Partnership, the big society and community organizing: Between romanticizing, problematizing and politicizing community

Community Development Journal

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 119-133

  Bunyan, Paul ^a  

^a EDGE HILL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMOCRACY; NEOLIBERALISM; NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION; NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION; SOCIAL CHANGE;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84872409826     PISSN: 00103802     EISSN: 14682656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cdj/bss014     Document Type: Article

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