Community Development Journal Advance Access originally published online on December 9, 2008
Community Development Journal 2009 44(1):133-135; doi:10.1093/cdj/bsn038
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Critical Community Practice
University of Hyderabad, India
email: adityamishrahcu@yahoo.com
Hugh Butcher, Sarah Banks, Paul Henderson and Jim Robertson, Policy Press, Bristol, UK, 2007, 184 pp., ISBN 9781861347916, £18.99.
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How do we conceptualize community development? What are the major practices and processes behind the development of communities? What is critical community practice (CCP)? What are its fundamental values? What are the objectives of CCP? How is CCP different from the other approaches of community development? How do we operationalize CCP? Who are the major agents in promoting CCP? Is it true that the process of CCP induces the empowerment of communities? Moreover, how does this process enhance the emancipation of individuals at grassroots level? Finally, what are the