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Community development as micropolitics : comparing theories, policies and politics in America and Britain / Akwugo Emejulu.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Bristol, UK : Policy Press, 2015Description: 1 online resource (ix, 182 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781447313199
  • 1447313194
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 307.1/4 23
LOC classification:
  • HN49.C6 E44 2015eb
Online resources: Summary: Community development is routinely invoked as a practical solution to a myriad of social problems, even though there is little consensus about its meaning and purpose. Through a comparative analysis of competing US and UK perspectives on community development since 1968, this book critically examines the contradictory ideas and practices that have shaped this field. Such an approach exposes problematic politics that have far-reaching consequences for those committed to working for social justice.
List(s) this item appears in: politics government การเมือง การปกครอง (update2023) | social สังคม (update2023)
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebsco, viewed Feb. 10, 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Community development is routinely invoked as a practical solution to a myriad of social problems, even though there is little consensus about its meaning and purpose. Through a comparative analysis of competing US and UK perspectives on community development since 1968, this book critically examines the contradictory ideas and practices that have shaped this field. Such an approach exposes problematic politics that have far-reaching consequences for those committed to working for social justice.

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