Community Development
After Urban Regeneration
Communities, Policy and Place
Focusing on the history and theory of community in urban policy, and including a unique set of case studies that draw on artistic and cultural community work, After urban regeneration engages with debates on how urban policy has changed and continues to change following the financial crash of 2008
Applying Complexity Theory
Whole Systems Approaches to Criminal Justice and Social Work
This is the first book to explore the application of complexity theory to difficult practice issues in criminal justice and social work and brings together experts in this emerging field to address complexity theory from a range of perspectives, providing a detailed but accessible discussion of the key issues to whole systems approaches.
Arts, Culture and Community Development
Drawing on international examples, this book interrogates the relationship between the arts, culture and community development. Contributors from six continents, reimagine community development as they consider how aesthetic arts contribute to processes of peacebuilding, youth empowerment, participatory planning and environmental regeneration.
Building sustainable communities
Spatial policy and labour mobility in post-war Britain
This book uses historical and contemporary materials to document the ways in which policy-makers, in different eras, have sought to use state powers and regulations to create better, more balanced, and sustainable communities and citizens.
Changing neighbourhoods
Lessons from the JRF Neighbourhood Programme
This report follows the progress of twenty very different neighbourhood organisations across three countries to explore the opportunities and challenges of neighbourhood renewal from a community perspective.
A free pdf version of this report is available online at www.jrf.org.uk
Class, Inequality and Community Development
This book, the second title in the Rethinking Community Development series, argues for the centrality of class analysis and its associated divisions of power to any discussion of the potential benefits of community development.
Co-producing Research
A Community Development Approach
This book shows how community groups can work in partnership with universities to imagine better futures and make them happen, co-producing knowledge to achieve positive change.
Communities, Archives and New Collaborative Practices
Using a wide range of case studies, this edited collection shows how community engagement and co-creation is challenging and extending the notion of the archive.
Community Action and Planning
Contexts, Drivers and Outcomes
Analyses the contexts, drivers and outcomes of community action and planning in the global north: from emergent neighbourhood planning in England to the community-based housing movement in New York, and from active citizenship in the Dutch new towns to associative action in Marseille.
Community cohesion in crisis?
New dimensions of diversity and difference
This book examines how new dimensions of diversity and difference, so often debated in the national context, are emerging at the neighbourhood level.
Community Development
A Critical and Radical Approach
A fully updated edition of this bestselling textbook offers a radical approach to community development taking theories of Gramsci and Freire into the current context. The focus is on putting theory into action for those training, working or managing any social justice practice.