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<p><span style="font-size:16pt; font-family:Times; font-weight:700"><font color="#007f00">Prof. Jim Ife, Victoria University </font></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:16pt; font-family:Times; font-weight:700; font-style:italic"><font color="#007f00">Community Development: Past, Present and Future</font></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:'Times'">The world is now experiencing a series of major crises – economic, environmental, food, water, etc, and the inevitable corresponding political crises – and this at a time when new technology and social media
are transforming the ways we relate to each other, and the very idea of ‘community’. At this time the idea of community development, as traditionally understood, is problematic.
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:'Times'">There are four historical strands to traditional understandings of community development. One is the social justice tradition, seeing community development as a way of bringing about a fair society, and addressing
social problems. Another is the agenda of economic development, especially in the international development field. A third is the planning tradition, seeing the idea of community itself as intrinsically valuable, and as a necessary correction to the individualisation
and fragmentation of modern life. The fourth is the ecological tradition, seeing community as the most sustainable form of living, and as necessary if we are to deal with present and future ecological crises.
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:'Times'">These four imply different ontologies, and are not always compatible in contemporary community development. Yet it will be important to incorporate these different traditions in the future trajectory of community
development from this time of crisis. Each raises different issues for researchers and practitioners. </span></p>
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<div>Dr Nicole Oke</div>
<div>Lecturer, Sociology and Community Development</div>
<div>College of Arts</div>
<div>Victoria University</div>
<div>PO Box 14428</div>
<div>Melbourne VIC 8001.</div>
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<div>Nicole.oke@vu.edu.au</div>
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<div>03 9919 4751</div>
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<div>http://communityidentity.com.au/</div>
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