"This edited collection critically explores the funding arrangements governing contemporary community development and how they shape its theory and practice. International contributions from activists, practitioners and academics consider the evolution of funding in community development and how changes in policy and practice can be understood in relation to the politics of neoliberalism and contemporary efforts to build global democracy from the 'bottom up'. Thematically, the collection explores matters such as popular democracy, the shifting contours of the state-market relationship, prospects for democratising the state, the feasibility of community autonomy, the effects of managerialism and hybrid modes of funding such as social finance. The collection is thus uniquely positioned to stimulate critical debate on both policy and practice within the broad field of community development."--Page 4 de la couverture FUNDING, POWER AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT Contents Series editors’ preface Rethinking Community Development Acknowledgements Abbreviations 1. Funding, power and community development: an introduction Introduction Defining community development: fostering dialogue and debate Funding, power and community development The key themes of the book Conclusion Part 1. New configurations of power and governance 2. Critical issues in philanthropy: power, paradox, possibility and the private foundation Introduction The self-help myth: philanthropy and social change Teaching critical philanthropy: the scholar-practitioner standpoint Conclusions 3. “Walking the tightrope”: the funding of South African NGOs and the governance of community development Introduction The socio-historical context of South Africa’s NGO sector Multisectoral partnerships, NGOs and community development Conclusion 4. The reinvention of ‘civil society’: transnational conceptions of development in East-Central Europe The re-emergence of ‘civil society’ in the last decades of the Cold War Civil society in the aftermath of 1989 A global civil society? The alter-globalisation movement in East-Central European Conclusion 5. Social finance and community development: exploring egalitarian possibilities Introduction Finance, the market and the ‘double movement’ Developments in social finance Social finance investment logics: implications for community development The social and solidarity economy and the demand for social finance The supply of social finance Case studies: Mondragon in the Basque country and BRAC in Bangladesh Conclusions 6. Corporate funding and local community development: a case from the mining industry in Australia Introduction CSR, neoliberalism and development The mining sector and community development in Australia The case of BHP Billiton Community development in Ravensthorpe Conclusion Part 2. Questions of state and grassroots democracy 7. Funding community organising: diversifying sources, democratising civil society Introduction The importance of community organising Models of funding for community organising in the US A review of the debates on funding community organising Relations between state, civil society and market The Community Organisers Programme Conclusion 8. ‘It is time to reterritorialise utopian thinking’: community, the commons and the funding of autonomous movements in Latin America – an interview with Marcelo Lopes de Souza Part 3. Modes of agency and horizons of possibility 9. Keeping the show on the road: a reflective dialogue between a community worker and a funder Introduction Introducing ourselves, the work that we do and why we are drawn to it Perspectives on community development How do we find the right partner? ‘Whoever has the gold makes the rules.’ True or false? Governance and reporting Investing in a fence at the top of the cliff, not just an ambulance at the bottom. Community development requires long-term vision, commitment and patience What does success look like? Keeping the show on the road 10. Local philanthropy and women’s empowerment: the case of Tewa, the Nepal Women’s Fund Introduction Setting the scene: politics and funding in Nepal Tewa: the Nepal Women’s Fund Tewa’s approach to philanthropy Grant making at Tewa Tewa in action: two case studies Building networks between the local and global Conclusion 11. Communities of hope? Gendered re-signification of microcredit in rural India Introduction Everyday resilience and women’s economic roles in Darjeeling Rural women re-signifying risk Sceptical subjectivities and microcredit Conclusion 12. Building alternative communities within the state: the Kurdish Movement, local municipalities and democratic autonomy Introduction Empowering society against the state Communalism and the role of municipalities Funding the development of alternative communities Conclusions and the crackdown on alternative communities References Index
This edited collection critically explores the funding arrangements governing contemporary community development and how they shape its theory and practice. International contributions from activists, practitioners and academics consider the evolution of funding in community development and how changes in policy and practice can be understood in relation to the politics of neoliberalism and contemporary efforts to build global democracy from the 'bottom up'. Thematically, the collection explores matters such as popular democracy, the shifting contours of the state-market relationship, prospects for democratising the state, the prospects for community autonomy, the effects of managerialism and hybrid modes of funding such as social finance. The collection is thus uniquely positioned to stimulate critical debate on both policy and practice within the broad field of community development.
This book critically explores the funding arrangements governing contemporary community development and how they shape its theory and practice. The chapters consider the evolution of funding in community development, and how changes in policy and practice can be understood in relation to the politics of neoliberalism and contemporary efforts to build global democracy from the ‘bottom up’. Thematically, the book explores matters such as popular democracy, the shifting contours of the state–market relationship, prospects for democratising the state, the feasibility of community autonomy, the effects of managerialism, and hybrid modes of funding such as social finance. The book is positioned to stimulate critical debate on both policy and practice within the broad field of community development.
