Government and community development in ireland: the contested subjects of professionalism and expertise

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dc.contributor.authorMeade, Rosie R.en
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-02T13:13:37Z
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dc.date.issued2012en
dc.description.abstractThis paper historicises the recent and ongoing professionalisation of community development in the Republic of Ireland. The term professionalisation refers both to the designation and accreditation of a distinctive community work occupation and a wider set of processes that effect more strategic approaches to the planning, delivery and evaluation of community organisations. The paper reviews some tensions associated with professionalisation; tensions that closely relate to community work's reputation as a “bottom-up” or “participatory” strategy. It also interrogates community development's place as a strategy of government in contemporary Ireland. In so doing it reconsiders the assumed separateness and distinctiveness of the state and community sectors, arguing that the state has been centrally implicated in calling the community sector into being. In their turn community development organisations have shaped and mediated policy delivery on the ground. It is these processes of hybridisation, co-operation, antagonism and struggle that have given professionalisation its momentum.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionAccepted Versionen
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dc.identifier.citationMeade, R.R. (2012) ‘Government and community development in ireland: the contested subjects of professionalism and expertise’, Antipode, 44(3), pp. 889–910. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8330.2011.00924.xen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8330.2011.00924.xen
dc.identifier.eissn1467-8330en
dc.identifier.endpage910en
dc.identifier.issn0066-4812en
dc.identifier.issued3en
dc.identifier.journaltitleAntipodeen
dc.identifier.startpage889en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/16769
dc.identifier.volume44en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherWileyen
dc.rights© 2011 The Author Antipode © 2011 Antipode Foundation Ltd.en
dc.subjectCommunity developmenten
dc.subjectExpertiseen
dc.subjectGovernmenten
dc.subjectPartnershipen
dc.subjectProfessionalisationen
dc.titleGovernment and community development in ireland: the contested subjects of professionalism and expertiseen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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