Jim Ife

Community Development in an Uncertain World (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Community Development in an Uncertain World provides a comprehensive and lively introduction to modern community development. The book explores the interrelated frameworks of social justice, ecological responsibility and post-Enlightenment thinking, drawing on various sources including the wisdom of indigenous peoples. Recognising the increasing complexity and uncertainty of the times in which we live, Jim Ife promotes a holistic approach to community development and emphasises the different dimensions of human community: social, economic, political, cultural, environmental, spiritual, personal and survival. The first section of the book examines the major theories and concepts that underpin community development. This includes a discussion of core principles: change and wisdom 'from below', the importance of process and valuing diversity. The second section focuses on practical elements, such as community work roles and essential skills. The final chapters discuss the problematic context of much contemporary practice and offer vision and hope for the future.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. August 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781107288058
• Artikelnr.: 39906080

Inhaltsangabe

1. Crisis, transition and community
2. Alternatives and transitions
3. Foundations of community development: ecological and social justice perspectives
4. Foundations of community development: post-Enlightenment and Indigenous perspectives
5. A vision for community development
6. Change from below
7. The process of community development
8. The global and the local
9. Colonialism, colonialist practice and working internationally
10. Community development: social, economic and political
11. Community development: cultural, environmental, spiritual, personal and survival
12. Principles of community development and their application to practice
13. Roles and skills 1: facilitative and educational
14. Roles and skills 2: representational and technical
15. The organisational context
16. Practice issues.