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Adapting to climate change in char land: investigating community-led initiatives in Bangladesh Community Development Journal (IF 1.514) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 M Rezaul Islam, Ifzal Ahmad, Kanamik K Khan
The primary objective of this study was to comprehensively examine the types of climate change, including its magnitudes, and impacts, and to assess the various community-led initiatives implemented in response to these challenges. A quantitative research approach was employed, utilizing structured face-to-face interviews to collect data from 196 household heads in two disaster-affected char land communities
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‘I know how to live from what the hill gives’: biocultural uses, tensions and partial reconstructions around the common goods of the Cerro Caracol urban park Community Development Journal (IF 1.514) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Beatriz E Cid-Aguayo, Verónica Oliveros, Diego Oñate Vargas, Anahi Gajardo, Graciela Silva, Joaquín Pinela, Pablo Vejar
In the south-central Chilean city of Concepción, an irregular urban settlement named ‘Agüita de la Perdiz’ (Partridge Creek) built on the slopes of Cerro Caracol (Snail Hill) has become an emblematic neighbourhood, located within an urban biodiversity hotspot. The richness and biodiversity of the landscape have been used in different ways by the inhabitants of Concepción, but in the case of the Agüita
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Sports clubs’ role in community capacity development—illustrations from the Swedish sports movement Community Development Journal (IF 1.514) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Tony Blomqvist Mickelsson
Strong political neoliberal currents in Sweden are directing attention toward communities’ responsibility to address local issues, particularly in disadvantaged areas. In parallel, community sports clubs in Sweden have gained strong traction as being sites where social issues can be addressed. In Swedish disadvantaged areas, where infrastructure is of poor quality, these clubs can be an important addition
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‘Finding their voice’: exploring female adolescents’ perspectives and experiences of a youth leadership programme Community Development Journal (IF 1.514) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Gemma Quartarella, Romana Morda, Laurie A Chapin
In order to increase women’s participation in leadership roles, an understanding of what barriers exist to inhibit female leadership development and what best practices can foster leadership in young women is needed. This qualitative study explored the leadership perspectives and experiences of eight young women (aged 14–16 years) who participated in a community-based youth leadership programme in
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Exploring the impact of combining women’s empowerment through village savings and loans associations with men’s sensitization on gender equity on socio-economic, maternal, and children’s health outcomes Community Development Journal (IF 1.514) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Wyvine Bapolisi, Jean Makelele, Lenneke Kono-Tange, Ghislain Bisimwa, Sonja Merten
Background The Democratic Republic of the Congo is among the poorest countries in the world with a low gender development index. To help households improve their economic levels and address gender-based violence, the Mawe Tatu programme was created to combine women’s empowerment through village savings and loans associations (VSLA) with engaging men in changing their attitudes and adopting positive
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‘Neighborhood residents cannot afford homeownership’: the limitations of community development on Latino enclaves Community Development Journal (IF 1.514) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Reinaldo Rojas
The challenges of low-income neighborhoods and the different approaches to community economic development continue to dominate urban revitalization and poverty discussions. The ongoing, contested debate remains whether the nature of top-down business-oriented community economic development models serve the broader interests of the community residents or the narrow interests of its proponents and benefactors
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Building communities of health: the experience of European social clinics Community Development Journal (IF 1.514) Pub Date : 2023-11-03 Delia Da Mosto, Sara Vallerani, George Kokkinidis, Marco Checchi, Silvia Giaimo, Elisa Adami, Leonardo Mammana
Social clinics are grassroots health initiatives characterized by the development of mutualist practices of healthcare provision and the articulation of their action at territorial and community level. The present paper explores the development and implementation of community participation practices across three social clinics in Europe: social clinic of solidarity KIA in Greece, Village2Santé in France
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A community-based study to set the policy agenda for the well-being of 2GSBTQ+ men in Ontario, Canada Community Development Journal (IF 1.514) Pub Date : 2023-11-03 Tin D Vo, Cameron McKenzie
Two-Spirit, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (2SGBTQ+) men face significant health inequity. This article reports on two phases of a study conducted in conjunction with the Gay Men’s Sexual Health Alliance (GMSH) to examine 2SGBTQ+ men’s health inequity. First, an environmental scan of existing Ontario government health policy was conducted to identify specific gaps. Second, six focus groups of
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The roles of community health workers in understanding COVID-19-related inequities among Black pregnant women Community Development Journal (IF 1.514) Pub Date : 2023-11-03 Gwendolyn Donley
Background US Black pregnant women have worse birth and maternal outcomes than their White counterparts, and these disparities were exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. We sought to examine community health workers’ roles in shaping low-income Black pregnant women’s experiences and perspectives on public health guidance during COVID-19. Methods Between December 2020 and September 2021, we conducted
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Embedding community development approaches in local systems to address health inequalities: a scoping review Community Development Journal (IF 1.514) Pub Date : 2023-11-03 Elizabeth Walters, Gail Findlay, Katherine Curtis-Tyler, Angela Harden
Background There is a growing evidence base which shows that community development can make an important contribution to reducing health inequalities, but embedding community development as a mainstream approach into local systems is challenging. The literature relevant to the question of how to embed community development approaches is reviewed in this paper. Methods Using guidance from the Joanna
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Community development and health promotion in contemporary policy: results from an action-research project in bologna (Italy) Community Development Journal (IF 1.514) Pub Date : 2023-11-03 Chiara Bodini, Martina Consoloni, Valerio D’Avanzo, Delia Da Mosto, Sara Gerotto, Silvia Giaimo, Francesca Girardi, Leonardo Mammana, Martina Riccio, Matteo Valoncini
Bologna, Italy, with its history of good governance, progressive welfare policies, community work, and participation has engendered powerful discourses informing policy and institutional innovation. Yet, a recent city-wide mixed-method action-research (AR) project, designed to document and tackle health inequalities, showed a significant North–South divide for a range of health indicators and an unequal
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Community development via performing art: considering a community theatre intervention Community Development Journal (IF 1.514) Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Erica Viola, Angela Fedi, Anna Carla Bosco, Norma De Piccoli
This paper contributes to a reflection on the relationship between community development and performing art. It discusses the possible effects of a community theatre with regard to social and cultural capital, social inclusion, and audience development in Turin (Italy). This form of artistic production can promote social ties and participation in cultural activities and increase social and cultural
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The power to act: dissecting distinctive elements of power and ownership in community organizing in England and Wales Community Development Journal (IF 1.514) Pub Date : 2023-07-21 Jason Wood
This paper considers the continuing evolution in England and Wales of the Alinsky tradition of broad-based community organizing, a process that seeks to build permanent and powerful alliances of local civil society institutions. The paper introduces some of the tenets of the Alinsky model of broad-based organizing and how this has been adapted to the UK context. Drawing on a leading charity that has
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Public art and social media: street art tourism, sociocultural agency and cultural production in contemporary Lisbon Community Development Journal (IF 1.514) Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Carlos Garrido Castellano, Otávio Raposo
This essay engages with Guias do Mocho [Mocho’s Tourist Guides], a bottom-up cultural tourism initiative emerging in Quinta do Mocho, a ‘peripheral’ neighbourhood of Lisbon, as a way of problematizing the relationship between public and street art and social media aesthetics. Scholarship on digital creative industries and street art tourism tends to emphasize the complicities of this kind of cultural
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Listening and learning for public engagement with research Community Development Journal (IF 1.514) Pub Date : 2023-07-04 Rob Watson
What is the possibility of community radio operating as a public engagement platform for the dissemination of publicly funded and socially relevant research? Are there ways that community development techniques, along with community-focussed communication methodologies, can be used to support inclusive and sustainable forms of public engagement for research, that go beyond goal-oriented and transactional
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Who’s at the table: an exploration of community-based food security initiatives and structures in a north-central Canadian context Community Development Journal (IF 1.514) Pub Date : 2023-06-26 Theresa Healy, Christine Callihoo, Annie L Booth
This article examines food security initiatives and actors specific to a rural, remote and northern Canadian community, a context found throughout the world. Using a ‘snowball technique’ to identify experts and practitioners in local food security, we employed qualitative engagement methods to map initiatives, actors and gaps in regional food security. We identified concerns around the ability of the
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What does community do? Reconsidering community action on the Toronto Islands using assemblage theory Community Development Journal (IF 1.514) Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Lindsay Stephens
This paper uses assemblage theory to consider the work that community does in a residential neighborhood in Toronto, Canada. It utilizes assemblage theory and connections between assemblage, affect, and emotion to advance an understanding of how community shapes capacity and action. The analysis shows how community has been enacted on the Islands, what actions and tendencies this assemblage makes possible
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Understanding change in traditional sustainable livelihoods: a complex socio-ecological system in an indigenous community in Mexico Community Development Journal (IF 1.514) Pub Date : 2023-06-09 Carla Galán-Guevara
This research documents how a transition to a more monetized, trade-based economy modifies the socio-ecological livelihoods system of the indigenous community of Santa Fe de la Laguna, in Mexico. The research found that there had been changes in community livelihoods, from traditional activities (agriculture, forestry, and fishing) to an economy based on handicraft production (pottery) and its trade
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Risk and resilience: exploring the potential of LGBTQ third sector and academic partnership Community Development Journal (IF 1.514) Pub Date : 2023-05-20 Nuno Nodin, Catherine Pestano, Elizabeth Peel, Ian Rivers, Allan Tyler
The Risk and Resilience Explored [RaRE] Project (2010–2016) was a collaborative process involving a third sector agency, university partners and volunteers to better understand the risk and resilience factors associated with specific mental health issues among lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer (LGBTQ) people. In this article, we discuss the project’s collaborative ethos, based on a Community-Based
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Local community capacity building: exploring non-governmental organizations approaches in Tamil Nadu Community Development Journal (IF 1.514) Pub Date : 2023-05-17 Sten Langmann, Pieter-Jan Bezemer, David Pick
Locally based non-governmental organizations (NGOs) play an important role in community capacity building (CCB). Because these NGOs are generally located close to the affected communities, they have the local knowledge to identify problems and assist the affected communities to address them. However, the methods these local NGOs use to build capacity in the local communities and the reasons they choose
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The political economy of destructing essential Services in the Quest for basic services: the case of violent protest in Cato Manor Community Development Journal (IF 1.514) Pub Date : 2023-05-13 Nsizwazonke E Yende
Protesting in post-apartheid South Africa is perceived as one of the significant democratic methods of participation and engagement with the government and its executive. As a result, since the early 2000s, community-led participation has been preferred over government-led forms of participatory methods, including mayoral forums and izimbizo (interactive dialogues between government officials and the
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Learning to work in certain ways: bureaucratic literacies and community-based volunteering in the Philippines Community Development Journal (IF 1.514) Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Chris Millora
Concerns have emerged of how the professionalization agenda in the development sector may water down the ‘spirit of volunteerism’ that thrives on community initiative, informality, and flexibility. This paper explores the role of literacy and learning practices in the bureaucratization of community development drawing from an ethnography of local volunteering in the Philippines. Through literacy practices
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‘Come as you are’: place attachment to Islamic third spaces in the United States Community Development Journal (IF 1.514) Pub Date : 2023-02-14 Hassnaa Mohammed
Our global community necessitates the understanding of emergent hybrid typologies of religious spaces and their role in community development. Islamic third spaces are informal socio-religious environments that serve the unmet needs of acculturated generations of US Muslims. Using a place attachment framework, the study illustrates how the social and physical designs of two third spaces curate inclusive
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Ethical challenges for a community-based researcher: a case study from Bihar, India Community Development Journal (IF 1.514) Pub Date : 2022-12-21 Shakila Khatoon, Neerajha Krishna Kumar
The case study is based on a first-person account of the experiences of a community researcher in India involved in community-based participatory development. It highlights the ethical stances taken by the community researcher during primary research that was carried out in remote villages in the state of Bihar among members of a denotified tribal community. It highlights her journey of reflecting
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Ethics for educational research in regions of protracted armed conflict and crisis: a participatory community project in the Lake Chad region Community Development Journal (IF 1.514) Pub Date : 2022-12-07 Margaret Ebubedike, Tajudeen Akanji, Afu Isaiah Kunock, Alison Fox
This paper critically considers the ethics of conducting community-based participatory research, which engages community members, including young people, as active participants in research about them, in the context of the protracted armed conflict and crisis of the Lake Chad region. We highlight the intersection of cultural practices and religious belief systems prevalent in this context, which further
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Towards a community-based ethical contract Community Development Journal (IF 1.514) Pub Date : 2022-11-17 Dave Beck, Rod Purcell
This article argues that to be effective, community development ethics need to be embedded in community development practice. In the professional experience of the authors, ethics are often said by community development practitioners to be important in theory but may seem abstract or have little impact on day-to-day work. We therefore argue that to bridge that gap between theory and practice the establishment
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Everyday ethical challenges for Indian community development practitioners during the COVID-19 pandemic Community Development Journal (IF 1.514) Pub Date : 2022-11-17 Ajeet Kumar Pankaj, Shiv Kumar Yadav
Drawing upon empirical evidence and using Sarah Banks’s concept ‘ethics work’ as a conceptual approach, the article examines the ethical dilemmas facing community development practitioners during the COVID-19 pandemic. The article attempts to understand the everyday experience of community development practitioners working with Dalits, women, and labour migrants in India. Further, given these communities’
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COVID-19 community pantries as community health engagement: the case of Maginhawa community pantry in the Philippines Community Development Journal (IF 1.514) Pub Date : 2022-10-14 Luis Emmanuel A Abesamis, Charles Anthony P Suarez, Mary Louise B Rivera, Natasha Denise S Montevirgen, Jerome V Cleofas
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated and surfaced long-standing inadequacies in the country’s health and social systems. In response to the Philippine government’s inefficient and ineffective COVID-19 response and their dismissal of the calls for accountability, Filipinos at the barangay level organized community pantries to respond to the needs of the community. Using WHO’s Framework for Community
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‘Participation—with what money and whose time?’ An intersectional feminist analysis of community participation Community Development Journal (IF 1.514) Pub Date : 2022-10-04 Julia Fursova, Denise Bishop-Earle, Kisa Hamilton, Gillian Kranias
The paper presents the results of community-based participatory action research that evaluated the quality and extent of resident participation in community development projects initiated by a network of non-profit and public agencies in a lower-income, racialized neighbourhood in Toronto. The paper examines dynamics of community engagement and volunteer participation in relation to the socio-political
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A community development story and portrayal of a phenomenological reflective practice in the social field of paediatric palliative care Community Development Journal (IF 1.514) Pub Date : 2022-09-06 Peter Westoby, Elham Day, Fiona Hawthorne, Matthew Francis Paul Toon, Kelly Oldham
This article is both a story of community development (CD) practice within the paediatric palliative care and bereavement space – and a portrayal of phenomenological reflective practice in the social field. The story and portrayal are about a tradition of work – understood as participatory CD – amplified, made more visible and alive by a phenomenological reflective practice. While the framework of
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Community reinvestment challenges in the age of gentrification: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania as a case study for wide bank lending disparities Community Development Journal (IF 1.514) Pub Date : 2022-08-16 Daniel Holland, Gregory D Squires
Racially unequal home mortgage loan patterns are alive and well today with many financial institutions. Efforts to change these trends are difficult when few question the ‘reinvestment thesis’—an environment in which financial institutions are assumed to meet community needs, even when data suggest the opposite. In this article, we analyze thirteen years of financial institution lending data from 2007
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Rethinking sustainability: recalibrating the global SDGs to align with local principles for Buen Vivir Community Development Journal (IF 1.514) Pub Date : 2022-08-04 Natasha Chassagne
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were developed as a post-2015 response to growing global climate change and social justice issues, but the little progress made has been thrown off course by the COVID-19 pandemic. To achieve environmental and social transformation, we must recalibrate the global approach to include a contextual, bottom-up and wellbeing-oriented alternative to development that
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Facilitating assets-based development in rural communities through service-learning Community Development Journal (IF 1.514) Pub Date : 2022-07-18 Antonella Guarino, Irene Barbieri, Christian Compare, Cinzia Albanesi
By integrating a learning experience with community organizations, service-learning (SL) can be considered a tool to facilitate rural communities’ development, acting as a resource mobilizer. This study presents a participatory process based on the assets-based approach for community development approach. Six local organizations and 16 university students in three Italian rural communities were engaged
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Sustainable development of community-supported STEM-learning ecosystems in rural areas of the United States Community Development Journal (IF 1.514) Pub Date : 2022-06-27 Gary Timko, Maren Harris, Dolly Hayde, Karen Peterman
The Rural Activation & Innovation Network (RAIN) project was funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) (DRL#: 161255) from 2017 through 2021. The purpose of the project was to engage, support, and better understand rural communities in changing perceptions of the importance of Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM) learning to public education and the local economy, as well as leveraging
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Reflecting on community development research: how peer researchers influence and shape community action projects Community Development Journal (IF 1.514) Pub Date : 2022-06-20 Elaine Arnull, Mahuya Kanjilal
This paper explores how the selection of peer researchers influences and shapes peer research projects. It draws on two empirical studies formed from two community action projects in England. Peer research is a method for involving young people as coresearchers within their community or in specific settings such as educational environments and the two projects recruited school children of different
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From self-help to self-advocacy for people with disadvantages: narrating problems through Japanese community radio Community Development Journal (IF 1.514) Pub Date : 2022-06-19 Akiko Ogawa
This study explores an alternative way for tojisha—a Japanese term that usually translates to ‘the parties concerned’ and ‘who face challenges’—to represent themselves. Specifically, it investigates how tojisha can develop self-advocacy skills using the narrative method that facilitates storytelling and community broadcasting. To this end, we scheduled community radio programmes with the aid of a local
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Co-Creation in Theory and Practice: Exploring Creativity in the Global North and South Community Development Journal (IF 1.514) Pub Date : 2022-04-30 Carlos Garrido Castellano
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Immigrant Entrepreneurship in Cities: Global Perspectives Community Development Journal (IF 1.514) Pub Date : 2022-04-22 Jialin Shi,Huping Li,Lijuan Zhang
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Collective impact: lessons from the American democratic tradition Community Development Journal (IF 1.514) Pub Date : 2022-03-31 Hannah W Stewart-Gambino
Collective Impact, a framework for improving social service provision first articulated in 2011, promises to improve efficiency while creating win–win cross-sector collaborations to solve the root causes of pressing community needs. This paper argues that in its current articulation, Collective Impact might deliver efficiencies but not transformative change. Positioning Collective Impact within the
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Rebecca Willis, Too hot to handle? The democratic challenge of climate change Community Development Journal (IF 1.514) Pub Date : 2022-03-25 Alice Butler-Warke
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Ethnography of community governance: a case of COVID-19 response of an urban slum in Bangladesh Community Development Journal (IF 1.514) Pub Date : 2022-03-17 Shahaduz Zaman,Faruq Hossain,Imran Matin
Abstract Although COVID-19 cases and deaths in different clusters of Bangladesh were increasing rapidly for most of the year 2020, surprisingly very few cases were reported in the urban slums, identified as the potential hotspots of Coronavirus. While the epidemiological puzzle of the low incidence of COVID-19 in slums remains unresolved, an ethnography in an urban slum in Dhaka, the capital city of
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Enhancing well-being and social connectedness of rural communities through community shops Community Development Journal (IF 1.514) Pub Date : 2022-02-07 Trish Finegan, Morgan Cawley Buckley
This article evaluates the impact of a community development initiative to establish a network of community shops across County Kilkenny, Ireland. Specifically, this research investigates the impact of this initiative on community well-being in two localities. Data were gathered through multi-site semi-structured interviews with community workers and members. Respondents self-reported a perceptible
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Just transitions Community Development Journal (IF 1.514) Pub Date : 2022-01-11 Scandrett (ed.) E, Dey S, Graham S.
The idea of Just Transition (JT) emerged from the trade union movement in the 1980s as a means of making the transition from the current, high fossil fuel economy to a sustainable society while protecting and generating jobs with decent wages and conditions. The phrase has achieved wider popularity in recent years, not least, since it was included in the preamble to the Paris Agreement signed at COP21
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Evaluation in Small Development Non-profits: Deadends, Victories, and Alternative Routes Community Development Journal (IF 1.514) Pub Date : 2022-01-21 Allum C.
, Palgrave Macmillan, Switzerland, 2021, 215 pages, ISBN 978-3-030-58978-3 (£74.99H/b £54.99 P/b) ISBN 978-3-030-58979-0 (eBook) (£59.99). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58979-0
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Does community development work? Stories and practice for reconstructed community development in South Africa Community Development Journal (IF 1.514) Pub Date : 2022-01-13 Cornel Hart
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Representation, trust and ethnicity within refugee communities: the case of Darfurians in Israel Community Development Journal (IF 1.514) Pub Date : 2022-01-12 Lisa Richlen
International discourse increasingly emphasizes refugee participation and the need for global forums to consult with refugees and refugee organizations. This process has been critiqued for, amongst other things, being driven by the needs of these organizations and for not meaningfully ensuring broad-based refugee participation including, for example, appropriate representation of women. This may contrast
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Keeping the baby when we throw out the bathwater: social supermarkets for community development Community Development Journal (IF 1.514) Pub Date : 2022-01-11 Sebastian Stettin,Clara Pirie,John H McKendrick
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Environmentalism from the margins: interviews with scholar-activists Community Development Journal (IF 1.514) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Zarina Ahmad,Dena Arya,Karen Bell,Callum McGregor,Eurig Scandrett,Leah Temper
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EditorialFraming climate emergency: community development, populism and just transition Community Development Journal (IF 1.514) Pub Date : 2021-12-29 Callum McGregor,Eurig Scandrett
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Rethinking the everyday domestic sphere: Palestinian women as environmentalist and anti-colonial warriors Community Development Journal (IF 1.514) Pub Date : 2021-12-16 Manal Shqair, Mahmoud Soliman
This paper examines the role of rural Palestinian women in the South Hebron Hills (SHH) in fighting back against both Israeli settler colonial practices and environmental destruction resulting from such practices. We contend that Israel is waging a war on the environment as a tool to deprive Palestinians in Area ‘C’ of what sustains life, land and natural resources. Through their everyday practices
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Decolonizing Climate Research and Policy: making space to tell our own stories, in our own ways Community Development Journal (IF 1.514) Pub Date : 2021-12-07 Eriel Tchekwie Deranger, Rebecca Sinclair, Beze Gray, Deborah McGregor, Jen Gobby
As the climate crisis deepens, the discourse aimed at finding solutions continues to intensify. Increasingly, government agencies and world leaders are recognizing the critical importance of including Indigenous knowledge and perspectives in the development of sustainable responses. To date, however, opportunities for meaningful Indigenous engagement in the creation and development of climate solutions
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Rooting and reaching: insights from Love Leitrim’s successful resistance to fracking in Ireland Community Development Journal (IF 1.514) Pub Date : 2021-12-02 Jamie Gorman
What can community development learn from frontline community resistance to extractivism and the fossil fuel industry? In the global North, environmental governance often operates within the dominant mode of neoliberal ‘environmentality’ (Luke. 1999. Environmentality as green governmentality, in E. Darier ed, Discourses of the Environment, Blackwell, Oxford), conceptualizing environmental action in
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Community initiatives against Covid-19 in the United Arab Emirates Community Development Journal (IF 1.514) Pub Date : 2021-11-08 Fakir Al Gharaibeh, Ashek Mahmud, M Rezaul Islam
Broadly speaking, community development is a process in which organizations support community members to identify and take collective action on issues that are important to them. This process helps to empower community members towards building stronger, healthier and more connected communities. In general, community development processes seek to improve quality of life; covering economic development
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A re-reading of Gandhi’s and Ambedkar’s emancipatory discourses for social action against untouchability Community Development Journal (IF 1.514) Pub Date : 2021-10-29 Sujay Biswas
Gandhi and Ambedkar offer a fascinating picture of community organizers fighting against caste oppression and caste discrimination. Both were committed to transforming the social, economic, political, and cultural conditions of ‘Dalits’†. They claimed that only through social action could societal transformation take place. As a result, they placed a strong emphasis on mobilizing the public against
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EditorialChallenging conditions for academic writing and the limits of excellence through competition Community Development Journal (IF 1.514) Pub Date : 2021-08-12 Rosie R Meade
As I approach the end of my term as co-editor of the Community Development Journal (CDJ), it seems like an appropriate time to think about the project of academic writing and the conditions under which it occurs. The entire edifice of academic publishing relies on trust; trust that research and writing have been produced in good faith; trust that editors and reviewers deal fairly and respectfully with
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How social profiles influence community entrepreneurs’ capacity to develop networks. A Bourdieuan perspective on Italian community co-operatives Community Development Journal (IF 1.514) Pub Date : 2021-10-20 Bianchi Michele
During the last decade, Italian community co-operatives have emerged as a new form of community-development organization. The literature on community-based enterprises (CBEs) explains this phenomenon as a community that becomes entrepreneurial and develops locally based businesses for its socio-economic development. Nevertheless, a more critical view of CBEs reveals the partiality of a community’s
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Using theory-based evaluation to understand what works in asset-based community development Community Development Journal (IF 1.514) Pub Date : 2021-10-12 Sarah Ward
Asset-based community development (ABCD) has become a popular approach to community work, with the claim that it can support high poverty communities to drive the process of community development. Yet there is little detailed evidence on the efficacy of the ABCD model, and how this relates to the political, economic, and social context in which the intervention is located. This article presents research
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Hope under Neoliberal Austerity—Responses from Civil Society and Civic Universities: Edited by Mel Steer, Simin Davoudi, Mark Shucksmith and Liz Todd, Policy Press, Bristol, 2021, 285 pages. Community Development Journal (IF 1.514) Pub Date : 2021-10-04 Mark Garavan
That we live in a time of recurring crises seems apparent. The financial crisis of 2008–2010 brought increased poverty and inequality and exposed the fragile foundation of Western capitalism. The self-declared winner of the twentieth century’s hot and cold wars quickly began to look profoundly ill-suited for the challenges of the twenty-first. The refugee crises of the following decade summoned back
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Estate Regeneration and Its Discontents: Public Housing, Place and Inequality in London Community Development Journal (IF 1.514) Pub Date : 2021-09-23 Power M.
, Policy Press, Bristol, 2021, 520 pages, ISBN: 978-1-4473-2919-0, £26.99 Pbk
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Community-based paralegals to build just societies: insights from a legal empowerment project in Pakistan Community Development Journal (IF 1.514) Pub Date : 2021-09-15 Abdur Rehman Cheema, Mehvish Riaz
The provision of rule of law and justice contributes to the building of equitable, inclusive, and economically prosperous societies. However, mere legal protection of the rights of the people in developing societies remains insufficient to ensure due protections guaranteed by the law. This study examines the impact of a legal empowerment project in the two districts of rural Punjab in Pakistan through