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
[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
Editor's Choice in our April '25 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 '25 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
[OPEN-ACCESS] Richard G Jones examines reciprocity in international aid and development in Timor-Leste in our April '25 issue, expanding on Marshall Sahlins’ typology of reciprocal relationships, and how this produces relationships in aid programmes #CDJ #TimorLeste buff.ly/nXVrwhH
[OPEN-ACCESS] Our Co-Editors Ruth Pearce & Kirsty Lohman write in the Editorial for our April '25 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
Annisa Rizqa Alamri et al review "Asset-based Community Development (ABCD): in Conversation with John McKnight about the Heritage of ABCD and its Place in the World Today (3rd edition)" in our July '25 issue buff.ly/VXEAUi9 #CDJ #BookReviews
Gary Craig reviews "Community development, social action and social planning: a practical guide", edited by Alan Twelvetrees and Russell Todd, in our July issue buff.ly/uV3F4OU #CDJ #BookReviews
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
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
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
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
[OPEN-ACCESS] Geoff Higgins and co-authors write in our July '25 issue on implementability in community development approaches, and the novel taxonomy of principles, conditions and processes for success buff.ly/x4d6vqx #CDJ #Development
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
Audrey Jamal and Jordan Scholten write in our July '25 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
Kola Adeosun writes in our July '25 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
[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
[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
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
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
[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
