Funding, Power and Community Development
About this eBook
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.
About the author
Niamh McCrea is a lecturer at the Department of Humanities, Institute of Technology Carlow, Ireland where she teaches community development, youth work and adult education, with a particular focus on equality studies.
Fergal Finnegan is now a lecturer at the Department of Adult and Community Education, Maynooth University. His research interests include social movements, popular education, biographical research, social class and equality and higher education.
