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Ruth Pearce
Kirsty Lohman
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The leading international journal in its field, covering a wide range of topics, reviewing significant developments and providing a forum for cutting-edge debates about theory and practice …
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Latest Special issue: Community Development, the Carceral State and the Necessary Challenge of Penal Abolitionism
The latest Special Issue from the Community Development Journal brings together work that explores and analyses the issues punishment and prisons bring to community development.
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CDJ regularly publish Themed Sections which bring together shorter collections of original articles on a single theme. Read our latest Themed Section on 'Community Development in Social Work Education: Themes for a Changing World.'
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Special issue: Environmental Community Development in the Climate Emergency
This Special Issue of the Community Development Journal brings together writers and activists from a variety of contexts to explore the role community work can play in addressing the 'climate emergency'.
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