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Maaike Matelski & Lise Woensdregt write in our latest issue on community-based organisations in Kenya, the highly-varied forms these organisations take, and how communities are represented in Kenyan aid chains #CDJ #Kenya
What’s (in) a CBO? Analyzing community representation in the Kenyan aid chain
Abstract. Within the field of development research and practice, there is a growing realization that interventions aimed at supporting emancipation struggl
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November 27, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Audrey Jamal and Jordan Scholten write in our July issue on community wealth-building in mid-size Canadian cities, and the lack of embeddedness of CWB practice in economic development policy buff.ly/5lHHEPe #CDJ #CWB
Deployment and development of community wealth building in Canadian mid-sized cities
Abstract. In the early 2000s, community wealth building (CWB) emerged as a renewed approach to local economic development. By design, CWB aims to democrati
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November 26, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Audrey Jamal and Jordan Scholten write in our July issue on community wealth-building in mid-size Canadian cities, and the lack of embeddedness of CWB practice in economic development policy buff.ly/5lHHEPe #CDJ #CWB
Kola Adeosun writes in our July issue on the humanitarian crisis in Venezuela and the impacts on Trinidad and Tobago, where many displaced Venezuelans reside, using Paolo Freire’s ideas of critical consciousness buff.ly/H1KRdxm #CDJ #Friere
A Freirean understanding of the Venezuelan crisis in Trinidad and Tobago
Abstract. The Venezuelan crisis, which has seen around 50,000 Venezuelan migrants flee to Trinidad and Tobago, is a continuing humanitarian crisis. While t
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November 26, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Kola Adeosun writes in our July issue on the humanitarian crisis in Venezuela and the impacts on Trinidad and Tobago, where many displaced Venezuelans reside, using Paolo Freire’s ideas of critical consciousness buff.ly/H1KRdxm #CDJ #Friere
Peter Mayo writes in our latest Classic Texts article on Ira Shor and Paulo Freire’s "Pedagogy of Liberation. Dialogues on Transforming Education", and the impact of this seminal work on community development and critical sociology buff.ly/9XaClcf #CDJ #ClassicText
A Freirean watershed
2025 marks the coming into reprint, after so many years, of Ira Shor and Paulo Freire’ s Pedagogy of Liberation. Dialogues on Transforming Education (Shor
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November 26, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Peter Mayo writes in our latest Classic Texts article on Ira Shor and Paulo Freire’s "Pedagogy of Liberation. Dialogues on Transforming Education", and the impact of this seminal work on community development and critical sociology buff.ly/9XaClcf #CDJ #ClassicText
[OPEN-ACCESS] Our Co-Editors Ruth Pearce & Kirsty Lohman write in the Editorial for our April issue, on challenges to global community development practice in the Second Trump Era, on bottom-up organising and information-sharing, and the excellent content available in this issue #CDJ #Editorial
Community development in the second Trump era
Ruth has a strong memory of a story once told by her German language teacher when she was a student at secondary school. Her teacher had attended universit
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November 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
[OPEN-ACCESS] Our Co-Editors Ruth Pearce & Kirsty Lohman write in the Editorial for our April issue, on challenges to global community development practice in the Second Trump Era, on bottom-up organising and information-sharing, and the excellent content available in this issue #CDJ #Editorial
Mick Carpenter reviews "When nothing works: from cost of living to foundational liveability", edited by Edited by L. Calafati, J. Froud, C. Haslam, S. Johal and K. Williams, in Vol. 60, Iss. 1 buff.ly/bzDf48V #CDJ #BookReviews
When nothing works: from cost of living to foundational liveability
This radical and innovative text challenges the current neoliberal economic growth/productivity orthodoxy, as the principal reason for general policy pessi
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November 25, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Mick Carpenter reviews "When nothing works: from cost of living to foundational liveability", edited by Edited by L. Calafati, J. Froud, C. Haslam, S. Johal and K. Williams, in Vol. 60, Iss. 1 buff.ly/bzDf48V #CDJ #BookReviews
Jonathan Silver reviews "Against the commons: a radical history of urban planning", edited by Álvaro Sevilla-Buitrago, in our January issue buff.ly/8OxtDkp #CDJ #BookReviews
Against the commons: a radical history of urban planning
What might you hear if you speak to a resident about urban planning in a neighbourhood somewhere in North America or Western Europe that has experienced in
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November 25, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Jonathan Silver reviews "Against the commons: a radical history of urban planning", edited by Álvaro Sevilla-Buitrago, in our January issue buff.ly/8OxtDkp #CDJ #BookReviews
[OPEN-ACCESS] Tony Blomqvist Mickelsson writes in our January issue on the role that sports clubs can have as sites of community development, illustrated with examples from the Swedish sports movement buff.ly/8EPVrzu #CDJ #Sport
Sports clubs’ role in community capacity development—illustrations from the Swedish sports movement
Abstract. Strong political neoliberal currents in Sweden are directing attention toward communities’ responsibility to address local issues, particularly i
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November 24, 2025 at 8:18 PM
[OPEN-ACCESS] Tony Blomqvist Mickelsson writes in our January issue on the role that sports clubs can have as sites of community development, illustrated with examples from the Swedish sports movement buff.ly/8EPVrzu #CDJ #Sport
[OPEN-ACCESS] Jason Wood writes in Vol. 60, Iss. 1, examining the distinctive elements of power and ownership in community organising in England and Wales, and how leadership, relationships, money, democratic behaviours, and actions are distinct enablers in the system buff.ly/qJJbDbe #CDJ
The power to act: dissecting distinctive elements of power and ownership in community organizing in England and Wales
Abstract. This paper considers the continuing evolution in England and Wales of the Alinsky tradition of broad-based community organizing, a process that s
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November 24, 2025 at 4:13 PM
[OPEN-ACCESS] Jason Wood writes in Vol. 60, Iss. 1, examining the distinctive elements of power and ownership in community organising in England and Wales, and how leadership, relationships, money, democratic behaviours, and actions are distinct enablers in the system buff.ly/qJJbDbe #CDJ
Wyvine Bapolisi and co-authors explore the impact of the combined approaches of women's empowerment through village savings and loan cooperatives and men's participation in a reflection group pursuing a gender equity curriculum, and lead to mutually reinforced outcomes buff.ly/7LvOhPq #CDJ
Exploring the impact of combining women’s empowerment through village savings and loans associations with men’s sensitization on gender equity on socio-economic, maternal, and children’s health outcomes
AbstractBackground. The Democratic Republic of the Congo is among the poorest countries in the world with a low gender development index. To help household
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November 24, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Wyvine Bapolisi and co-authors explore the impact of the combined approaches of women's empowerment through village savings and loan cooperatives and men's participation in a reflection group pursuing a gender equity curriculum, and lead to mutually reinforced outcomes buff.ly/7LvOhPq #CDJ
Aideen O’Shaughnessy and co-authors write in our January issue on the involvement of grassroots activist groups in the production of knowledge for policy reform, investigating how abortion rights activists can challenge or inform abortion policy in Ireland buff.ly/jMmUvUS #CDJ #Ireland
Unruly bodies (of knowledge): influencing Irish abortion policy through evidence-based abortion activism
Abstract. The involvement of grassroots activist groups in the production of knowledge used to challenge or inform abortion policy remains underexplored. D
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November 23, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Aideen O’Shaughnessy and co-authors write in our January issue on the involvement of grassroots activist groups in the production of knowledge for policy reform, investigating how abortion rights activists can challenge or inform abortion policy in Ireland buff.ly/jMmUvUS #CDJ #Ireland
Theresa Healy, Christine Callihoo and Annie L Booth write in our Jan '25 issue on community-based food security initiatives and structures in rural, remote and Northern Canadian communities, and coordinated, collaborative approaches buff.ly/wsoh3HJ #CDJ #FoodSecurity
Who’s at the table: an exploration of community-based food security initiatives and structures in a north-central Canadian context
Abstract. This article examines food security initiatives and actors specific to a rural, remote and northern Canadian community, a context found throughou
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November 23, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Theresa Healy, Christine Callihoo and Annie L Booth write in our Jan '25 issue on community-based food security initiatives and structures in rural, remote and Northern Canadian communities, and coordinated, collaborative approaches buff.ly/wsoh3HJ #CDJ #FoodSecurity
Editor's choice in Vol. 60, Iss. 1, Beatriz E Cid-Aguayo and co-authors write on biocultural land use in Chile, people-nature relationships in urban spaces, and partial reconstructions around common goods from natural spaces buff.ly/DPDjHiN #CDJ #InformalSettlements
‘I know how to live from what the hill gives’: biocultural uses, tensions and partial reconstructions around the common goods of the Cerro Caracol urban park
Abstract. In the south-central Chilean city of Concepción, an irregular urban settlement named ‘Agüita de la Perdiz’ (Partridge Creek) built on the slopes
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November 23, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Editor's choice in Vol. 60, Iss. 1, Beatriz E Cid-Aguayo and co-authors write on biocultural land use in Chile, people-nature relationships in urban spaces, and partial reconstructions around common goods from natural spaces buff.ly/DPDjHiN #CDJ #InformalSettlements
M Rezaul Islam, Ifzal Ahmad and Kanamik K Khan investigate community-led initiatives for climate change adaptation in two disaster-affected char land communities in Bangladesh buff.ly/bujM257 #CDJ #Bangladesh
Adapting to climate change in char land: investigating community-led initiatives in Bangladesh
Abstract. The primary objective of this study was to comprehensively examine the types of climate change, including its magnitudes, and impacts, and to ass
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November 22, 2025 at 8:18 PM
M Rezaul Islam, Ifzal Ahmad and Kanamik K Khan investigate community-led initiatives for climate change adaptation in two disaster-affected char land communities in Bangladesh buff.ly/bujM257 #CDJ #Bangladesh
Qian Meng et al write in our January issue on sustainable community development strategies in Puhan, China, and how the Puhan cooperative model has succeeded in rural revitalisation #CDJ #China buff.ly/knNWifd #CDJ #Cooperatives
In search of strategies for rural revitalization in China: Puhan’s approach to sustainable community development
Abstract. Despite the central government’s rural reconstruction programme targeting rural villages, rural communities in contemporary China continue to fac
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November 22, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Qian Meng et al write in our January issue on sustainable community development strategies in Puhan, China, and how the Puhan cooperative model has succeeded in rural revitalisation #CDJ #China buff.ly/knNWifd #CDJ #Cooperatives
The World Community Development Conference 2026 is coming to Glasgow next year! Join us from the 30th June - 2nd July 2026. We're very proud to be sponsoring the event, and so looking forward to this space for learning, sharing and collaborating
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Three days of challenge, change and collective action at the University of Glasgow, 30 June - 2 July 2026. Register today
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November 22, 2025 at 12:15 PM
The World Community Development Conference 2026 is coming to Glasgow next year! Join us from the 30th June - 2nd July 2026. We're very proud to be sponsoring the event, and so looking forward to this space for learning, sharing and collaborating
Our latest blog post is now live! Find all of the details of our recent event "Community Development in a Turbulent World: Four Challenges", celebrating the 60th anniversary of the CDJ, and held in Melbourne, Australia, on our homepage buff.ly/YiA3uk4 #CDJ #CDJat60
Community Development in a Turbulent World: Four Challenges
On April 10th and 11th, 2025, Deakin University and the Community...
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November 21, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Our latest blog post is now live! Find all of the details of our recent event "Community Development in a Turbulent World: Four Challenges", celebrating the 60th anniversary of the CDJ, and held in Melbourne, Australia, on our homepage buff.ly/YiA3uk4 #CDJ #CDJat60
Niamh McCrea discusses "Identity and Capitalism" (2015) with Marie Moran in our January issue, and her subsequent research, which seeks to productively intervene in what Moran terms the ‘radical confusion’ within contemporary debates on identity politics across academia, activism and popular culture
Untangling ‘identity’ and ‘identity politics’: an interview with Marie Moran
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November 21, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Niamh McCrea discusses "Identity and Capitalism" (2015) with Marie Moran in our January issue, and her subsequent research, which seeks to productively intervene in what Moran terms the ‘radical confusion’ within contemporary debates on identity politics across academia, activism and popular culture
Johnson Chun-Sing Cheung writes in our January issue, on refocusing social work education to meet the pressures of contemporary social work, and how antagonistic relationships between stakeholders in the community and the establishment have heralded new social work approaches in Hong Kong #CDJ
Refocusing social work education on community work in Hong Kong: an urgent call
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November 21, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Johnson Chun-Sing Cheung writes in our January issue, on refocusing social work education to meet the pressures of contemporary social work, and how antagonistic relationships between stakeholders in the community and the establishment have heralded new social work approaches in Hong Kong #CDJ
Charlie McConnell writes in Vol. 60, Issue 1 of the CDJ, examining the history and activities of the International Association for Community Development (IACD), and how the association supports international participatory community development practice buff.ly/FzuolR3 #CDJ #IACD
Celebrating international community development networking
Abstract. The International Association for Community Development (IACD) is the global multi-disciplinary network for those who work in this field. The ass
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November 20, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Charlie McConnell writes in Vol. 60, Issue 1 of the CDJ, examining the history and activities of the International Association for Community Development (IACD), and how the association supports international participatory community development practice buff.ly/FzuolR3 #CDJ #IACD
The World Community Development Conference 2026 is coming to Glasgow next year! Join us from the 30th June - 2nd July 2026, at the James McCune Smith Learning Hub. We're very proud to be sponsoring the event, rooted in the values of justice, participation, and community empowerment buff.ly/MmfThqQ
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Three days of challenge, change and collective action at the University of Glasgow, 30 June - 2 July 2026. Register today
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November 20, 2025 at 4:13 PM
The World Community Development Conference 2026 is coming to Glasgow next year! Join us from the 30th June - 2nd July 2026, at the James McCune Smith Learning Hub. We're very proud to be sponsoring the event, rooted in the values of justice, participation, and community empowerment buff.ly/MmfThqQ
What's up with the dude wall? Órla O'Donovan writes on the prevalence of portraiture of former male university presidents and notaries in university buildings, and the place these structures have in contemporary public universities struggling to break historic links to elitism and extractivism #CDJ
University ‘dude walls’ must fall
Recently I attended one of the weekly public concerts hosted by University College Cork (UCC) as part of its community engagement activities. Although the
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November 20, 2025 at 12:15 PM
What's up with the dude wall? Órla O'Donovan writes on the prevalence of portraiture of former male university presidents and notaries in university buildings, and the place these structures have in contemporary public universities struggling to break historic links to elitism and extractivism #CDJ
[OPEN-ACCESS] Our co-Editors Ruth Pearce and Kirsty Lohman write in the Editorial for our January issue, on the upcoming 60th anniversary of the Journal, and on the changes in society seen in the lifetime of the journal buff.ly/iQk6qwL #CDJ #Editorial
Towards 60 years of CDJ
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November 19, 2025 at 8:18 PM
[OPEN-ACCESS] Our co-Editors Ruth Pearce and Kirsty Lohman write in the Editorial for our January issue, on the upcoming 60th anniversary of the Journal, and on the changes in society seen in the lifetime of the journal buff.ly/iQk6qwL #CDJ #Editorial
Annisa Rizqa Alamri et al review "Asset-based Community Development (ABCD): in Conversation with John McKnight about the Heritage of ABCD and its Place in the World Today (3rd edition)" in our latest issue buff.ly/VXEAUi9 #CDJ #BookReview
Asset-based Community Development (ABCD): in Conversation with John McKnight about the Heritage of ABCD and its Place in the World Today (3rd edition)
The asset-based approach incorporates new, more holistic, and creative ways of looking at reality, such as seeing the glass half full, appreciating what ha
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November 19, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Annisa Rizqa Alamri et al review "Asset-based Community Development (ABCD): in Conversation with John McKnight about the Heritage of ABCD and its Place in the World Today (3rd edition)" in our latest issue buff.ly/VXEAUi9 #CDJ #BookReview
Gary Craig reviews "Community development, social action and social planning: a practical guide", edited by Alan Twelvetrees and Russell Todd, in our July issue buff.ly/uV3F4OU #CDJ #BookReviews
Community development, social action and social planning: a practical guide
As someone active in various roles in the broad community development field for over fifty years, I have seen various editions of this book – this is the s
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November 19, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Gary Craig reviews "Community development, social action and social planning: a practical guide", edited by Alan Twelvetrees and Russell Todd, in our July issue buff.ly/uV3F4OU #CDJ #BookReviews