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Community Development Journal 2008 43(2):259-261; doi:10.1093/cdj/bsn006
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Blair's Community: Communitarian Thought and New Labour

Martin Hoban

Disability Wales/Anabledd Cymru

martin.hoban@btinternet.com.uk

Sarah Hale, Manchester University Press, Manchester and New York, 2006, 213 pp., £55 hardback. ISBN 07190 74126.

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Community workers have always been concerned with the ideological power of the concept of community. We acknowledge its potential to organise oppressed people for collective action and social change. So, with the emergence of Tony Blair and New Labour in the mid 1990s, it came as no real surprise that they were quick to spot its inherent power. In his early speeches, Blair spoke repeatedly about the need to renew community to counter the growing fragmentation of life at local, national and even global levels. He promoted . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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