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Rethinking Community Development eBook Series

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  • Politics, Power and Community Development

    Edited by Rosie Meade, Mae Shaw, Sarah Banks ...
    Series series Rethinking Community Development
    The increasing impact of neoliberalism across the globe means that a complex interplay of democratic, economic and managerial rationalities now frame the parameters and practices of community development. This book explores how contemporary politics, and the power relations it reflects and projects, is shaping the field today.This first title in the timely Rethinking Community Development series ... Read more

    $41.03 CAD

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  • Community Development in an Uncertain World

    Vision, Analysis and Practice

    by Jim Ife ...
    In Community Development in an Uncertain World, Jim Ife draws on the principles of social justice, ecological responsibility and post-Enlightenment and Indigenous perspectives to advance new holistic approaches to community development. The book explores the concept of community development on a local and international scale in the context of globalisation and postcolonial theory. Students will ... Read more

    $77.03 CAD

  • Anthropology and Development

    Culture, Morality and Politics in a Globalised World

    by Emma Crewe, Richard Axelby ...
    In recent decades international development has grown into a world-shaping industry. But how do aid agencies work and what do they achieve? How does aid appear to the adults and children who receive it? And why has there been so little improvement in the position of the poor? Viewing aid and development from anthropological perspectives gives illuminating answers to questions such as these. This ... Read more

    $44.63 CAD

  • Participation

    From Tyranny to Transformation: Exploring New Approaches to Participation in Development

    Edited by Samuel Hickey, Giles Mohan ...
    Participation has established itself as a significant approach to project implementation, policy-making and governance in developing and developed countries alike. Recently, however, it has become fashionable to dismiss participation as more rhetoric than substance, and subject to manipulation by agencies and social change agents intent simply on pursuing their own agendas under cover of community ... Read more

    $45.71 CAD

  • A Handbook of Children and Young People’s Participation

    Perspectives from Theory and Practice

    Edited by Barry Percy-Smith, Nigel Patrick Thomas ...
    A Handbook of Children and Young People’s Participation bringstogether key thinkers and practitioners from diverse contexts acrossthe globe to provide an authoritative overview of contemporary theoryand practice around children’s participation.Promoting the participation of children and young people - indecision-making and policy development, and as active contributorsto everyday family and ... Read more

    $52.99 CAD

  • Curriculum Reform in Ontario

    'Common-Sense' Policy Processes and Democratic Possibilities

    by Laura Elizabeth Pinto ...
    This first full account of curriculum policy formulation in 1990s Ontario helps readers understand the real-life experiences of policymakers both within the province and internationally.Having worked as a policy analyst for the Government of Ontario, a public school teacher, and a university professor, author Laura Elizabeth Pinto is uniquely positioned to tackle the key issues of policy ... Read more

    $28.79 CAD

  • Global Creative Industries

    by Terry Flew ...
    Series series Global Media and Communication
    The creative industries are the subject of growing attention among policy-makers, academics, activists, artists and development specialists worldwide. This engaging book provides a global overview of developments in the creative industries, and analyses how these developments relate to wider debates about globalization, cities, culture and the global creative economy.Flew considers creative ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Key Concepts in Economic Geography

    by Yuko Aoyama, Susan Hanson, James T Murphy ...
    Series series Key Concepts in Human Geography
    "A comprehensive and highly readable review of the conceptual underpinnings of economic geography. Students and professional scholars alike will find it extremely useful both as a reference manual and as an authoritative guide to the numerous theoretical debates that characterize the field."- Allen J. Scott, University of California"Guides readers skilfully through the rapidly changing field of ... Read more

    $77.75 CAD

  • Participation in Community Work

    International Perspectives

    Edited by Anne Karin Larsen, Vishanthie Sewpaul, Grete Oline Hole ...
    Participation is a key community work method and this text, written by an international selection of authors, covers innovative approaches in community based education and practice. Including real-life case studies of participatory practice, it offers new definitions of community work, organisation and development and will challenge and inspire all those involved in community work practice and ... Read more

    $91.16 CAD

  • The community development reader

    History, themes and issues

    Edited by Gary Craig, Marjorie Mayo, Keith Popple, Mae Shaw, Marilyn Taylor ...
    Community development emerged as a recognisable occupational activity in the United Kingdom in the 1950s. Since then, whilst struggling to remain true to its basic values it has often been manipulated to serve differing policy and political purposes. This unique Reader traces its changing fortunes through a selection of readings from key writers. It will be invaluable to those pursuing community ... Read more

    $55.43 CAD

  • Educational Policy and the Politics of Change

    by Miriam Henry, Bob Lingard, Fazal Rizvi, Sandra Taylor ...
    Governments around the world are trying to come to terms with new technologies, new social movements and a changing global economy. As a result, educational policy finds itself at the centre of a major political struggle between those who see it only for its instrumental outcomes and those who see its potential for human emancipation.This book is a successor to the best-selling Understanding ... Read more

    $91.16 CAD

  • The SAGE Handbook of the Sociology of Work and Employment

    Edited by Heidi Gottfried, Stephen Edgell, Edward Granter ...
    The SAGE Handbook of the Sociology of Work and Employment is a landmark collection of original contributions by leading specialists from around the world.The coverage is both comprehensive and comparative (in terms of time and space) and each ‘state of the art’ chapter provides a critical review of the literature combined with some thoughts on the direction of research. This authoritative text is ... Read more

    $133.19 CAD