The Routledge handbook of community development research / by Lynda Shevellar (Editor), Peter Westoby (Editor)

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TextSeries: Routledge international handbooksPublication details: Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2020Edition: 1st edDescription: xx, 296 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmISBN:

9780367580834

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Community development

DDC classification:

307.14072 SHR 23

Contents:

Introduction;

Chapter 1: Wicked problems and community development – an introductory essay (Lynda Shevellar & Peter Westoby);

Part I. Forced Displacement.

Part II. Family, Gender And Child Related Violence

Part III. Indigenous Marginalisation

Part IV. Food And Climate; Chapter 13: Stories of climate change and mobility from around the world: Institutional challenges and implications for community development (Sarah Henly-Shepard, Karen E McNamara and Robin Bronen);

Part V. Survival Development

Summary: This handbook sets a new research agenda in community development. The contributors redefine existing areas within the context of interdisciplinary research, highlight emerging areas for community development related research, and provide researchers and post-graduate students with ideas and encouragement for future research activity. To do this, the editors have deliberately chosen to frame this book not through a traditional sociological lens of class, race and gender, but through a "Wicked Problems" framework

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Books List(s) this item appears in: Development Studies Discipline

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Copy number	Status	Barcode
Books	KU Central Library	Rack No. : 11 Shelve No. : B-02	General Stack (Issuable Books)	307.14027 SHR 2020 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	C-3 (I)	Available	52132
Books	KU Central Library	Rack No. : 06 Annex : 01 Shelve No. : A-05	Reference Section (Non-Issuable Books)	307.14027 SHR 2020 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	C-1 (NI)	Not For Loan	52130
Books	KU Central Library	Rack No. : 06 Annex : 01 Shelve No. : A-05	Reference Section (Non-Issuable Books)	307.14027 SHR 2020 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	C-2 (NI)	Not For Loan	52131

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction;

Chapter 1: Wicked problems and community development – an introductory essay (Lynda Shevellar & Peter Westoby);

Part I. Forced Displacement.

Part II. Family, Gender And Child Related Violence

Part III. Indigenous Marginalisation

Part V. Survival Development

This handbook sets a new research agenda in community development. The contributors redefine existing areas within the context of interdisciplinary research, highlight emerging areas for community development related research, and provide researchers and post-graduate students with ideas and encouragement for future research activity. To do this, the editors have deliberately chosen to frame this book not through a traditional sociological lens of class, race and gender, but through a "Wicked Problems" framework

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