"What practical contribution can professionals make to social justice, social cohesion and inclusion? This book brings together critical analysis, research and policy debate to offer a model of community-based practice that is reflective, progressive and ultimately transformative." "With consideration of a wide variety of community settings, this comprehensive and readable book demonstrates how important it is to understand the place of community throughout social work activity. This is vital reading for students of social work, community and youth work, and an invaluable resource for practitioners and policy makers at all levels."--BOOK JACKET.

KEITH POPPLE is Professor of Social Work at London South Bank University, UK, and author of Analysing Community Work (Open University Press, 1995) as well as co-editor of two other books. He is a member of the editorial board of the quarterly international journal, Community Development Journal, for which he was editor from 1998 to 2003.

PAUL STEPNEY is Lecturer in Social Work and Social Policy at the University of Wolverhampton, UK and Visiting Lecturer at the University of Tampere, Finland. He is co-editor of Social Work Models, Methods and Theories: A Framework for Practice (Russell House Publishing, 2000).

List of Figures and Tables	p. viii
Acknowledgements	p. ix
The Social Construction of Community	p. 1
Introduction to the Idea of Community	p. 3
Introduction	p. 3
Key Aims	p. 6
The Concept of Community	p. 6
Outline of the Book	p. 10
Conclusion	p. 11
The Contribution of Community Studies and Increased State Intervention in Communities and Neighbourhoods	p. 12
Introduction	p. 12
The Slippery Notion of Community	p. 13
Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft	p. 14
Cities and Community	p. 15
'Coal Is Our Life' - A View of the Working Class World in the 1950s	p. 17
Young and Willmott (1957): The 'Most Widely Read Work of Sociology in Britain'	p. 18
Women and Community	p. 20
Ethnicity and Community	p. 21
Neighbourhood Decline and Renewal	p. 24
Recent Community Studies	p. 28
Summary and Conclusion	p. 31
Rethinking Community - Globalisation, Neo-Liberalism and Inequality	p. 32
Introduction	p. 32
Globalisation	p. 32
Neo-Liberalism	p. 36
Globalisation, Neo-Liberalism, Inequality and Social Problems	p. 38
New Communities	p. 47
What Does This All Mean for Rethinking Community?	p. 48
Summary and Conclusion	p. 51
Community as an Area of Social Policy	p. 53
Community as an Organising Focus for Social Policy	p. 55
Introduction	p. 55
The Rise of Area-Based Policy	p. 56
The CDP Story: An Effective Response to Poverty or Gilding the Ghetto?	p. 58
Two Contemporary Examples of Area-Based Policy - Sure Start and Health Action Zones	p. 64
Area-Based Policy - Towards a Critique	p. 65
What Lessons Can be Learnt from Area-Based Poverty Experiments and What are the Implications for Social Work?	p. 67
Summary and Conclusion	p. 69
Community Care: Promoting an Empowering Service or Using the Market to Contain Costs?	p. 71
Introduction	p. 71
The Historical Legacy - But Whose History?	p. 73
Community Care in the 1980s	p. 74
Assessing the Research Evidence, Including Seminal Research by Davies and Challis (1986)	p. 75
Community Care in the 1990s	p. 77
Contemporary Issues in Community Care	p. 80
The Way Forward - Community Care in the New Millennium	p. 85
Summary and Conclusion	p. 86
Remaking Community: Communitarianism and the Modernisation of the Welfare State	p. 88
Introduction	p. 88
The Rise of Communitarianism in a Global Context	p. 89
Communitarianism - A Critique	p. 92
An Alternative Discourse of Transformatory Community Action - The Collective Struggle for Communities	p. 94
New Labour's 'Third Way' Project to Modernise the Welfare State	p. 96
'Third Way' Communitarian Policy in Action: An Attempt to Readjust the Balance Between Protection and Prevention in Child Care	p. 98
The Reshaping of Social Work - A Paradox at the Heart of the 'Third Way'	p. 101
The Reconstruction of Social Work at 'Tough Love'	p. 103
Summary and Conclusion	p. 106
Social Work and the Community: From Theory to Practice	p. 107
The Theory and Practice of Community Social Work	p. 109
Introduction	p. 109
The Policy Context	p. 111
The Development of Community Social Work Post Barclay - Seeking the Less Travelled Road?	p. 112
A Theoretical Framework for Community Social Work	p. 116
Methods of Intervention in Community Social Work	p. 119
Research Evidence Concerning the Effectiveness of Community Social Work	p. 128
Summary and Conclusion	p. 130
Community Work and Community Action	p. 132
Introduction	p. 132
The Development of the Practice and Theory of Community Work and Community Action	p. 134
Summary and Conclusion	p. 149
Future Possibilities for Community-Based Social Work in an International Context	p. 150
Introduction	p. 150
European Policy Context	p. 154
Theoretical Developments in Social Work: Postmodernism Versus Evidence-Based Practice	p. 155
Towards a More Critical and Community-Based Practice	p. 158
Critical Postmodernist Practice	p. 160
Critical Realist Practice	p. 162
Practice Context One - Community Social Work in Two Areas of the UK	p. 163
Practice Context Two - An Eco-Social Approach to Exclusion in Three European Cities	p. 167
Practice Context Three - Using Critical Practice as a Basis for Community-Based Evaluation and Research in an International Context	p. 169
A Checklist for Critical Community-Based Practice	p. 171
Conclusions	p. 172
Bibliography	p. 176
Index	p. 192
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