Challenging Capacity Building: Comparative Perspectives

✍ Scribed by Sue Kenny, Matthew Clarke (eds.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2010
Tongue: English
Leaves: 278
Series: Rethinking International Development Series
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction....Pages 3-20
Developing Capacities and Agency in Complex Times....Pages 21-40
Community Capacity Building: Critiquing the Concept in Different Policy Contexts....Pages 41-66
Capacity Building and Community Development....Pages 67-84
Front Matter....Pages 85-85
Emergent Drivers for Building and Sustaining Capacity in Australian Indigenous Communities....Pages 87-111
Re-imagining Capacity Building When Participation is Constrained: Illegal Burmese Migrants in Thailand....Pages 112-132
The Solomon Islands: Conflict and Capacity....Pages 133-155
Capacity Building in Indonesia: Building What Capacity?....Pages 156-184
Capacity Building and Urban Regeneration in Dublin, Ireland....Pages 185-210
Capacity Building and Community Power....Pages 211-228
Transition Towns and Community Capacity Building....Pages 229-247
Conclusion: Critical Capacity Building....Pages 248-257
Back Matter....Pages 258-269

✦ Subjects

Development Policy; Political Sociology; Popular Science in Education; Development Studies; Political Science; International Relations

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