40 Critical Thinkers in Community Development - Softcover

Westoby, Peter; Palmer, David; Lathouras, Athena

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1788530640 ISBN 13: 9781788530644

Publisher: Practical Action Publishing, 2020

Synopsis

40 Critical Thinkers in Community Development invites readers to deepen their practice by reflecting on the roots of their practice; expand their practice through introduction to thinkers who perhaps people have not heard of before; and to disrupt practice by re-thinking taken-for-granted assumptions or habits.

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About the Authors

Peter Westoby has been involved in development practice for over thirty years, working as a grassroots practitioner, facilitator and scholar in diverse contexts such as Australia, PNG, the Philippines, Vanuatu, India, South Africa and Uganda. He is currently Associate Professor of Social Science and Community Development at Queensland University of Technology, Australia, and a Visiting Professor at the Centre for Development Support, University of the Free State, South Africa.

David Palmer currently teaches community development at Murdoch University. Much of his work takes him to remote parts of Central and Northern Australia supporting community-controlled projects carried out by Indigenous groups. Often this means he gets to see first-hand both the challenges facing communities, some of whom had their first contact with non-Indigenous people as recently as the 1970s, and a range of creative and culturally grounded projects.

Athena Lathouras, known as ‘Tina’, had 30 years practice experience in the areas of community development, disability support, and with peak bodies. She is a senior lecturer in the social work programme at the University of the Sunshine Coast; a member of Community Praxis Co-operative and volunteer liaison with Community Development Queensland.

Edition details

• Publisher: Practical Action Publishing
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1788530640
• ISBN 13: 9781788530644
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 278