This book takes up the challenge of the failure of most initiatives
in community-based service delivery to address the significant
philosophical shift that is necessary to create, implement, and
evaluate appropriately these sorts of projects. Challenging the
tendency to focus entirely on practicalities, the authors emphasize
the centrality of philosophy to any successful community-based
undertaking. While fully acknowledging the importance of local
knowledge and the guidance of projects by local people, this volume
shows that these principles are often at odds with the 'Cartesian'
mindset that underpins much project planning, with its emphasis on
objectivity in science and knowledge. Since all knowledge is
mediated by human activity and embedded in language and other modes
of expression, this dualist approach must be reconsidered. A
thorough rethinking of traditional service delivery, which takes
into account issues of data, methodology, and bias together with
questions of generalizability, community, power, and communication,
this book will appeal to scholars of sociology, social policy, and
social work with interests in community-based service delivery.
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