Alison Gilchrist

The Well-Connected Community (eBook, ePUB)

A Networking Approach to Community Development

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

There is growing recognition in practice and policy of how networking contributes to the vitality and cohesion of community life and civil society. The Well-Connected Community provides theoretical insights and practical guidance for people working with and for communities. This updated edition takes account of the changing political and economic context, including rising social inequalities and community tensions. It considers new approaches to well being, such as social prescribing and the use of social media for local and global organising. This model of community development explains and promotes networking as a skilled and strategic intervention and provides recommendations for good practice.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Policy Press
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. September 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781447347804
• Artikelnr.: 57709197

Autorenporträt

Alison Gilchrist is an independent consultant and research fellow at the University of Birmingham. She has worked for almost four decades in community development as an activist, practitioner, trainer, researcher, policy advisor and manager.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to the third edition
Community connections: value and meaning
Community networks and policy dimensions
Community development: principles and practice
Working with communities: different approaches
Networks: form and features
Network functions
Networking principles and practices
Networking for community development
Complexity and the well-connected community
Developing the well-connected community
Issues and implications
Suggested further reading.