'Community' continues to attract the attention of policy makers and scholars.Taking account of changes since the publication of the first edition, this new edition explores the challenges of empowering communities and assesses the lessons for policy and practice of community-based approaches to social disadvantage and exclusion. MARILYN TAYLOR is Emeritus Professor of Urban Governance and Regeneration at the University of the West of England, UK. She is also a Visiting Professorat Birkbeck, University of London and Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute for Voluntary Action Research. INDICE: Introduction - The Changing Fortunes of Community - Community in Policy and Practice - Ideas of Community - Contradictions of Community - Prescribing Community to the Poor - Power and Empowerment - Power in the Policy Process - Experiencing Empowerment - Reclaiming Community - Reclaiming Power - TheChallenge for Communities - The Institutional Challenge - Community Empowerment: Myth or Reality? -
- ISBN: 978-0-230-24264-7
- Editorial: Palgrave MacM
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 376
- Fecha Publicación: 15/07/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés