caa a22 4500 39757617X CHVBK 20180308164857.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161202e199604 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1093/cdj/31.2.104 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)oxford-10.1093/cdj/31.2.104 Kenny Susan Deakin University, Victoria Contestations of Community Development in Australia [Elektronische Daten] [Susan Kenny] The history of community development in Australia has always been a history of contested activity. This paper discusses the constructions of community development as a philosophical approach to the world, a form of political activism and an occupation. It examines how these constructions have taken shape on shifting social and economic landscapes. Since the 1980s, community development work has become professionalised and forced to operate within an economic rationalist milieu. The dominant themes for community development in this milieu are deregulation and privatisation. The forms, responses and effects of these themes are discussed. The final section of the paper considers contemporary dilemmas and frustrations in community development and how these may be understood by locating community development identities and practices in an ambiguous relation ship between idioms of modernity and postmodernity. © Oxford University Press Articles nationallicence Community Development Journal Oxford University Press 31/2(1996-04), 104-113 0010-3802 31:2<104 1996 31 cdj https://doi.org/10.1093/cdj/31.2.104 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1093/cdj/31.2.104 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Kenny Susan Deakin University, Victoria NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Community Development Journal Oxford University Press 31/2(1996-04), 104-113 0010-3802 31:2<104 1996 31 cdj Metadata rights reserved CC BY-NC-4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-oxford