From self-help to class struggle: revisiting Coventry Community Development Project’s 1970s journey of discovery

Benjamin Kyneswood; Mick Carpenter

doi:10.1093/cdj/bsx002

From self-help to class struggle: revisiting Coventry Community Development Project’s 1970s journey of discovery

Benjamin Kyneswood, Mick Carpenter

School of Humanities

University of Warwick

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Abstract

This article examines the experiences of the 1970–1975 Coventry Community Development Project in Hillfields as one of four first wave projects, and charts its avowed three stage shift from a consensual, to a pluralist and finally a class structuralist approach, developing a radical theory and practice that helped to shape the wider UK radical Community Development Project movement. While supporting the main features of the structural approach they developed in their 1975 Final Reports, we also raise critical issues that were of importance at the time, and have continuing relevance for community development in the challenging times we now face.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	247-268
Number of pages	22
Journal	Community Development Journal
Volume	52
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/cdj/bsx002
Publication status	Published - 1 Apr 2017

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Publisher Statement: This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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The research for this article was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) ‘Imagine – Connecting Communities through Research’ project (grant no. ES/K002686/2).

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Invitation to Imagine
Kyneswood, B., 12 Nov 2017, Imagine Project - ESRC. 24 p.
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From self-help to class struggle: revisiting Coventry Community Development Project’s 1970s journey of discovery

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