This article scrutinizes the ambiguous nature of community development (CD) in England. It does so by drawing attention to CD’s porous boundaries in relation to its allied community-based practices. Empirical evidence is provided – from national policy-making and the policy and practice in a case study local authority in England – that the Coalition government (2010–2015) exploited the ambiguity of CD by re-shaping its practices as social enterprise, volunteering and community organizing. This was to achieve a ‘new’ permutation of neoliberalism where civil society and its citizens provide local public services instead of ‘relying’ on state intervention and resources. The article concludes that the CD academic and practitioner field both shapes and is shaped by competing discourses of CD ‘fighting’ for hegemonic articulation. Yet, to the detriment of the field, this is rarely acknowledged nor engaged with.

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利用社区发展中的歧义：英国联合政府的教训（2010-2015）

本文仔细研究了英格兰社区发展 (CD) 的模糊性。它通过提请注意 CD 与其基于社区的联盟实践相关的漏洞边界来做到这一点。提供了经验证据——​​来自国家政策制定和英格兰地方当局案例研究的政策和实践——联合政府（2010-2015）通过将其实践重新塑造为社会企业、志愿服务和社区组织。这是为了实现新自由主义的“新”排列，公民社会及其公民提供当地公共服务，而不是“依赖”国家干预和资源。文章的结论是，CD 学术界和实践者领域既塑造了 CD 为霸权表达而“战斗”的竞争话语，也被这些话语塑造了。然而，