Theory and Practice of Dialogical Community Development: International Perspectives

by Peter Westoby and Gerard Dowling

Book Overview

This book proposes that community development has been increasingly influenced and co-opted by a modernist, soulless, rational philosophy - reducing it to a shallow technique for 'solving community problems'. In contrast, this dialogical approach re-maps the ground of community development practice within a frame of ideas such as dialogue, hospitality and depth. For the first time community development practitioners are provided with an accessible...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138838217
• ISBN13: 9781138838215
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"