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Book SynopsisThis edited collection critically explores the funding arrangements governing contemporary community development and how they shape its theory and practice.
Trade Review"Funding, in austere times, is critical in community development. This book, however, makes an important contribution to our understanding of the costs, as well as benefits, of different funding models and their impact on community development principles and practice." Angus McCabe, University of Birmingham
"...an important contribution to the study of community development and ought to be required reading for anyone interested in the subject." Studies in the Education of Adults
Table of ContentsChapter 1: Funding, power and community development: an introduction, Fergal Finnegan and Niamh McCrea PART 1: New configurations of power and governance Chapter 2: Critical issues in philanthropy: power, paradox, possibility and the private foundation, Erica Kohl-Arenas Chapter 3: ‘Walking the tightrope’: the funding of South African NGOs and the governance of community development, Natascha Mueller-Hirth Chapter 4: The reinvention of ‘civil society’: transnational conceptions of development in East-Central Europe, Agnes Gagyi and Mariya Ivancheva Chapter 5: Social finance and community development: exploring egalitarian possibilities, Brendan Murtagh and Niamh Goggin Chapter 6: Corporate funding and local community development: a case from the mining industry in Australia, Robyn Mayes PART 2: Questions of state and grassroots democracy Chapter 7: Funding community organising: diversifying sources, democratising civil society, Robert Fisher and Hélène Balazard Chapter 8: ‘It is time to re-territorialise utopian thinking’: community, the commons and the funding of autonomous movements in Latin America - An interview with Marcelo Lopes de Souza PART 3: Modes of agency and horizons of possibility Chapter 9: Keeping the show on the road: a reflective dialogue between a community worker and a funder, Lin Bender and Japhet Makongo Chapter 10: Local philanthropy and women’s empowerment: the case of Tewa, the Nepal Women’s Fund, Rita Thapa Chapter 11: Communities of hope? Gendered re-signification of microcredit in rural India, Debarati Sen and Sarasij Majumder Chapter 12: Building alternative communities within the state: the Kurdish movement, local municipalities and democratic autonomy, Ulrike Flader and Çetin Gürer
