CDJ Symposium Programme
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CDJ Symposium Programme

Day 1: Thursday 3rd September 2009

16:30 Delegate arrival and registration

17:30 Welcome Note: Editor and Chair of CDJ

20:00 ‘A Moveable Feast’


Day 2: Friday 4th September 2009
09:30 Arrivals/Refreshment

10:00 Speed Dates on Community Development

10.45 Sessions

Theme 2: Consensus, challenge and conflict
CHAIR: MARTAIN MOWBRAY

  • S Kenny; Unsettling Community Development
  • A Emejulu; Barack Obama, David Cameron and the Crisis of Capitalism: A Transformative Moment For CD?
  • F Verity; Safely looking in the Mirror of Erised? Risk management and insurance

Theme 3: Community, renewal and sustainability

CHAIR: CARL MILOFSKY

  • J Dixon; Nurturing Community Through Food Provisioning
  • L Marais; Local Economic Development And Partnerships

Theme 4: Agency, organising and processes

CHAIR: CHRIS MILLER

  • M Scott; Managing Democracy; Localism In Crisis
  • M Mowbray; Engaging Local Government: CD’s Unfinished Business
  • J Andharia; Fieldwork in CO: Privileging Process of Political Engagement

12:15 Lunch

13.15 Sessions
Theme 1: Migration, identities, citizenship and belonging 

GARY CRAIG

  • B Checkoway; Social Diversity, CD And The New Metropolis
  • P Welsh; CD and Gendered Activism: A Masculinities Question
  • P Smets; CD In Contemporary Ethnic-Pluriform Neighbourhoods

Theme 3: Community, renewal and sustainability

JANE DIXON

  • B Nega & C Milofsky Ethiopa’s Anti-NGO Law
  • I Birkett; Innovation And CD: Creative Approaches To Uncertain Times

Theme 4: Agency, organising and processes

MARJ MAO

  • S Connor; Structure And Agency
  • C Miller; Revisiting the Vexed Question Of Leadership In Community Development

14:45 Break

15:15 Sessions

Theme 2: Consensus, challenge and conflict

MAE SHAW

  • M Carpenter; The capabilities approach and critical social policy: Lessons from the majority world?
  • Vaughn John; CD In a Post-Conflict Context
  • D Datta; Community development for Greater Social Movement

Theme 3: Community, renewal and sustainability

JO HOWARD

  • R Parissi; International Cooperation and CD in Chile
  • M Jimba; Bottom up facilitation to improve water management in Vietnam

Theme 4: Agency, organising and processes

MARILYN TAYLOR

  • H Van Vlaenderen; CD: Building on Contradiction
  • M Bowl; Communities of Practice or Communities of Compliance
  • U Deller; Community Development Projects and Co-Operative Management

16:45 Reflections session

18:00 Close

20:00 Dinner and socialising

Day 3: Saturday 5th September 2009

09:30 Arrivals/Refreshment

10:00 Reflections Session

10:45 Sessions

Theme 2: Consensus, challenge and conflict

CHAIR: DAVE ADAMSON

  • G Craig; Capacity Building: Beyond Community Development
  • M Shaw; Stuck In The Middle
  • A McCabe & M Wilson; Communities: Globalisation And The Politics Of Fear
  • M Taylor & J Howard; The institutionalisation of the community movement: beware of what you wish for?

Theme 4: Agency, organising and processes

  • P Shannon and P Walker; Partnerships and Control
  • J Hicks; Women’s Participation in South Africa
  • J Aimers And P Walker; CD As ‘Knowledge Intersections’ In Contemporary New Zealand

12:15 Lunch

13:15 Open Space

14:15 Visioning the future and role of CDJ

15:30 Close – refreshments and depart