Culture, Community, and Development

This book explores the intersection of culture and community as a basis for locally and regionally based development by focusing on three core bodies of literature: theory, research, and practice.

Introduction 1. Culture, Community and Development: A Critical Interrelationship Theory and Framework 2. A Proposal: Stand for Civic Engagement 3. Intercultural Learning among Community Development Students: Positive Attitudes, Ambivalent Experiences Research 4. Exploring the Dimensional Structure of the Arts in Communities 5. Traditions and Play as Ways to Develop Community: The Case of Korea's Belt-Wrestling Known as Ssireum 6. Irish Diaspora and Sporting Cultures of Conflict, Stability and Unity: Analysing the Power Politics of Community Development, Resistance and Disempowerment Through a Case Study Comparison of Benny Lynch and 'The Glasgow Effect' 7. Tradition, Cultures and Communities: Exploring the Potentials of Music and the Arts for Community Development in Appalachia Practice 8. Strange Bedfellows: Community Development, Democracy, and Magic 9. Working with Young People Through the Arts, Music and Technology: Emancipating New Youth Civic Engagement 10. More than Noise: Employing Hip-Hop Music to Inform Community Development Practice 11. Connecting Industry and the Arts for Community Development: The Art Hop of Burlington, Vermont Index