Theory and Practice of Dialogical Community Development: International Perspectives,New

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This book proposes that community development has been increasingly influenced and coopted by a modernist, soulless, rational philosophy reducing it to a shallow technique for solving community problems. In contrast, this dialogical approach remaps 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 understanding of dialogue and its relevance to their practice, exploring the contributions of internationally significant thinkers such as P. Freire, M. Buber, D. Bohm and H.G Gadamer, J. Derrida, G. Esteva and R. Sennett. What makes the book distinctive is that: first, it identifies a dialogical tradition of community development and considers how such a tradition shapes practice within contemporary contexts and concerns economic, social, political, cultural and ecological. Second, the book contrasts such an approach with technical and instrumental approaches to development that fail to take complex systems seriously. Third, the approach links theory to practice through a combination of storytelling and theoryreflection ensuring that readers are drawn into a practicetheory that they feel increasingly confident has been 'tried and tested' in the world over the past 25 years.

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