Rethinking Community Development

Environmental Justice, Popular Struggle and Community Development, First Edition
Contributions by Zayneb al-Shalalfeh, Sara Marsden, Shweta Narayan, Dharmesh Shah, Mahmoud Soliman Zwahre, Abeer al-Butmeh, Jeanne Prinsloo, Bobby Peek, Simon I Awad, Mark Butler, Jonathan Langdon, Jennifer Mackay, Daniel Skobla, Richard Filcak, Berenice Celeita, Patrick Kane, Laurence Cox, Hilary Darcy, edited by Anne Harley, Eurig Scandrett

Struggles for environmental justice involve communities mobilising against powerful forces which advocate ‘development’, driven increasingly by neoliberal imperatives. In doing so, communities face questions about their alliances with other groups, working with outsiders and issues of class, race, ethnicity, gender, worker/community and settler/indigenous relationships.

Written by a wide range of international scholars and activists, contributors explore these dynamics and the opportunities for agency and solidarity. They critique the practice of community development professionals, academics, trade union organisers, social movements and activists and inform those engaged in the pursuit of justice as community, development and environment interact.