising Public Life: Neoliberalism and the Dilemmas of British Community Development; Between Economic Crisis and Austerity: What Next for Community Development in Britain and America?; Bibliography.

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