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Theorizing Community Development
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This paper attempts a parsimonious definition of community development. It proposes that the purpose of community development is the pursuit of solidarity and agency by adhering to the principles of self-help, felt needs and participation. The erosion of solidarity and agency has been a historic process, connected particularly to the rise of industrial capitalism, the nation-state, and instrumental reason. Examples of community development practice as a positive response to the erosion are given from the fields of public health, violence, micro-economic development, and food. It also argues that "place" as a proxy for community has become conceptually as well as practically inadequate, and that effective community development calls for micro-macro coordination.
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- Authors
- Bhattacharyya, J.
- Venue
- Community Development Society. Journal
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2004-03
- Volume
- 34
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 5-34
- ISSN
- 0010-3829 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2048001190
- Cited by
- 344
- References
- 78
- FWCI
- 24.04
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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