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: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415537886
• ISBN13: 9780415537889
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"