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  • Access to Justice for Disadvantaged Communities

    by Marjorie Mayo, Gerald Koessl, Matthew Scott, Imogen Slater ...
    EPUB and EPDF available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Access to justice for all, regardless of the ability to pay, has been a core democratic value. But this basic human right has come under threat through wider processes of restructuring, with an increasingly market-led approach to the provision of welfare. Professionals and volunteers in Law Centres in Britain are struggling to provide ... Read more

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  • Decolonising Community Education and Development

    Understanding the Past, Learning for the Future

    by Marjorie Mayo ...
    It is vital that we decolonise community education and development – learning from the past in order to challenge current discrimination and oppression more effectively. In this book, Marjorie Mayo identifies ways of developing more inclusive policies and practices, working towards social justice for the future. She also tackles the pervasive influence of the ‘culture wars’ undermining work in ... Read more

    $41.59 CAD

  • Global Citizens

    Social Movements and the Challenge of Globalization

    by Marjorie Mayo ...
    The dawn of the twenty-first century has been accompanied by an upsurge of anti-capitalist campaigning, challenging the very basis of the New World Economic order. Dramatic events such as the protests from Seattle to Genoa, have captured media headlines. But media headlines leave key questions unanswered, questions about the ultimate significance of the challenges posed by global social movements ... Read more

    $51.49 CAD

  • Community-based Learning and Social Movements

    Popular Education in a Populist Age

    by Marjorie Mayo ...
    The rise of Far Right populism poses major challenges for communities, exacerbating divisions, hate speech and hate crime. This book shows how communities and social justice movements can effectively tackle these issues, working together to mitigate their underlying causes and more immediate manifestations.Showing that community-based learning is integral to the development of strategies to ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Changing Communities

    Stories of Migration, Displacement and Solidarities

    by Marjorie Mayo ...
    Issues of displacement and dispossession have become defining characteristics of a globalised 21st century. People are moving within and across national borders, whether displaced, relocated or moving in search of better livelihoods.This book brings theoretical understandings of migration and displacement together with empirical illustrations of the creative, cultural ways in which communities ... Read more

    $45.59 CAD

  • Globalizing Citizens

    New Dynamics of Inclusion and Exclusion

    by Marjorie Mayo, Melissa Leach, Angela Alonso, Rajesh Tandon, Ian Scoones, Saturnino M. Borras, Steven Robins, Peter Newell CSGR, Rosalba Icaza, Rebecca Cassidy0, Rebecca Napier-Moore1, Jennifer C. Franco2, Julie Thekkudan3, Linda Waldman4, Lyla Mehta5, Marcelo Saguier6 ...
    Series series Claiming Citizenship
    Globalization has given rise to new meanings of citizenship. Just as they are tied together by global production, trade and finance, citizens in every nation are linked by the institutions of global governance, bringing new dynamics of inclusion and exclusion. For some, globalization provides a sense of solidarity that inspires them to join transnational movements to claim rights from global ... Read more

    $45.39 CAD

  • Challenging The Third Sector

    Global Prospects For Active Citizenship

    by Sue Kenny, Marilyn Taylor, Jenny Onyx, Marjorie Mayo ...
    This is the first book to explore the different relationships between active citizenship and civil society, particularly the third sector within civil society. In what ways can the third sector nurture active citizenship? How have the third sector and active citizenship been constructed and reconstructed both locally and internationally, over recent years? To what extent have new kinds of social ... Read more

    $48.79 CAD

  • Community Action for Change

    by Ray Lees, Marjorie Mayo ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    What was the significance of community action to the Labour movement in Britain during the 1980s? Ray Lees and Marjorie Mayo explore this question in Community Action for Change (first published in 1984), arguing that the Labour movement needed to revitalize its strength in response to the growing dominance of the New Right. They propose that this renewal could be achieved by developing social ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

  • The community development reader

    History, themes and issues

    Edited by Gary Craig, Marjorie Mayo, Keith Popple, Mae Shaw, Marilyn Taylor ...
    Community development emerged as a recognisable occupational activity in the United Kingdom in the 1950s. Since then, whilst struggling to remain true to its basic values it has often been manipulated to serve differing policy and political purposes. This unique Reader traces its changing fortunes through a selection of readings from key writers. It will be invaluable to those pursuing community ... Read more

    $61.59 CAD

  • Women in the Community

    Edited by Marjorie Mayo ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Women in Society
    Originally published in 1977, this lively collection of papers by women involved in community work and community action explores some of the links between the women’s movements and community action at the time, in terms both of the recent developments in women’s thinking and of their practical experience of involvement in community organizations and groups.The book opens with a theoretical chapter ... Read more

    $60.45 CAD

  • Class, Inequality and Community Development

    Edited by Mae Shaw, Marjorie Mayo ...
    Series series Rethinking Community Development
    This book, the second title in the Rethinking Community Development series, starts from concern about increasing inequality worldwide and the re-emergence of community development in public policy debates.It argues for the centrality of class analysis and its associated divisions of power to any discussion of the potential benefits of community development. It proposes that, without such an ... Read more

    $45.59 CAD

  • Whose Government Is It?

    The Renewal of State-Citizen Cooperation

    by Pat Conaty, James Weinberg, Barry Quirk, Hazel Blears, Carol Packham, Zoraida Mendiwelso-Bendek, Marjorie Mayo, Jane Roberts, Matthew Flinders, James Sloam, Marian Barnes, Marilyn Taylor, Graham Smith, David Blunkett, Simon Burall, Anna Coote, Nick Pearce ...
    This book brings together leading figures in democratic reform and civic engagement to show why and how better state-citizen cooperation is necessary for achieving positive social change. Their contributions demonstrate that, while protest and non-state action may have their place, citizens must also work effectively with public bodies to secure sustainable improvements.The authors explain why the ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD