ABSTRACT
Community development as practice is evident in both industrialising and industrialised countries, but it is a contentious term. Community development in the UK is then concerned with issues of powerlessness and disadvantage. This chapter considers the impact of globalisation and the neoliberal agenda on community developments in the United Kingdom (UK). It focuses on experiences in the UK; the issues presented here are often encountered in other countries. Consideration is then given to the role that the UK government has played in encouraging the employment of community development strategies in areas of economic deprivation in order to meet key goals and targets. The chapter addresses challenges to globalisation and considers how two communities in the UK have attempted to resist the effects of an economic order that has upheld the principle of market supremacy, and where local people's real needs have been brushed aside.
