Browsing Community Development Journal Articles by Title
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Radical community development : we do talk politics here
(Unitec ePress, 2015-05-01)Radical community development is explicitly political. It involves a combination of thought (analysis, debate, reflection) and action. Crucial to radical community development is standing with people experiencing oppression ... -
Reflections on forty years of community development
(Unitec ePress, 2016-11-16)My involvement in community development in Auckland spans forty years. It began with community work for Manukau City when the state housing suburbs of Ōtara and Māngere were being created. There was little accommodation ... -
A report from the International Association for Community Development
(Unitec ePress, 2015-11-27)The IACD conference in 2014 in Glasgow, Scotland attracted several hundred community developers from across the world. This year, the international Community Development Journal celebrated its 50th anniversary with a ... -
A Report on the Community Development Conference 2015
(Unitec ePress, 2015-05-01)The Community Development Conference 2015 was an effort by the Department of Social Practice at Unitec and Community Development practitioners to bring together practitioners, academics and students to share their knowledge, ... -
Research report : youth volunteering in Auckland, 2019
(Unitec ePress, 2020-12-17)PREFACE: This research was sponsored by Volunteering Auckland (VA). It is part of their wider research into volunteering by young people (13 to 18 years). Previous work carried out by VA showed that at the age of 18 years ... -
Rethinking the true impact of voluntourism in line with new community development standards
(Unitec ePress, 2018-12-19)The volunteer tourism market now represents over $2 billion annually but its impact is not yet adequately understood. Studies that have considered the impacts of voluntourism on host communities have had some significant ... -
The rise and fall and rise again of an environmental social enterprise. (With apologies to the makers of The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, one of my favourite British comedy series)
(Unitec ePress, 2020-02-24)Ki te kahore, he whakakitenga, ka ngaro te iwi Without foresight or vision the people will be lost In this paper I update earlier work on the case study in social enterprise in waste and recycling, using a community- ... -
State housing in Aotearoa New Zealand : what future after National?
(Unitec ePress, 2017-12-13)New Zealand’s National-led government (2008 to 2017) made no secret of its plans to downsize the state’s housing stock. This downsizing is being achieved through demolitions, transfers and sales. It all started quietly in ... -
Stood loyal right through
(Unitec ePress, 2017-09-11)Taken from Johnny Mitchell’s recorded reflections (1974) – 179 pages of transcripts. A friend of Johnny’s, Rev. Dr Bruce Hucker interviewed him. A group of deregistered waterside workers met the costs of tapes and ... -
Towards shared international standards for community development practice
(Unitec ePress, 2018-08-11)This paper provides the basis for shared international standards for community development practice. It presents the key themes and areas common across community development practice wherever that practice might take place ... -
Transnational Samoan chiefs: views of the Faamatai (Chiefly System)
(Centre for Samoan Studies, National University of Samoa, 2017-03-22)Sāmoans make up the largest Pacific population in New Zealand, the United States and Australia. Family networks remain strong between diasporic Sāmoans and their homeland, and through these networks social, political and ... -
Unfinished business / New Zealand-born dreams / Whakapapa / Some modern poetry from Western Samoa
(Unitec ePress, 2018-08-11)Poetry from Mua Strickson-Pua, an Aotearoa-born Samoan Chinese poet, short story writer, artist, story-teller, comedian, freestyle rapper, social commentator and ordained Presbyterian PIC minister. Aiga Pua from Papa Sataua ... -
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) : a framework for intersectoral collaboration
(Unitec ePress, 2017-09-11)After several years of negotiation and collaboration, the United Nations Goals for Sustainable Development (SDGs) came into effect in January 2016. The 17 goals, which include issues such as ending poverty and hunger, ... -
Using results based accountability to show progress in a long-term community project
(Unitec ePress, 2016-05-02)Violence Free Communities[1] (VFC) is a small New Zealand community development organisation which for 16 years has been running events and campaigns primarily in West Auckland, designed to prevent violence and increase ... -
WHANAKE The Pacific Journal of Community Development
(Unitec ePress, 2015-05-15)Whanake: The Pacific Journal of Community Development, a bi-annual ejournal for practitioners and academics who love community development. The journal mission is to serve as a crucible of democracy, where people come ...