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Community development is routinely invoked as a practical solution
to tackle a myriad of social problems, even though there is little
consensus about its meaning and purpose. Through a comparative
analysis of competing perspectives on community development since
1968, this book critically examines the contradictory ideas and
practices that have shaped this field in the US and the UK. This
approach exposes a problematic politics that have far-reaching
consequences for those committed to working for social justice.
This accessible book offers an alternative model for thinking about
the politics of community development and so will appeal to
academics, postgraduate students and community development workers.
This book brings together activists, artists and scholars of colour
to show how Black feminism and Afrofeminism are being practiced in
Europe today, exploring their differing social positions in various
countries, and how they organise and mobilise to imagine a Black
feminist Europe. Deeply aware that they are constructed as 'Others'
living in a racialised and hierarchical continent, the contibutors
explore gender, class, sexuality and legal status to show that they
are both invisible - presumed to be absent from and irrelevant to
European societies - and hyper-visible - assumed to be passive and
sexualised, angry and irrational. Through imagining a future
outside the neocolonial frames and practices of contemporary
Europe, this book explores a variety of critical spaces including
motherhood and the home, friendships and intimate relationships,
activism and community, and literature, dance and film.
In the first book of its kind, Bassel and Emejulu explore minority
women's experiences of and resistances to austerity measures in
France and Britain. Minority women are often portrayed as passive
victims. However, Minority women and austerity demonstrates how
they use their race, class, gender and legal status as a resource
for collective action in the face of the neoliberal colonisation of
non-governmental organisations, the failures of left-wing politics
and the patronising initiatives of policy-makers. Using in-depth
case studies, this book explores the changing relations between the
state, the market and civil society which create opportunities and
dilemmas for minority women activists. Through an intersectional
'politics of survival' these women seek to subvert the dominant
narratives of 'crisis' and 'activism'.
Community development is routinely invoked as a practical solution
to tackle a myriad of social problems, even though there is little
consensus about its meaning and purpose. Through a comparative
analysis of competing perspectives on community development since
1968, this book critically examines the contradictory ideas and
practices that have shaped this field in the US and the UK. This
approach exposes a problematic politics that have far-reaching
consequences for those committed to working for social justice.
This accessible book offers an alternative model for thinking about
the politics of community development and so will appeal to
academics, postgraduate students and community development workers.
In the first book of its kind, Bassel and Emejulu explore minority
women's experiences of and resistances to austerity measures in
France and Britain. Minority women are often portrayed as passive
victims. However, Minority women and austerity demonstrates how
they use their race, class, gender and legal status as a resource
for collective action in the face of the neoliberal colonisation of
non-governmental organisations, the failures of left-wing politics
and the patronising initiatives of policy-makers. Using in-depth
case studies, this book explores the changing relations between the
state, the market and civil society which create opportunities and
dilemmas for minority women activists. Through an intersectional
'politics of survival' these women seek to subvert the dominant
narratives of 'crisis' and 'activism'.
This book brings together activists, artists and scholars of colour
to show how Black feminism and Afrofeminism are being practiced in
Europe today, exploring their differing social positions in various
countries, and how they organise and mobilise to imagine a Black
feminist Europe. Deeply aware that they are constructed as 'Others'
living in a racialised and hierarchical continent, the contibutors
explore gender, class, sexuality and legal status to show that they
are both invisible - presumed to be absent from and irrelevant to
European societies - and hyper-visible - assumed to be passive and
sexualised, angry and irrational. Through imagining a future
outside the neocolonial frames and practices of contemporary
Europe, this book explores a variety of critical spaces including
motherhood and the home, friendships and intimate relationships,
activism and community, and literature, dance and film.
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