Community activation for integral development

As mass global and social media communications spread across the globe, we are seeing a need for change in the way we approach issues of political and economic development.

The effects of these growing communications are that on the one hand we see the significance of place rising, whilst on the other, marginalized people clamor to be heard and identities become increasingly threatened.

Despite more than half a century of attempts to address issues of development, we have seen bleak results.

The approach taken in this book looks at these developments by turning them on their head: instead starting bottom-up with an emphasis on what the author terms 'community activation'.

With a selection of case studies, this volume looks at where community activation can be found and explores how it could evolve and be of use in developing societies at large.