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Community Development Journal Advance Access originally published online on July 6, 2005
Community Development Journal 2005 40(3):251-254; doi:10.1093/cdj/bsi054
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Editorial

Chris Miller

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The continuing struggle over the meaning and purposes of ‘community’ is at the centre of this issue of the Journal. Practitioners and theorists of community development have for some time been cautious about the global resurgence of government interest in the concept and its potential for mobilization in the pursuit of a range of policies, including the re-invigoration of democracy. Typically the concern is the extent to which such policies that promote ‘community’ benefit the disadvantaged, excluded and minority groups or whether they signal a withdrawal of public provision and government abdication of responsibility for the meeting of basic needs and the incorporation of activists and organizations concerned with social justice. Alternatively there are those that continue to see the potential in such inclusive strategies or those that promote ‘community’ provision . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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