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Funding, power and community development /

This edited collection critically explores the funding arrangements governing contemporary community development and how they shape its theory and practice.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: McCrea, Niamh (Editor ), Finnegan, Fergal
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol, UK : Policy Press, 2019.
Colección:Rethinking community development.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro; FUNDING, POWER AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT; Contents; Series editors' preface; Rethinking Community Development; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1. Funding, power and community development: an introduction; Introduction; Defining community development: fostering dialogue and debate; Funding, power and community development; The key themes of the book; Conclusion; Part 1. New configurations of power and governance; 2. Critical issues in philanthropy: power, paradox, possibility and the private foundation; Introduction; The self-help myth: philanthropy and social change
  • Teaching critical philanthropy: the scholar-practitioner standpointConclusions; 3. "Walking the tightrope": the funding of South African NGOs and the governance of community development; Introduction; The socio-historical context of South Africa's NGO sector; Multisectoral partnerships, NGOs and community development; Conclusion; 4. The reinvention of 'civil society': transnational conceptions of development in East-Central Europe; The re-emergence of 'civil society' in the last decades of the Cold War; Civil society in the aftermath of 1989
  • A global civil society? The alter-globalisation movement in East-Central EuropeanConclusion; 5. Social finance and community development: exploring egalitarian possibilities; Introduction; Finance, the market and the 'double movement'; Developments in social finance; Social finance investment logics: implications for community development; The social and solidarity economy and the demand for social finance; The supply of social finance; Case studies: Mondragon in the Basque country and BRAC in Bangladesh; Conclusions
  • 6. Corporate funding and local community development: a case from the mining industry in AustraliaIntroduction; CSR, neoliberalism and development; The mining sector and community development in Australia; The case of BHP Billiton; Community development in Ravensthorpe; Conclusion; Part 2. Questions of state and grassroots democracy; 7. Funding community organising: diversifying sources, democratising civil society; Introduction; The importance of community organising; Models of funding for community organising in the US; A review of the debates on funding community organising
  • Relations between state, civil society and marketThe Community Organisers Programme; Conclusion; 8. 'It is time to reterritorialise utopian thinking': community, the commons and the funding of autonomous movements in Latin America
  • an interview with Marcelo Lopes de Souza; Part 3. Modes of agency and horizons of possibility; 9. Keeping the show on the road: a reflective dialogue between a community worker and a funder; Introduction; Introducing ourselves, the work that we do and why we are drawn to it; Perspectives on community development; How do we find the right partner?