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Community Development Journal Advance Access originally published online on October 26, 2005
Community Development Journal 2006 41(1):109-113; doi:10.1093/cdj/bsi104
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Voluntarism, community life and the American ethic/Community organizing and community building for health

Robert S. Ogilvie, Indiana University Press, Bloomington and Indianapolis, USA, 2004, 272 pp, ISBN 0 253 34423 9, $35
Community Organizing and Community Building for Health (Second Edition)
Edited by Meredith Minkler, Rutgers University Press, New Jersey, USA, 2005, 489 pp, ISBN 0 8135 3474 7, $29.95

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In recent years we have witnessed the ‘export’ of American social policy, and concepts of community, to both developed and developing nations. This ranges from the adoption of citizen organizing and community development finance approaches in parts of the United Kingdom, through to the promotion of voluntary action and self-help initiatives (often financed by the large American Foundations) in the post-communist states of Eastern Europe and the adoption of social enterprise models in Pacific rim countries following the economic crisis of the late 1990s (Hahn and McCabe, forthcoming).

These two books, however, are a reminder, from a US perspective, that there is no one tradition of community development. Rather, elements of principle and practice remain contested – between those who view it as primarily a process for promoting self help (Twelvetrees, 2002) and others for whom community development is integral to political engagement and social change (Ledwith, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Angus McCabe

Institute for Applied Social Studies, University of Birmingham

Address for correspondence: a.j.mccabe@bham.ac.uk


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