This volume contains 12 essays that evaluate community development in theory and practice. Sociology, anthropology, community organizing, and other academics and practitioners from around the world consider the impacts, opportunities, contradictions, and dilemmas associated with the resourcing of community development and how funding shapes the theory and practice of community development; how communities, community development workers, activists, and funders manage the daily realities of funding; and the relationship between funding and broader economic and political developments. They look at state funding, international grants and aid, corporate funding, and philanthropy, including foundations and community philanthropy, as well as hybrid funding models like microfinance and the self-funding of communities and community-based movements. They emphasize the increased significance of governance in funding community development, the changing role of the state and its impact on grassroots democracy, and the most effective way to create egalitarian social change in the contemporary context of community development. Distributed in North America by University of Chicago Press. Annotation ©2019 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
