Includes bibliographical references.

"Canadian Perspectives on Community Development presents a number of approaches to engaging diverse or marginalized groups in contemporary Canadian society. Founded on a perspective that speaks to differences of context, experience, and identity, it offers an in-depth analysis of community work geared towards advanced study in community practice.

The authors of this collection - recognized leaders in their fields - consider initiatives that address issues of poverty and environmental activism. They explore the work being done with stakeholders that include immigrants and refugees, persons with disabilities, and members of minority linguistic communities, feminist and trans communities, and arts-based community work done with the elderly.

At a moment in time when Canadian communities are more diverse than ever and are facing ongoing pressures from environmental, social and economic changes, this book offers a comprehensive view of the ways community workers engage with and support communities within the ever-shifting context of contemporary society." (Book Cover)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction / Sarah Todd and Sébastien Savard

CHAPTER ONE (Re)creating Recreation and Sport Activities in Indigenous Communities: A Health-Promotion Approach for Social Work / Lynn Frances Lavallée

CHAPTER TWO Supporting Community Connections in Later Life: The Role of Community-Engaged Arts / Elaine Moody and Alison Phinney

CHAPTER THREE Organizing within Communities That Have Experienced Collective Trauma: Tensions, Contradictions, and Possibilities / Bill Lee, Mirna Carnza, Susan McGrath, and Ken Moffatt

CHAPTER FOUR Community Development in Atlantic Canada: Case Studies in Three sectors of Activity in Acadian Communities in New Brunswick / Omer Chouinard, André Leclerc, Julie Guillemot, Maurice Beaudin, Majella Simard et Gilles Martin

CHAPTER FIVE Queering and Querying: Hope for Critical Queer Theory in Community Practice / Dillon Black

CHAPTER SIX Collective Action and Intervention in Quebec / André-Anne Parent and Denis Bourque

CHAPTER SEVEN Poverty, Inequalities, and Collective Intervention Strategies / Yvan Comeau

CHAPTER EIGHT Feminist Organizing in Canada / Claudia Lahaie, Sarah Todd, and Alicia Kalmanovitch

CHAPTER NINE Community Development and Francophone-Minority Communities: Study Based on a Social-Capital Model / Sébastien Savard and Dominique Carbonneau

CHAPTER TEN Immigrant Organizing and the Community / Jane Ku

CHAPTER ELEVEN Community Organizing with Immigrants and Refugees / David Este and Christa Sato

CHAPTER TWELVE Fostering Effective Public Policy for Climate Change and a Renewable-Energy Economy: Policy Inflencing and Capacity Building as Community Practice / Mishka Lysack

CHAPTER THIRTEEN "Nothing About Us Without Us": (dis)Ability Community Development in Nova Scotia / Judy MacDonald, Sarah Cooper, and Melissa Myers

CHAPTER FOURTEEN Critical Perspectives on Community Work with Youth / Katherine Occhiuto and Sarah Todd

Conclusion: The Canadian Context of Community Work / Sarah Todd and Sébastien Savard

Contributors

Issued also in electronic format.