Community empowerment : a reader in participation and development

Craig, Gary. (Added Author). Mayo, Marjorie. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 1856493377 (Hb)
ISBN: 1856493385 (Pb)
Physical Description: print
229 p. ; 23 cm.
Publisher: London ; Atlantic Highlands, N.J. : Zed Books, c1995.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Community participation and empowerment: the human face of structural adjustment or tools for democratic transformation? -- Counter-development: possibilities and restraints -- Participatory development: toward liberation or co-optation? -- Disability: emancipation, community participation and disabled people -- Empowerment and aging: toward honoured places for crones and sages -- The voluntary sector challenge to fortress Europe -- The university and empowerment: the European union, university adult education and community economic development with 'excluded groups' -- Self-organization and older people in Eastern Germany -- Community work and the state: the changing context of UK practice -- Community action in the United States -- Community development organizational capacity and US urban policy: lessons from the Chicago experience 1983-93 -- Activism, service provision and the state's intellectuals: community work in Australia -- Community organizing in the Philippines: the experience of development NGO's -- Social reconstruction and community development in the transition to democracy in South Africa -- Participation, empowerment and sexual health in Africa - The Nicaraguan community movement: in defence of life -- Brazilian community development: changes and challenges -- About the contributors.