Funding, power and community development (Rethinking Community Development) - Hardcover

McCrea, Niamh; Finnegan, Fergal

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1447336151 ISBN 13: 9781447336150

Publisher: Policy Press, 2018

Synopsis

This edited collection critically explores the funding arrangements governing contemporary community development and how they shape its theory and practice. International contributions from activists, practitioners and academics consider the evolution of funding in community development and how changes in policy and practice can be understood in relation to the politics of neoliberalism and contemporary efforts to build global democracy from the bottom up. Thematically, the collection explores matters such as popular democracy, the shifting contours of the state-market relationship, prospects for democratising the state, the prospects for community autonomy, the effects of managerialism and hybrid modes of funding such as social finance. The collection is thus uniquely positioned to stimulate critical debate on both policy and practice within the broad field of community development.

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About the Author

Niamh McCrea is a lecturer at the Department of Humanities, Institute of Technology Carlow, Ireland where she teaches community development, youth work and adult education, with a particular focus on equality studies. Fergal Finnegan is now a lecturer at the Department of Adult and Community Education, Maynooth University. His research interests include social movements, popular education, biographical research, social class and equality and higher education.

Edition details

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1447336151
• ISBN 13: 9781447336150
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208