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Pushpesh Kumar reviews "Liveable lives: living and surviving LGBTQ equalities in India and the UK", edited by Niharika Banerjea and Kath Browne, in our April issue buff.ly/YHRIfwN #CDJ #BookReviews
November 14, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Pushpesh Kumar reviews "Liveable lives: living and surviving LGBTQ equalities in India and the UK", edited by Niharika Banerjea and Kath Browne, in our April issue buff.ly/YHRIfwN #CDJ #BookReviews
Obeimar B Herrera and co-authors examine the lifeways and territorial innovation approach to sustainable livelihoods in coffee-growing territories, and the contextual responses to external challenges across these territories buff.ly/Rs8tY8c #CDJ #Innovation #Livelihooods
Lifeways of families in coffee-growing territories: vulnerability and response capacity
Abstract. Multilateral and research organizations have developed studies in coffee-growing zones that are focused on sustainable livelihoods; however, the
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November 14, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Obeimar B Herrera and co-authors examine the lifeways and territorial innovation approach to sustainable livelihoods in coffee-growing territories, and the contextual responses to external challenges across these territories buff.ly/Rs8tY8c #CDJ #Innovation #Livelihooods
Shofiqur Rahman Chowdhury & M Rezaul Islam write in our April issue on community empowerment, and the synergies between faith-based organisations and Laverack's domain approach to empowerment, through the case of the Action for Peoples Rights and Livelihoods (APRIL) project buff.ly/DSXd1YY #CDJ
November 14, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Shofiqur Rahman Chowdhury & M Rezaul Islam write in our April issue on community empowerment, and the synergies between faith-based organisations and Laverack's domain approach to empowerment, through the case of the Action for Peoples Rights and Livelihoods (APRIL) project buff.ly/DSXd1YY #CDJ
Gemma Quartarella, Romana Morda & Laurie A Chapin explore the perspectives of female adolescents in a youth leadership programme in Australia, and the importance of "finding your voice" and "not holding back" for becoming agents of social change #CDJ #YouthEmpowerment buff.ly/XZf25B7
November 13, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Gemma Quartarella, Romana Morda & Laurie A Chapin explore the perspectives of female adolescents in a youth leadership programme in Australia, and the importance of "finding your voice" and "not holding back" for becoming agents of social change #CDJ #YouthEmpowerment buff.ly/XZf25B7
Lynn A Mandarano presents a case study of the Citizens Planning Institute in Philadelphia, U.S., analyses the programme through the Community Capitals framework, and discusses the contribution to leadership skills, knowledge and other capitals to enhance engagement #CDJ #USA buff.ly/omWkrTA
November 13, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Lynn A Mandarano presents a case study of the Citizens Planning Institute in Philadelphia, U.S., analyses the programme through the Community Capitals framework, and discusses the contribution to leadership skills, knowledge and other capitals to enhance engagement #CDJ #USA buff.ly/omWkrTA
[OPEN-ACCESS] Michael Chambwe & Andrea Saayman write in our April issue on tourism value chains and ownership in rural communities, and presents an action framework for local participation in value chain businesses for poverty reduction and community empowerment #CDJ #Poverty #Empowerment
A framework for tourism value chain ownership in rural communities
Abstract. Tourism is prevalent in rural areas of South Africa, where natural settings provide attractive opportunities. Despite tourism’s potential to impr
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November 13, 2025 at 12:15 PM
[OPEN-ACCESS] Michael Chambwe & Andrea Saayman write in our April issue on tourism value chains and ownership in rural communities, and presents an action framework for local participation in value chain businesses for poverty reduction and community empowerment #CDJ #Poverty #Empowerment
Editor's Choice in our April issue, Sutiyo Sutiyo writes in our latest issue on the Kasepuhan Ciptagelar, an indigenous group in Indonesia, and the innovation possible in decentralising conflict resolution processes to a local level for positive-sum games in land development #CDJ #EditorsChoice
The struggle for land by indigenous groups: from conflict to cooperation in Kasepuhan Ciptagelar, Indonesia
Abstract. This study discusses the perspective of a positive-sum game in land conflicts involving indigenous groups. It is based on a case study using qual
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November 12, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Editor's Choice in our April issue, Sutiyo Sutiyo writes in our latest issue on the Kasepuhan Ciptagelar, an indigenous group in Indonesia, and the innovation possible in decentralising conflict resolution processes to a local level for positive-sum games in land development #CDJ #EditorsChoice
Lee Martinez et al write in our April issue on the World's Biggest Comic, an art installation in a small Australian community focused on suicide prevention, and a mixed methods evaluation of the community development processes behind its creation #CDJ #SuicidePrevention
Wearing their heart on a wall: the World’s Biggest Comic
Abstract. An arts-based project, using a community development approach engaging people in a community of place to address suicide prevention, is potential
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November 12, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Lee Martinez et al write in our April issue on the World's Biggest Comic, an art installation in a small Australian community focused on suicide prevention, and a mixed methods evaluation of the community development processes behind its creation #CDJ #SuicidePrevention
[OPEN-ACCESS] Sean Lauer, Karen Lok Yi Wong & Miu Chung Yan write in Vol. 60, Issue 2 of the CDJ on situational dynamics and relationship-forming in community development organisations through a scoping review of the literature #CDJ #CommunityDevelopment buff.ly/vMjAXem
Social infrastructure, community organizations, and friendship formation: a scoping review
Abstract. Community organizations are a unique part of the local social infrastructure that provides opportunities for social connections and community bui
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November 12, 2025 at 12:15 PM
[OPEN-ACCESS] Sean Lauer, Karen Lok Yi Wong & Miu Chung Yan write in Vol. 60, Issue 2 of the CDJ on situational dynamics and relationship-forming in community development organisations through a scoping review of the literature #CDJ #CommunityDevelopment buff.ly/vMjAXem
[OPEN-ACCESS] Richard G Jones examines reciprocity in international aid and development in Timor-Leste in our April issue, expanding on Marshall Sahlins’ typology of reciprocal relationships, and how this produces relationships in aid programmes #CDJ #TimorLeste
The gift and the giving: reciprocity in international aid and development in Timor-Leste
Abstract. This paper examines the transactional dynamics of participation in foreign aid and development programs by exploring links between Marcel Mauss’
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November 11, 2025 at 8:18 PM
[OPEN-ACCESS] Richard G Jones examines reciprocity in international aid and development in Timor-Leste in our April issue, expanding on Marshall Sahlins’ typology of reciprocal relationships, and how this produces relationships in aid programmes #CDJ #TimorLeste
[OPEN-ACCESS] Our Co-Editors Ruth Pearce & Kirsty Lohman write in the Editorial for our April issue, on challenges to global community development practice in the Second Trump Era, on bottom-up organising and information-sharing, and the excellent content available in this issue #CDJ #Editorial
Community development in the second Trump era
Ruth has a strong memory of a story once told by her German language teacher when she was a student at secondary school. Her teacher had attended universit
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November 11, 2025 at 4:13 PM
[OPEN-ACCESS] Our Co-Editors Ruth Pearce & Kirsty Lohman write in the Editorial for our April issue, on challenges to global community development practice in the Second Trump Era, on bottom-up organising and information-sharing, and the excellent content available in this issue #CDJ #Editorial
Mick Carpenter reviews "When nothing works: from cost of living to foundational liveability", edited by Edited by L. Calafati, J. Froud, C. Haslam, S. Johal and K. Williams, in Vol. 60, Iss. 1 buff.ly/bzDf48V #CDJ #BookReviews
When nothing works: from cost of living to foundational liveability
This radical and innovative text challenges the current neoliberal economic growth/productivity orthodoxy, as the principal reason for general policy pessi
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November 11, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Mick Carpenter reviews "When nothing works: from cost of living to foundational liveability", edited by Edited by L. Calafati, J. Froud, C. Haslam, S. Johal and K. Williams, in Vol. 60, Iss. 1 buff.ly/bzDf48V #CDJ #BookReviews
Jonathan Silver reviews "Against the commons: a radical history of urban planning", edited by Álvaro Sevilla-Buitrago, in our January issue buff.ly/8OxtDkp #CDJ #BookReviews
Against the commons: a radical history of urban planning
What might you hear if you speak to a resident about urban planning in a neighbourhood somewhere in North America or Western Europe that has experienced in
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November 10, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Jonathan Silver reviews "Against the commons: a radical history of urban planning", edited by Álvaro Sevilla-Buitrago, in our January issue buff.ly/8OxtDkp #CDJ #BookReviews
[OPEN-ACCESS] Tony Blomqvist Mickelsson writes in our January issue on the role that sports clubs can have as sites of community development, illustrated with examples from the Swedish sports movement buff.ly/8EPVrzu #CDJ #Sport
Sports clubs’ role in community capacity development—illustrations from the Swedish sports movement
Abstract. Strong political neoliberal currents in Sweden are directing attention toward communities’ responsibility to address local issues, particularly i
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November 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
[OPEN-ACCESS] Tony Blomqvist Mickelsson writes in our January issue on the role that sports clubs can have as sites of community development, illustrated with examples from the Swedish sports movement buff.ly/8EPVrzu #CDJ #Sport
[OPEN-ACCESS] Jason Wood writes in Vol. 60, Iss. 1, examining the distinctive elements of power and ownership in community organising in England and Wales, and how leadership, relationships, money, democratic behaviours, and actions are distinct enablers in the system buff.ly/qJJbDbe #CDJ
The power to act: dissecting distinctive elements of power and ownership in community organizing in England and Wales
Abstract. This paper considers the continuing evolution in England and Wales of the Alinsky tradition of broad-based community organizing, a process that s
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November 10, 2025 at 12:15 PM
[OPEN-ACCESS] Jason Wood writes in Vol. 60, Iss. 1, examining the distinctive elements of power and ownership in community organising in England and Wales, and how leadership, relationships, money, democratic behaviours, and actions are distinct enablers in the system buff.ly/qJJbDbe #CDJ
Wyvine Bapolisi and co-authors explore the impact of the combined approaches of women's empowerment through village savings and loan cooperatives and men's participation in a reflection group pursuing a gender equity curriculum, and lead to mutually reinforced outcomes buff.ly/7LvOhPq #CDJ
Exploring the impact of combining women’s empowerment through village savings and loans associations with men’s sensitization on gender equity on socio-economic, maternal, and children’s health outcomes
AbstractBackground. The Democratic Republic of the Congo is among the poorest countries in the world with a low gender development index. To help household
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November 9, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Wyvine Bapolisi and co-authors explore the impact of the combined approaches of women's empowerment through village savings and loan cooperatives and men's participation in a reflection group pursuing a gender equity curriculum, and lead to mutually reinforced outcomes buff.ly/7LvOhPq #CDJ
Aideen O’Shaughnessy and co-authors write in our January issue on the involvement of grassroots activist groups in the production of knowledge for policy reform, investigating how abortion rights activists can challenge or inform abortion policy in Ireland buff.ly/jMmUvUS #CDJ #Ireland
Unruly bodies (of knowledge): influencing Irish abortion policy through evidence-based abortion activism
Abstract. The involvement of grassroots activist groups in the production of knowledge used to challenge or inform abortion policy remains underexplored. D
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November 9, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Aideen O’Shaughnessy and co-authors write in our January issue on the involvement of grassroots activist groups in the production of knowledge for policy reform, investigating how abortion rights activists can challenge or inform abortion policy in Ireland buff.ly/jMmUvUS #CDJ #Ireland
Theresa Healy, Christine Callihoo and Annie L Booth write in our Jan '25 issue on community-based food security initiatives and structures in rural, remote and Northern Canadian communities, and coordinated, collaborative approaches buff.ly/wsoh3HJ #CDJ #FoodSecurity
Who’s at the table: an exploration of community-based food security initiatives and structures in a north-central Canadian context
Abstract. This article examines food security initiatives and actors specific to a rural, remote and northern Canadian community, a context found throughou
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November 7, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Theresa Healy, Christine Callihoo and Annie L Booth write in our Jan '25 issue on community-based food security initiatives and structures in rural, remote and Northern Canadian communities, and coordinated, collaborative approaches buff.ly/wsoh3HJ #CDJ #FoodSecurity
Editor's choice in Vol. 60, Iss. 1, Beatriz E Cid-Aguayo and co-authors write on biocultural land use in Chile, people-nature relationships in urban spaces, and partial reconstructions around common goods from natural spaces buff.ly/DPDjHiN #CDJ #InformalSettlements
‘I know how to live from what the hill gives’: biocultural uses, tensions and partial reconstructions around the common goods of the Cerro Caracol urban park
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November 7, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Editor's choice in Vol. 60, Iss. 1, Beatriz E Cid-Aguayo and co-authors write on biocultural land use in Chile, people-nature relationships in urban spaces, and partial reconstructions around common goods from natural spaces buff.ly/DPDjHiN #CDJ #InformalSettlements
M Rezaul Islam, Ifzal Ahmad and Kanamik K Khan investigate community-led initiatives for climate change adaptation in two disaster-affected char land communities in Bangladesh buff.ly/bujM257 #CDJ #Bangladesh
Adapting to climate change in char land: investigating community-led initiatives in Bangladesh
Abstract. The primary objective of this study was to comprehensively examine the types of climate change, including its magnitudes, and impacts, and to ass
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November 7, 2025 at 12:15 PM
M Rezaul Islam, Ifzal Ahmad and Kanamik K Khan investigate community-led initiatives for climate change adaptation in two disaster-affected char land communities in Bangladesh buff.ly/bujM257 #CDJ #Bangladesh
Qian Meng et al write in our January issue on sustainable community development strategies in Puhan, China, and how the Puhan cooperative model has succeeded in rural revitalisation #CDJ #China buff.ly/knNWifd #CDJ #Cooperatives
In search of strategies for rural revitalization in China: Puhan’s approach to sustainable community development
Abstract. Despite the central government’s rural reconstruction programme targeting rural villages, rural communities in contemporary China continue to fac
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November 6, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Qian Meng et al write in our January issue on sustainable community development strategies in Puhan, China, and how the Puhan cooperative model has succeeded in rural revitalisation #CDJ #China buff.ly/knNWifd #CDJ #Cooperatives
Our latest blog post is now live! Find all of the details of our recent event "Community Development in a Turbulent World: Four Challenges", celebrating the 60th anniversary of the CDJ, and held in Melbourne, Australia, on our homepage buff.ly/YiA3uk4 #CDJ #CDJat60
Community Development in a Turbulent World: Four Challenges
On April 10th and 11th, 2025, Deakin University and the Community...
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November 6, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Our latest blog post is now live! Find all of the details of our recent event "Community Development in a Turbulent World: Four Challenges", celebrating the 60th anniversary of the CDJ, and held in Melbourne, Australia, on our homepage buff.ly/YiA3uk4 #CDJ #CDJat60
Niamh McCrea discusses "Identity and Capitalism" (2015) with Marie Moran in our January issue, and her subsequent research, which seeks to productively intervene in what Moran terms the ‘radical confusion’ within contemporary debates on identity politics across academia, activism and popular culture
Untangling ‘identity’ and ‘identity politics’: an interview with Marie Moran
In this article, Community Development Journal book reviews editor, Niamh McCrea, talks to Marie Moran about themes from her book Identity and Capitalism (
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November 6, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Niamh McCrea discusses "Identity and Capitalism" (2015) with Marie Moran in our January issue, and her subsequent research, which seeks to productively intervene in what Moran terms the ‘radical confusion’ within contemporary debates on identity politics across academia, activism and popular culture
Johnson Chun-Sing Cheung writes in our January issue, on refocusing social work education to meet the pressures of contemporary social work, and how antagonistic relationships between stakeholders in the community and the establishment have heralded new social work approaches in Hong Kong #CDJ
Refocusing social work education on community work in Hong Kong: an urgent call
Abstract. A dominant discourse in social work literature and textbooks is that community workers should take a proactive stance to pressure government offi
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November 5, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Johnson Chun-Sing Cheung writes in our January issue, on refocusing social work education to meet the pressures of contemporary social work, and how antagonistic relationships between stakeholders in the community and the establishment have heralded new social work approaches in Hong Kong #CDJ
How do so many people working for free make such expensive and inaccessible research? Our latest TikTok in our academic publishing series looks at this question buff.ly/qNzlEF9 #CDJ #AcademicPublishing #TikTok
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November 5, 2025 at 4:13 PM
How do so many people working for free make such expensive and inaccessible research? Our latest TikTok in our academic publishing series looks at this question buff.ly/qNzlEF9 #CDJ #AcademicPublishing #TikTok