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Book SynopsisUsing international perspectives and case studies, this book discusses the relationships between community development and populism in the context of today’s widespread crisis of democracy. Exploring the synergies and contradictions between populism and community development, it offers new ways of understanding and responding to populism.
Table of ContentsIntroductory Overview ~ Sue Kenny, Jim Ife and Peter Westoby Part One: Framing the Challenges The Challenges of Populism ~ Sue Kenny Right-wing Populism and Community Development: Beyond Modernity and Liberal Democracy ~ Jim Ife A Radical Community Development Response to Right-Wing Populism ~ Peter Westoby Community Development and Popular Education in Populist Times ~ Marjorie Mayo Social-media-weaponised Populism and Community Development ~ Jacques Boulet Alinsky Revisited: ‘Rubbing Raw the Resentments of the People’ ~ Peter Szynka Part Two: Populism and Community Development in Different Contexts From Inclusionary to Exclusionary Populism in the Transformation of U.S. Community Development ~ Randy Stoecker and Benny Witkovsky Populism and Environmental (In)justice in Latin America ~ Marcelo Lopes de Souza Populist Politics and Democracy in the UK: Implications for Community Development ~ Keith Popple Community Engagement Policies in the Era of Populism: Finland ~ Suvi Aho, Juha Hämäläinen and Arto Salonen Populism and Community Organising in Hong Kong ~ Fung, Kwok-kin, Hung, Suet-lin, Lau, Siu-mei, Wong, King-lai, Chan, Yu Cheung Community Development as Counter-hegemony ~ Andie Reynolds Religion and Populism: The Aksi 212 Movement in Indonesia ~ Ismet Fanany and Rebecca Fanany
