- 280 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
This book, the second title in the Rethinking Community Development series, starts from concern about increasing inequality worldwide and the re-emergence of community development in public policy debates. It argues for the centrality of class analysis and its associated divisions of power to any discussion of the potential benefits of community development. It proposes that, without such an analysis, community development can simply mask the underlying causes of structural inequality. It may even exacerbate divisions between groups competing for dwindling public resources in the context of neoliberal globalisation. Reflecting on their own contexts, a wide range of contributors from across the global north and south explore how an understanding of social class can offer ways forward in the face of increasing social polarisation. The book considers class as a dynamic and contested concept and examines its application in policies and practices past and present. These include local/global and rural/urban alliances, community organising, ecology, gender and education.
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Table of contents
- CLASS, INEQUALITY AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
- Table of contents
- Series editors’ preface
- Rethinking Community Development
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on contributors
- Part 1. Contested concepts of class, past and present
- 1. Class, inequality and community development: editorial introduction
- 2. Competing concepts of class: implications and applications for community development
- 3. Community development in the UK: whatever happened to class? A historical analysis
- Part 2. Class, inequality and community development in context
- 4. Working-class communities and ecology: reframing environmental justice around the Ilva steel plant in Taranto (Apulia, Italy)
- 5. Race, class and green jobs in low-income communities in the US: challenges for community development
- 6. Community development practice in India: Interrogating caste and common sense
- 7. The impact of gender, race and class on women’s political participation in post-apartheid South Africa: challenges for community development
- 8. What happens when community organisers move into government? Recent experience in Bolivia
- 9. Community development: (un)fulfilled hopes for social equality in Poland
- 10. Rural–urban alliances for community development through land reform from below
- PART 3
- Part 3. Reconnecting class and inequality through community development
- 11. Reconciling participation and power in international development: a case study
- 12. Transformative education and community development: sharing learning to challenge inequality
- 13. Community development and class in the context of an East Asian productivist welfare regime
- 14. Community organising for social change: the scope for class politics
- Concluding Chapter. Community unionism: looking backwards, looking forwards
- Index
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