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Community Development Journal Advance Access originally published online on September 17, 2007
Community Development Journal 2007 42(4):413-421; doi:10.1093/cdj/bsm032
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Editorial

Editorial Community development and the arts: reviving the democratic imagination

Rosie Meade and Mae Shaw

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The title of this special issue was chosen for two reasons. First, to re-affirm that community development has an intrinsic interest in the fostering of a democratic culture within and between communities, and between communities and state institutions. Second, we wish to explore the relationship between the politics of culture including policy analysis and policy formation, and cultural politics, those democratic and aesthetic practices that challenge mainstream democratic models (McGuigan, 1996). We are particularly interested in the potential of community development to catalyse and nourish this relationship. Of course neither of these intentions is free of context, and specific circumstances are crucial in determining the parameters of choice and possibility. This means that there are both re-assuring commonalities and instructive differences in the responses to the title, which are presented in this issue.

Community development takes different forms in different contexts but, generally and historically speaking, it . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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