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  • Ethics, Equity and Community Development

    by Loretta Pyles, Bipin Jojo, Len Collard, Pradeep Narayanan, Jeroen Gradener, Neil Barringham, Ann Walton, Satu Ranta-Trykkoe, Mike De Kreek, Lynda Shevellar, Keith Popple ...
    Series series Rethinking Community Development
    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; ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Participation Pays eBook

    Pathways for post 2015

    Edited by Tom Thomas, Pradeep Narayanan ...
    The processes of international development often mean that beneficiaries have pre-designed programmes imposed upon them. Even the most well-intentioned development projects are often constrained by funding requirements from fulfilling their vision of social justice, with the result that poor, marginalized communities feel even more disempowered and excluded by programmes over which they have no ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Community Development in an Uncertain World

    Vision, Analysis and Practice

    by Jim Ife ...
    In Community Development in an Uncertain World, Jim Ife draws on the principles of social justice, ecological responsibility and post-Enlightenment and Indigenous perspectives to advance new holistic approaches to community development. The book explores the concept of community development on a local and international scale in the context of globalisation and postcolonial theory. Students will ... Read more

    $76.29 USD

  • Anthropology and Development

    Culture, Morality and Politics in a Globalised World

    by Emma Crewe, Richard Axelby ...
    In recent decades international development has grown into a world-shaping industry. But how do aid agencies work and what do they achieve? How does aid appear to the adults and children who receive it? And why has there been so little improvement in the position of the poor? Viewing aid and development from anthropological perspectives gives illuminating answers to questions such as these. This ... Read more

    $44.29 USD

  • Participatory Practice

    Community-based Action for Transformative Change

    by Margaret Ledwith, Jane Springett ...
    In this second edition of a bestselling book, the authors’ unique, holistic and radical perspective on participatory practice has been updated to reflect advances made in the past decade, the impact of neoliberalism and austerity, and the challenges of climate change and the pandemic.Bridging the divide between community development ideas and practice, over half of this innovative book comprises ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Futilitarianism

    Neoliberalism and the Production of Uselessness

    by Neil Vallelly ...
    Series series Goldsmiths Press / PERC Papers
    A proposal for countering the futility of neoliberal existence to build an egalitarian, sustainable, and hopeful future.If maximizing utility leads to the greatest happiness of the greatest number of people, as utilitarianism has always proposed, then why is it that as many of us currently maximize our utility--by working endlessly, undertaking further education and training, relentlessly ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Globalization, Lifelong Learning and the Learning Society

    Sociological Perspectives

    by Peter Jarvis ...
    Series series Lifelong Learning and the Learning Society
    This book critically assesses the learning that is required and provided within a learning society and gives a detailed sociological analysis of the emerging role of lifelong learning with examples from around the globe. Divided into three clear parts the book:looks at the development of the knowledge economyprovides a critique of lifelong learning and the learning societyfocuses on the changing ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Urban Geography

    by Tim Hall, Heather Barrett ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Human Geography Series
    This revised fifth edition not only examines the new geographical patterns forming within and between cities, but also investigates the way geographers have sought to make sense of this urban transformation. It is structured into three sections: 'contexts', 'themes' and 'issues' that move students from a foundation in urban geography through its major themes to contemporary and pressing issues. ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Economic Geography

    Past, Present and Future

    Edited by Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen, Helen Lawton-Smith ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Economic Geography
    The impact of economic geography both within and beyond the wider field of geography has been constrained in the past by its own limitations. Drawing together the work of several eminent geographers this superb collection assesses the current state of knowledge in the sub discipline and its future direction. In doing so, the contributors show how economic geographers have offered explanations that ... Read more

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  • Popular Education Practice for Youth and Community Development Work

    by Rod Purcell, David Beck ...
    Series series Empowering Youth and Community Work PracticeýLM Series
    Drawing on the legacy of Paulo Freire and the insights of Antonio Gramsci, this book provides new ways of working with communities which put people at the heart of the development agenda. In addition, it offers a strong theoretical basis for action and an insight into the practical application of popular education methods and is based upon strong traditions of practice experience from both the ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Participation in Community Work

    International Perspectives

    Edited by Anne Karin Larsen, Vishanthie Sewpaul, Grete Oline Hole ...
    Participation is a key community work method and this text, written by an international selection of authors, covers innovative approaches in community based education and practice. Including real-life case studies of participatory practice, it offers new definitions of community work, organisation and development and will challenge and inspire all those involved in community work practice and ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Urban Planning Imagination

    A Critical International Introduction

    by Nicholas A. Phelps ...
    Urban planning is not just about applying a suite of systematic principles or plotting out pragmatic designs to satisfy the briefs of private developers or public bodies. Planning is also an activity of imagination, with a stock of wisdom and an array of useful methods for making decisions and getting things done.This critical introduction uncovers and celebrates this imagination and its creative ... Read more

    $20.00 USD