Overview

What makes community development effective? How can we ensure that this work is responsive to the decolonial turn, the call for effectiveness and the need for justice? Highlighting useful practice frameworks for community development workers – both citizens and professionals – to navigate an increasingly uncertain world, Does Community Development Work? calls for a new quality of reflection and reflexivity. It sets out a post-structural, deconstructive and decolonizing perspective on community development. Grounded in stories of South African history and community development practice – dealing with issues such as housing, land, cooperatives, education, community protests and urban farming – this book combines story, conceptual insight and theoretical discourse. These detailed stories present a wonderful illustration of the global and South African history of community development. The book concretizes the vision of several notable individuals including Steve Biko, Mahatma Gandhi, Es’kia Mphahlele and Neville Alexander, whose writings and actions contributed to community development practice.

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Author:   Peter Westoby ,  Lucius Botes
Publisher:   Practical Action Publishing
Imprint:   Practical Action Publishing
Weight:   0.400kg
ISBN:  

9781788531290

ISBN 10:   1788531299
Pages:   216
Publication Date:   15 September 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

PART I 2. The South African context: The double story 3. Where we are coming from 4. Community development effectiveness – how do we know we know? PART II: INTENTIONS AND IDEAS 5. Reaching for a social reconstruction tradition 6. Reconstructing frameworks for practice PART III: AN ASSEMBLAGE OF STORIES AND POSSIBILITIES 7. Accompanying, horizontal learning and structuring: political practice and the Southern Cape Land Committee 8. Action learning and research, food security and Abalimi Bezekhaya 9. Staged place-based community development and the Hantam Community Education Trust 10. From marginalisation to destiny: anger, violence and community protest in South Africa 11. Informal housing and community development: A historical and human rights approach 12. ‘Seeing like a state’ and neo-colonial cooperative development within South Africa 13. Interlude: In dialogue with Es’kia—the decolonial turn 14. In conclusion: Promissory reflections

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Peter Westoby has been involved in development practice for over thirty years, working as a grassroots practitioner, facilitator and scholar in diverse contexts such as Australia, PNG, the Philippines, Vanuatu, India, South Africa and Uganda. He is currently Associate Professor of Social Science and Community Development at Queensland University of Technology, Australia, and a Visiting Professor at the Centre for Development Support, University of the Free State, South Africa. Lucius Botes is a professor in development studies and the director of research development in the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, at North-West University (South Africa) and a director of the Karoo Development Foundation and he acts as a development and research consultant to international and national organizations, government departments and companies, and is a director/trustee of various NGOs.

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