Craig, G., M. Mayo, et al., Eds. (2011). The community development reader: history, themes and issues. Bristol, Policy Press.
The community development reader provides an historical overview of community development in the UK dating from the 1950s, with contributors from community development, social work, education and a range of related disciplines. Part one introduces community development in the UK, part two ('in and against the state') focuses on the period between the 1950s and 1970s, part three ('in and against the market') focuses on the period between the mid 1970s and the early 1990s, and part four ('between the state and the market') focuses on the period between the mid-1990s and the 2000s. A range of different methods are used, including community development as a method of social work, participatory methods, policy analysis, interviews, feminist methods and narrative analysis. In addition to tracing the history of community development in the UK, a number of substantive themes and issues of community development are explored, including working with community groups, community participation, poverty programmes, local planning, community action, the response of community work to racism, equality, education, feminist principles and organising in community work, active citizenship, multiculturalism and community cohesion, disability narratives, global citizen action, health inequalities, the politics of community development, and radical approaches to community development.