Implementation of community-based rehabilitation in Colombia in mental health: barriers, facilitators, and purposes Abstract. Mental health holds a crucial position within global public health agendas, particularly in the context of developing and implementing community-

Felipe Agudelo-Hernández et al write in Vol. 60, Issue 3 on community-based rehabilitation for mental health conditions in Colombia, and the importance of fostering dialogue between communities and decision-makers in programme implementation buff.ly/JGNn98G #CDJ #MentalHealth

The politics of ward committees in enhancing community development through democratic participation in the perspective of structuration Abstract. The paper aims to explore the politics of ward committees in enhancing community development through participation. In post-1994 South Africa, wa

Nsizwazonke E Yende , Petunia B Mahlangu & Andiswa Mkhwanazi write in our July '25 issue on ward committees in South Africa, and how perceptions of committees as "watchdogs" affect their ability to fulfil their constitutional mandate buff.ly/16xuHVg #CDJ #SouthAfrica

Reproducing poverty through participation: examining the constraints of community development strategies in fostering empowerment and social change Abstract. Community participation is often heralded as a remedy to the disadvantages faced by marginalized people, with the assumption that it catalyses em

Editor's Choice in Vol. 60, Issue 3, Shahzad Khan & Robyn Eversole write on the Rural Support Programmes Network in Northwest Pakistan, and the limits of active participation in catalysing empowerment in community development practice buff.ly/yzm0cOB #CDJ #Pakistan

Community resilience through bottom–up participation: when civil society drives urban transformation processes Abstract. In recent years, bottom–up civil society initiatives have advanced urban transformation processes in Berlin. Following previous research suggesti

Nicolina Kirby, Dorota Stasiak & Dirk von Schneidemesser write in our July '25 issue on Berlin-based civil society initiatives, and the impact on community resilience that bottom-up approaches led by civil society can have buff.ly/ZcXqtBS #CDJ #Resilience

Our CfP for the upcoming special section in Vol.61, Issue 4 of the CDJ is now live! More details available on the CDJPlus homepage cdj.org.uk/call-for-pap... #CDJ #SpecialSection

Our CfP for the upcoming special section in Vol.61, Issue 3 of the CDJ is now live! More details available on the CDJPlus homepage cdj.org.uk/call-for-pap... #CDJ #SpecialSection

Implementability: a taxonomy of community development approaches

[OPEN-ACCESS] Geoff Higgins and co-authors write in our July issue on implementability in community development approaches, and the novel taxonomy of principles, conditions and processes for success buff.ly/x4d6vqx #CDJ #Development

What’s (in) a CBO? Analyzing community representation in the Kenyan aid chain

Maaike Matelski & Lise Woensdregt write in our July '25 issue on community-based organisations in Kenya, the highly-varied forms these organisations take, and how communities are represented in Kenyan aid chains #CDJ #Kenya

Deployment and development of community wealth building in Canadian mid-sized cities

Audrey Jamal and Jordan Scholten write in our July issue on community wealth-building in mid-size Canadian cities, and the lack of embeddedness of CWB practice in economic development policy buff.ly/5lHHEPe #CDJ #CWB

A Freirean understanding of the Venezuelan crisis in Trinidad and Tobago

Kola Adeosun writes in our July issue on the humanitarian crisis in Venezuela and the impacts on Trinidad and Tobago, where many displaced Venezuelans reside, using Paolo Freire’s ideas of critical consciousness buff.ly/H1KRdxm #CDJ #Friere

A Freirean watershed

Peter Mayo writes in our latest Classic Texts article on Ira Shor and Paulo Freire’s "Pedagogy of Liberation. Dialogues on Transforming Education", and the impact of this seminal work on community development and critical sociology buff.ly/9XaClcf #CDJ #ClassicText

Claiming space

Our Co-Editors Ruth Pearce and Kirsty Lohman write in our July '25 Editorial on the claiming of space by community organisations, self-organisations, and how "cracks" can lead to "tiny victories" buff.ly/C5MC4ZS #CDJ #Editorial

It's Not Where You Live, It's How You Live: Class and Gender Struggles in a Dublin Estate

Fergal Finnegan reviews "It's Not Where You Live, It's How You Live: Class and Gender Struggles in a Dublin Estate", edited by John Bissett, in our latest issue buff.ly/zCRdEhj #CDJ #BookReviews

Living with disasters: communities and development in the Indian Sundarbans

Nikita Agarwalla reviews "Living with disasters: communities and development in the Indian Sundarbans", edited by Amites Mukhopadhyay, in our latest issue buff.ly/H0YddCI #CDJ #BookReviews

For, of, and by the community: critical place-based reflections on mangroves regeneration in the Indian Sundarbans

Amrita Sen and co-authors write in Vol. 60, Iss. 4 of the CDJ on mangrove regeneration programmes in the Indian Sundarbans, and how combined institutional/community approaches and knowledge exchange can enhance outcomes, as well as empower communities buff.ly/U1F4qym #CDJ #Sundarbans

Effect of homestead land titling programme on most vulnerable Adivasis: the case of the Lodhas of West Bengal Abstract. India has seventy-five extremely vulnerable tribal communities that are officially recognized as particularly vulnerable tribal groups (PVTGs). C

Sudipta Biswas & Sukumar Pal write in Vol. 60, Iss. 4 of the CDJ on Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups in India, and examines the effect of homestead titling programs in West Bengal on the lives of tribal groups in the state buff.ly/EWJ8mjT #CDJ #India

Application of new genre public art in community empowerment: a case study of Chongqing Tie Lu San Cun Village, China

Guanxi Chen & Min Lee write in our latest issue on community empowerment through New Genre Public Art (NGPA), and how application of new public art forms can enhance community empowerment buff.ly/6Lwa7tN #CDJ #Chongqing

From heavy rains to radical pedagogies: contesting housing injustice and environmental risk in Mauá, Brazil Abstract. In the peripheries of southern metropolises, vulnerable households living in precarious housing often suffer from climatic events such as heavy r

[OPEN-ACCESS] Mateus Lira writes in our latest issue on housing injustice in Mauá, Brazil, and how radical pedagogies have emerged in informal settlements around environmental injustices, and play a fundamental role in territorial contestations buff.ly/Mv37u36 #CDJ #Brazil

Mapas Parlantes: collective visual methods to map and re−/construct urban memories

[OPEN-ACCESS] Cristian Olmos Herrera and co-authors write in our latest Special Section on the intergenerational urban memories of the Chilean community in Vienna, Austria, and the potential of visual methods to construct and re-construct memory buff.ly/3RTvvVY #CDJ #VisualMethods

Pedagogical anarchitectures: critical practices and territorial contestations in the Spatial Academy of Santiago de Chile Abstract. This paper learns from the Spatial Academy at Universidad de Las Américas in Santiago de Chile, reflecting on it as a model of radical pedagogy t

Francisco Vergara-Perucich & Camillo Boano explore radical architectural pedagogies from the Spatial Academy of Santiago de Chile, and the role of architects as social-spatial mediators buff.ly/VA9mDTj #CDJ #Architecture

Spatial thought and radical pedagogies

Isabel Serra & Carolina Meza write in our latest issue on how space shapes human experience, focusing on Mapuche spaces, places and territory, and radical, decolonising pedagogies buff.ly/Xu3y3wD #CDJ #Radical #Pedagogy

Towards situated learning: Luiz Gama Human Rights Clinic and urban realities at the University of São Paulo Law School Abstract. This article critically examines the pedagogical potential of a territorially grounded approach to human rights education. To do so, it analyses

[OPEN-ACCESS] Editor's Choice in our latest issue, Laura Cavalcanti Salatino and co-authors explore the pedagogies of the Luiz Gama Human Rights Clinic, and the benefits of territorially-engaged legal pedagogies buff.ly/3afpSNv #CDJ #Brazil #HumanRights

Radical pedagogies for territorial contestations Abstract. This editorial introduces a Special Section that repositions radical pedagogy at the centre of contemporary territorial contestations. It argues

Francisco Vergara Perucich , Martin Arias-Loyola & Camillo Boano write in the second Editorial for our latest issue, exploring radical pedagogies for territorial contestations, and how pedagogy is a primary site of political praxis in today's world buff.ly/vxWY3iK #CDJ #Editorial

Space, place, and territory This issue opens with a special section on Radical Pedagogies for Territorial Contestations, curated by guest editors Francisco Vergara-Perucich, Martin Ar

Our Co-Editors Ruth Pearce and Kirsty Lohman write in the first Editorial for our latest issue, exploring our latest Special Section, and the topic of place-based community development buff.ly/6xnmRms#CDJ #Editorial

Engendering Democracy in Africa: Women, Politics and Development: Niamh Gaynor, Routledge, London, 2022. 1st edn.

Susan P Murphy reviews "Engendering Democracy in Africa: Women, Politics and Development", by Niamh Gaynor, in our April '25 issue buff.ly/3tnGuM0 #CDJ #BookReviews

Liveable lives: living and surviving LGBTQ equalities in India and the UK

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 '25 issue buff.ly/YHRIfwN #CDJ #BookReviews

Lifeways of families in coffee-growing territories: vulnerability and response capacity

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

‘Finding their voice’: exploring female adolescents’ perspectives and experiences of a youth leadership programme Abstract. In order to increase women’s participation in leadership roles, an understanding of what barriers exist to inhibit female leadership development

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

Empowering emerging leaders: a model public planning academy

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

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

[OPEN-ACCESS] Michael Chambwe & Andrea Saayman write in our April '25 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