ABSTRACT
This handbook sets a new research agenda in community development. The contributors redefine existing areas within the context of interdisciplinary research, highlight emerging areas for community development related research, and provide researchers and post-graduate students with ideas and encouragement for future research activity. To do this, the editors have deliberately chosen to frame this book not through a traditional sociological lens of class, race and gender, but through a "Wicked Problems" framework.
Drawing upon the work of 37 international authors, in diverse settings such as West Papua, Peru, the USA and Australia; and with methodologies equally as diverse, from case studies and interviews to the use of music and story-telling, this handbook focuses upon five Wicked Problems: forced displacement; family, gender and child related violence; indigenous marginalisation; climate change and food security; and human survival in the context of disaster and recovery work.
By drawing together leading scholars from community development, social work and social policy, this handbook provides an up to the minute snapshot of current scholarship as well as signposting several fruitful avenues for future research. This book is both an invaluable resource for both scholars and practitioners and an indispensable teaching tool for use in the classroom and in the field.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |19 pages
Introduction
part I|48 pages
Forced displacement
chapter 2|18 pages
Disruptive rights-based community development in protracted urban refugee contexts
chapter 3|14 pages
They’d just “flown away”
chapter 4|14 pages
Underestimating legacy
part II|46 pages
Family, gender and child-related violence
chapter 5|13 pages
What role for community?
chapter 7|16 pages
Preventing violence against women
part III|79 pages
Indigenous marginalisation
chapter 8|16 pages
Storying unarmed insurgencies
chapter 9|13 pages
“Singing on country and singing for country”
chapter 10|15 pages
Complicating dynamics
part IV|41 pages
Food and climate
chapter 13|13 pages
Stories of climate-induced mobility
chapter 15|13 pages
Carving out space for community gardens in Australia
part V|45 pages
Survival development
chapter 16|14 pages
The place of schools in building community cohesion and resilience
chapter 17|14 pages
From “dilemmatic space” towards ecological practice
chapter 18|15 pages
Hurricanes, oil and rising water
part |10 pages
Conclusion