Have you read our latest blog? Find all of the details of our recent event "Community Development in a Turbulent World: Four Challenges", celebrating the 60th anniversary of the CDJ, and held in Melbourne, Australia, on our homepage buff.ly/YiA3uk4 #CDJ #CDJat60

Niamh McCrea discusses "Identity and Capitalism" (2015) with Marie Moran in our January issue, and her subsequent research, which seeks to productively intervene in what Moran terms the ‘radical confusion’ within contemporary debates on identity politics across academia, activism and popular culture

Johnson Chun-Sing Cheung writes in our January issue, on refocusing social work education to meet the pressures of contemporary social work, and how antagonistic relationships between stakeholders in the community and the establishment have heralded new social work approaches in Hong Kong #CDJ

Charlie McConnell writes in Vol. 60, Issue 1 of the CDJ, examining the history and activities of the International Association for Community Development (IACD), and how the association supports international participatory community development practice buff.ly/FzuolR3 #CDJ #IACD

The World Community Development Conference 2026 is coming to Glasgow next year! Join us from the 30th June - 2nd July 2026, at the James McCune Smith Learning Hub. We're very proud to be sponsoring the event, rooted in the values of justice, participation, and community empowerment buff.ly/MmfThqQ

What's up with the dude wall? Órla O'Donovan writes on the prevalence of portraiture of former male university presidents and notaries in university buildings, and the place these structures have in contemporary public universities struggling to break historic links to elitism and extractivism #CDJ

[OPEN-ACCESS] Our co-Editors Ruth Pearce and Kirsty Lohman write in the Editorial for our January issue, on the upcoming 60th anniversary of the Journal, and on the changes in society seen in the lifetime of the journal buff.ly/iQk6qwL #CDJ #Editorial

Annisa Rizqa Alamri et al review "Asset-based Community Development (ABCD): in Conversation with John McKnight about the Heritage of ABCD and its Place in the World Today (3rd edition)" in our latest issue buff.ly/VXEAUi9 #CDJ #BookReview

Gary Craig reviews "Community development, social action and social planning: a practical guide", edited by Alan Twelvetrees and Russell Todd, in our July issue buff.ly/uV3F4OU #CDJ #BookReviews

Felipe Agudelo-Hernández et al write in our latest issue on community-based rehabilitation for mental health conditions in Colombia, and the importance of fostering dialogue between communities and decision-makers in programme implementation buff.ly/JGNn98G #CDJ #MentalHealth

Nsizwazonke E Yende , Petunia B Mahlangu & Andiswa Mkhwanazi write in our latest issue on ward committees in South Africa, and how perceptions of committees as "watchdogs" affect their ability to fulfil their constitutional mandate buff.ly/16xuHVg #CDJ #SouthAfrica

Editor's Choice in our latest issue, Shahzad Khan & Robyn Eversole write on the Rural Support Programmes Network in Northwest Pakistan, and the limits of active participation in catalysing empowerment in community development practice buff.ly/yzm0cOB #CDJ #Pakistan

Nicolina Kirby, Dorota Stasiak & Dirk von Schneidemesser write in our July issue on Berlin-based civil society initiatives, and the impact on community resilience that bottom-up approaches led by civil society can have buff.ly/ZcXqtBS #CDJ #Resilience

Geoff Higgins and co-authors write in our latest issue on implementability in community development approaches, and the novel taxonomy of principles, conditions and processes for success buff.ly/x4d6vqx #CDJ #Development

Maaike Matelski & Lise Woensdregt write in our latest issue on community-based organisations in Kenya, the highly-varied forms these organisations take, and how communities are represented in Kenyan aid chains #CDJ #Kenya

Audrey Jamal and Jordan Scholten write in our July issue on community wealth-building in mid-size Canadian cities, and the lack of embeddedness of CWB practice in economic development policy buff.ly/5lHHEPe #CDJ #CWB

Kola Adeosun writes in our July issue on the humanitarian crisis in Venezuela and the impacts on Trinidad and Tobago, where many displaced Venezuelans reside, using Paolo Freire’s ideas of critical consciousness buff.ly/H1KRdxm #CDJ #Friere

Peter Mayo writes in our latest Classic Texts article on Ira Shor and Paulo Freire’s "Pedagogy of Liberation. Dialogues on Transforming Education", and the impact of this seminal work on community development and critical sociology buff.ly/9XaClcf #CDJ #ClassicText

Our Co-Editors Ruth Pearce and Kirsty Lohman write in our latest Editorial on the claiming of space by community organisations, self-organisations, and how "cracks" can lead to "tiny victories" buff.ly/C5MC4ZS #CDJ #Editorial

Our latest issue was released in July! Find all the articles from Vol. 60, Issue 3 of the CDJ on our OUP homepage buff.ly/xKPTaNA #CDJ #LatestIssue

Susan P Murphy reviews "Engendering Democracy in Africa: Women, Politics and Development", by Niamh Gaynor, in our April '25 issue buff.ly/3tnGuM0 #CDJ #BookReviews

Pushpesh Kumar reviews "Liveable lives: living and surviving LGBTQ equalities in India and the UK", edited by Niharika Banerjea and Kath Browne, in our April '25 issue buff.ly/YHRIfwN #CDJ #BookReviews

Obeimar B Herrera and co-authors examine the lifeways and territorial innovation approach to sustainable livelihoods in coffee-growing territories, and the contextual responses to external challenges across these territories buff.ly/Rs8tY8c #CDJ #Innovation #Livelihooods

Shofiqur Rahman Chowdhury & M Rezaul Islam write in our April '25 issue on community empowerment, and the synergies between faith-based organisations and Laverack's domain approach to empowerment, through the case of the Action for Peoples Rights and Livelihoods (APRIL) project buff.ly/DSXd1YY #CDJ

Gemma Quartarella, Romana Morda & Laurie A Chapin explore the perspectives of female adolescents in a youth leadership programme in Australia, and the importance of "finding your voice" and "not holding back" for becoming agents of social change #CDJ #YouthEmpowerment buff.ly/XZf25B7

Lynn A Mandarano presents a case study of the Citizens Planning Institute in Philadelphia, U.S., analyses the programme through the Community Capitals framework, and discusses the contribution to leadership skills, knowledge and other capitals to enhance engagement #CDJ #USA buff.ly/omWkrTA

[OPEN-ACCESS] Michael Chambwe & Andrea Saayman write in our April '25 issue on tourism value chains and ownership in rural communities, and presents an action framework for local participation in value chain businesses for poverty reduction and community empowerment #CDJ #Poverty #Empowerment

Editor's Choice in our April '25 issue, Sutiyo Sutiyo writes in our latest issue on the Kasepuhan Ciptagelar, an indigenous group in Indonesia, and the innovation possible in decentralising conflict resolution processes to a local level for positive-sum games in land development #CDJ #EditorsChoice

Lee Martinez et al write in our April '25 issue on the World's Biggest Comic, an art installation in a small Australian community focused on suicide prevention, and a mixed methods evaluation of the community development processes behind its creation #CDJ #SuicidePrevention

[OPEN-ACCESS] Sean Lauer, Karen Lok Yi Wong & Miu Chung Yan write in Vol. 60, Issue 2 of the CDJ on situational dynamics and relationship-forming in community development organisations through a scoping review of the literature #CDJ #CommunityDevelopment buff.ly/vMjAXem

[OPEN-ACCESS] Richard G Jones examines reciprocity in international aid and development in Timor-Leste in our April issue, expanding on Marshall Sahlins’ typology of reciprocal relationships, and how this produces relationships in aid programmes #CDJ #TimorLeste buff.ly/nXVrwhH

[OPEN-ACCESS] Our Co-Editors Ruth Pearce & Kirsty Lohman write in the Editorial for our April issue, on challenges to global community development practice in the Second Trump Era, on bottom-up organising and information-sharing, and the excellent content available in this issue #CDJ #Editorial

Mick Carpenter reviews "When nothing works: from cost of living to foundational liveability", edited by Edited by L. Calafati, J. Froud, C. Haslam, S. Johal and K. Williams, in Vol. 60, Iss. 1 buff.ly/bzDf48V #CDJ #BookReviews

Jonathan Silver reviews "Against the commons: a radical history of urban planning", edited by Álvaro Sevilla-Buitrago, in our January issue buff.ly/8OxtDkp #CDJ #BookReviews

[OPEN-ACCESS] Tony Blomqvist Mickelsson writes in our January issue on the role that sports clubs can have as sites of community development, illustrated with examples from the Swedish sports movement buff.ly/8EPVrzu #CDJ #Sport

[OPEN-ACCESS] Jason Wood writes in Vol. 60, Iss. 1, examining the distinctive elements of power and ownership in community organising in England and Wales, and how leadership, relationships, money, democratic behaviours, and actions are distinct enablers in the system buff.ly/qJJbDbe #CDJ

Wyvine Bapolisi and co-authors explore the impact of the combined approaches of women's empowerment through village savings and loan cooperatives and men's participation in a reflection group pursuing a gender equity curriculum, and lead to mutually reinforced outcomes buff.ly/7LvOhPq #CDJ

Aideen O’Shaughnessy and co-authors write in our January issue on the involvement of grassroots activist groups in the production of knowledge for policy reform, investigating how abortion rights activists can challenge or inform abortion policy in Ireland buff.ly/jMmUvUS #CDJ #Ireland

Theresa Healy, Christine Callihoo and Annie L Booth write in our Jan '25 issue on community-based food security initiatives and structures in rural, remote and Northern Canadian communities, and coordinated, collaborative approaches buff.ly/wsoh3HJ #CDJ #FoodSecurity

Editor's choice in Vol. 60, Iss. 1, Beatriz E Cid-Aguayo and co-authors write on biocultural land use in Chile, people-nature relationships in urban spaces, and partial reconstructions around common goods from natural spaces buff.ly/DPDjHiN #CDJ #InformalSettlements

M Rezaul Islam, Ifzal Ahmad and Kanamik K Khan investigate community-led initiatives for climate change adaptation in two disaster-affected char land communities in Bangladesh buff.ly/bujM257 #CDJ #Bangladesh

Qian Meng et al write in our January issue on sustainable community development strategies in Puhan, China, and how the Puhan cooperative model has succeeded in rural revitalisation #CDJ #China buff.ly/knNWifd #CDJ #Cooperatives

Have you read our latest blog? Find all of the details of our recent event "Community Development in a Turbulent World: Four Challenges", celebrating the 60th anniversary of the CDJ, and held in Melbourne, Australia, on our homepage buff.ly/YiA3uk4 #CDJ #CDJat60

Niamh McCrea discusses "Identity and Capitalism" (2015) with Marie Moran in our January issue, and her subsequent research, which seeks to productively intervene in what Moran terms the ‘radical confusion’ within contemporary debates on identity politics across academia, activism and popular culture

Johnson Chun-Sing Cheung writes in our January issue, on refocusing social work education to meet the pressures of contemporary social work, and how antagonistic relationships between stakeholders in the community and the establishment have heralded new social work approaches in Hong Kong #CDJ

🌠 Happy New Year 2026! Wishing you all the best for the new year, with love from the CDJ team 🌠

Charlie McConnell writes in Vol. 60, Issue 1 of the CDJ, examining the history and activities of the International Association for Community Development (IACD), and how the association supports international participatory community development practice buff.ly/FzuolR3 #CDJ #IACD

The World Community Development Conference 2026 is coming to Glasgow next year! Join us from the 30th June - 2nd July 2026, at the James McCune Smith Learning Hub. We're very proud to be sponsoring the event, rooted in the values of justice, participation, and community empowerment buff.ly/MmfThqQ

What's up with the dude wall? Órla O'Donovan writes on the prevalence of portraiture of former male university presidents and notaries in university buildings, and the place these structures have in contemporary public universities struggling to break historic links to elitism and extractivism #CDJ

[OPEN-ACCESS] Our co-Editors Ruth Pearce and Kirsty Lohman write in the Editorial for our January issue, on the upcoming 60th anniversary of the Journal, and on the changes in society seen in the lifetime of the journal buff.ly/iQk6qwL #CDJ #Editorial