Ethics, Equity and Community Development (Rethinking Community Development) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 144734510X ISBN 13: 9781447345107

Publisher: Policy Press, 2019

Synopsis

This book offers a unique focus on the everyday ethics of community development practice in the context of local and global struggles for equity and social justice.

Contributors from around the world (from India to the Netherlands and USA) grapple with ethical dilemmas and tensions, including how to: respect and learn from Indigenous values and philosophies; challenge environmental destruction; gain consent in divided communities; maintain or breach professional boundaries; and develop new paradigms for transformative community organising, sustainable development and ethically-sensitive practice.

Offering theoretical frameworks, philosophical perspectives and practical case examples (from sex worker collectives to tree action groups and Australian Indigenous communities) this book is essential reading for community-based practitioners, students and academics.

About this title

About the Authors

Sarah Banks is Co-Director for the Centre for Social Justice and Community Action and a Professor in the School of Applied Social Sciences at Durham University.

Peter Westoby is a Senior Lecturer in Community Development at the University of Queensland and a Senior Research Associate at the Centre for Development Support at the University of Free State, South Africa.

Edition details

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 144734510X
• ISBN 13: 9781447345107
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 228
• Editor: Banks Sarah, Westoby Peter