Dialogical Community Development

Community development has been increasingly influenced and co-opted by a modernist, soulless, rational philosophy, which has reduced it to a shallow technique for 'solving community problems' and threatens the very legitimacy of community development as an instrument of society's renewal and fulfilment. Dialogical Community Development is a courageous, ground-breaking attempt to re-draw the parameters and re-map the ground of community development practice. By re-imagining community as dialogue and hospitality, the authors create an alternative vision of community development practice: a deep, soulful exercise that demands a re-examination of personal values, and a respect for and solidarity with the groups within the community. In a series of conversations on transformative community processes, challenges for practitioners, and practical care for the multiple dimensions of community life, the authors set out the details of this vision. Highly recommended for students, scholars, policy makers, activists, and anyone who is interested in bringing more life and collaborative movement into their ways of engaging with community.

Author: Peter Westoby, Gerard Dowling
Publisher: Millipede Books
Published: 03/01/2009
Pages: 234
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 8.29h x 5.98w x 0.56d
ISBN13: 9780975765838
ISBN10: 0975765833
BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Public Policy | Social Services & Welfare
- Social Science | Social Work
- Social Science | Human Services

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