Inclusive Communities : a Critical Reader / edited by Andrew Azzopardi and Shaun Grech.

Introduction / Shaun Grech and Andrew Azzopardi -- Understanding Communities / Rebecca Lawthom and Pauline Whelan -- Community Development's Radical Agenda: Social justice and environmental sustainability / Margaret Ledwith -- Spaces for Inclusive Communities: Reflections on contemporary society / Andrew Azzopardi -- People Like US: Queering inclusion, rethinking community / Mark Vicars -- Disability, Communities of Poverty and The Global South: Debating through social capital / Shaun Grech -- Negotiating Stigmatized Identities and Overcoming Barriers to Inclusion in The Transition to Adulthood / Marilyn Clark -- Latin American Women and Inclusion in Public and Private Communities / Monica Rankin -- Economics, Game Theory and Disability Studies: Towards a fertile dialogue / Toshiji Kawagoe and Akihiko Matsui -- Female Asylum Seekers Living in Malta: Approaches to fostering 'inclusive communities' / Maria Pisani -- The Value of Mutual Support Through Client Community in the Design of Psychiatric Treatment and Rehabilitation Programs / James M. Mandiberg and Richard Warner -- Beyond Networked Individualism and Trivial Pursuit: Putting disruptive technologies to good use / Alex Grech -- Please, Just Call us Parents: Engaging with inclusive approaches to researching marginalised communities / Alessandro Pratesi -- New Frontiers in Research: Using visual methods with marginalised communities / Anne Kellock -- Decolonizing Methodology: Disabled children as research managers and participant ethnographers / Dan Goodley and Katherine Runswick-Cole.

The term "Inclusive Communities" has increasingly featured in recent years, at policy, practice and theoretical levels, drawing from different disciplinary standpoints. Much of this has been spurred by efforts at understanding the exclusions confronted by certain populations, to develop the notion of and mechanisms by which communities can include those who are marginalised and/or oppressed, and in some contexts to 'bring back' community as something real or imagined. In spite of this, this deceptive term remains shrouded in epistemological darkness, conveniently endorsed but often little theorised and less understood. This text provides an exciting introductory textbook, drawing academics, policy makers and activists from various fields to theorise, create new and innovative conceptual platforms and develop further the hybrid idea of inclusive communities.

Includes bibliographical references.

English.

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