@inbook{983fcef69b37489d9a91ed99641f4308,
title = "Community development as counter-hegemony",
abstract = "This chapter examines the relationship between the decline in status of community development, entrenching neoliberal hegemony, and the rise in populism. It does so using a post-structuralist discourse analysis methodology to analyse 74 texts which span national policy debate and the policy and practice within a case-study local authority. The empirical evidence shows that during the administration of the coalition government (2010–15), neoliberal and left-wing populist discourses competed to shape community development debate and practice in England. The chapter calls for community development to unite with left-wing populist strategies to generate and practise counter-hegemonic discourses. However, it also cautions that such discourses can reproduce unhelpful binaries which the community development field must attempt to reconcile.",
keywords = "community development, neoliberal hegemony, populism, national policy debate, coalition government, neoliberal populist discourse, left-wing populism, England, counter-hegemonic discourses",
author = "Andie Reynolds",
year = "2020",
month = dec,
day = "2",
doi = "10.51952/9781447353867.ch013",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781447353836",
series = "Rethinking Community Development",
publisher = "Policy Press",
pages = "227--244",
editor = "Sue Kenny and Jim Ife and Westoby, {Peter }",
booktitle = "Populism, Democracy and Community Development",
address = "United Kingdom",
}