P Westoby
Biographic Data
| ID | 45303 |
|---|---|
| NAME | P Westoby |
| GIVEN NAMES | P |
| FAMILY NAME | Westoby |
| SIGNATURE | WESTOBY P |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9146-895X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 106 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
‘A community development yet-to-come’
This chapter provides a concise overview of the life and career of Jacques Derrida, exploring how his substantive philosophical writing could be relevant to a community development ‘yet-to-come’ and specifically for a renewed praxis. Derrida was a leading intellectual of what is commonly known as deconstruction, and while never explicitly writing to community development, his later work became more overtly political, hence a relevance. Following …
Towards a 'third space' community practice school-aged-care
This article explores how an organisation - Jabiru - integrates a learning 'community' philosophy into its work with children, particularly within what is understood within Australia as School-aged Care (SAC). Distinguished from other organisations, Jabiru understands community is an intentional practice that provides what we find to be a unique third space, one with links to what is sometimes understood as the new neighbourhood. Research observa…
Radicalising Community Development within Social Work through Popular Education—A Participatory Action Research Project
This article reports upon the efforts of three social work/social science academics in partnership with social and community practitioners, at radicalising community development (CD) within social work. The project was motivated by painful political events and processes unfolding around the world in 2017 and led to the design of a participatory action research approach with thirty-three practitioners. Engaging in several cycles of research (pre- …
Reforming global carbon markets or re-imagining alternative climate solutions and sustainabilities? An analysis of selected NGO strategies in Uganda
Carbon markets have emerged globally as a central feature in market based strategies to address the climate crisis. Global trade in carbon is based on the premise that it is possible to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions and stabilise the earth's climate, while at the same time generating new forms of capital accumulation. Amongst carbon market initiatives includes Reduction of Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) type projects…
‘We would rather die in jail fighting for land, than die of hunger’
In this article we take the case study of Green Resources, a Norwegian private company engaged in plantation forestry for the production of timber and the sale of carbon credits in two Central Forest Reserves in Uganda. Drawing on fieldwork conducted during 2012 and 2013 we examine the deployment of community development by the company within the context of what is known as the green economy. Green Resources has been chosen as a case study given …
Privatising development and environmental management
Conceptually located within the literature on privatisation of forestry, and environmental initiatives more broadly, this article examines how companies such as Green Resources in Uganda are achieving legitimacy, or failing to do so, in communities, thereby threatening what is understood as their Social License to Operate. Green Resources makes strong claims related to positive community investment, aimed towards social and environmental outcomes…
Weighing up the evidence
Carbon markets and the new ‘Carbon Violence’
his article examines the expansion of the global carbon economy, including a critical evaluation of its local level impacts. The authors describe the growing international support for carbon markets amongst governments, international institutions and financial investors as a response to human-induced climate change. By putting a price on carbon, proponents argue that carbon markets represent a win-win-win scenario; delivering benefits to local la…
Carbon colonialism and the new land grab
Exploring the interface between community development and cooperative development within South Africa - a challenge of theory, practice and policy
During the past few years within South Africa there has been a proliferation of state-led community development initiatives tasked to form community-based cooperatives. It is into such a context that research was conducted during 2011–13 into how South African community development workers understand and conduct their professional practice in relation to cooperative formation. Findings from the research consider issues such as: a dilemma of state…
I Work with the Community, Not the Parties!' The Political and Practical Dilemmas of South Africa's State-Employed Community Development Workers
During the past few years within South Africa, there has been a proliferation of state-led community work and community development initiatives. Examples include the National Community Development Worker Programme (CDWP), the Community Works Programme and also the Community Practitioner Programme. The backdrop for such initiatives is increasing violent protests within disaffected communities, usually emergent from people's anger at ineffective so…
An investigation into the training of community development workers within South Africa
This article documents a research project that examined the training provided within the South African National Community Development Worker Programme (CDWP), consisting of over 4,000 community development workers (CDWs). Many of the hopes of good community development work are built upon effective education and training of the workers/practitioners. To fail in educating and training CDWs is to ensure failure of programmes. The article reports on…
Dialogue and Disentanglement
The past two years have been declared the years of the ‘custom (kastom) economy’ within Vanuatu, by both the Vanuatu National Council of Chiefs and the National Cultural Centre. Such a declaration is indicative of many ni-Vanuatu citizens concerns to do with the [un]sustainable directions of current macro-economic conditions and strategies of the Vanuatu state. Such conditions and strategies have resulted in a potential ‘social disaster’ due to i…
Re-thinking ‘tradition’ and community development practice
This paper examines and critiques the notion of ‘tradition’ within community development literature. Appreciatively, the paper presents a typology of how the community development literature uses the notion of tradition—as geographically-defined, methodologically-oriented and intellectually-rooted practice; and also discusses the functions of tradition as ‘inspiration’ for community work practice. Critically, the paper discusses the limits of the…
A Critically Informed Perspective of Working with Resettling Refugee Groups in Australia
Although there have been many critiques of the central role that trauma plays in social work practice with refugees, nevertheless trauma discourse maintains a powerful shaping force on service delivery in Australia, intersecting with, and gaining power from, managerial discourses that specify individually focused approaches to practice. The outcome is a double bind for refugee populations, who quickly learn that, in this country, identifying them…
Working with young people from refugee backgrounds in Australia
Social workers who are new to working with young people who are refugees may feel overwhelmed, out of their depth and inclined to defer to powerful psychiatric discourse. Arguing a role for social work engagement with young people as they face the personal, social, communal, cultural, political and economic challenges of settlement, this paper proposes a reflexive, deconstructive and dialogical approach within a broadly ecological model. All sett…
Peaceful Community Development in Vanuatu
Description to be added
Young Refugees Talk About Well‐being
Young people from refugee backgrounds face enormous challenges in the settlement process within Australia. They must locate themselves within a new social, cultural, geographic and adult space, yet also try to find security within the spaces of their own families and ethnic communities. Traumas of the past can mix with painful experiences of the present. The stressors in the lives of these young people can be both complex and diverse. This paper …
Carbon colonialism and the new land grab
Young Refugees Talk About Well‐being
Young people from refugee backgrounds face enormous challenges in the settlement process within Australia. They must locate themselves within a new social, cultural, geographic and adult space, yet also try to find security within the spaces of their own families and ethnic communities. Traumas of the past can mix with painful experiences of the present. The stressors in the lives of these young people can be both complex and diverse. This paper …
A Critically Informed Perspective of Working with Resettling Refugee Groups in Australia
Although there have been many critiques of the central role that trauma plays in social work practice with refugees, nevertheless trauma discourse maintains a powerful shaping force on service delivery in Australia, intersecting with, and gaining power from, managerial discourses that specify individually focused approaches to practice. The outcome is a double bind for refugee populations, who quickly learn that, in this country, identifying them…
Radicalising Community Development within Social Work through Popular Education—A Participatory Action Research Project
This article reports upon the efforts of three social work/social science academics in partnership with social and community practitioners, at radicalising community development (CD) within social work. The project was motivated by painful political events and processes unfolding around the world in 2017 and led to the design of a participatory action research approach with thirty-three practitioners. Engaging in several cycles of research (pre- …
I Work with the Community, Not the Parties!' The Political and Practical Dilemmas of South Africa's State-Employed Community Development Workers
During the past few years within South Africa, there has been a proliferation of state-led community work and community development initiatives. Examples include the National Community Development Worker Programme (CDWP), the Community Works Programme and also the Community Practitioner Programme. The backdrop for such initiatives is increasing violent protests within disaffected communities, usually emergent from people's anger at ineffective so…
Working with young people from refugee backgrounds in Australia
Social workers who are new to working with young people who are refugees may feel overwhelmed, out of their depth and inclined to defer to powerful psychiatric discourse. Arguing a role for social work engagement with young people as they face the personal, social, communal, cultural, political and economic challenges of settlement, this paper proposes a reflexive, deconstructive and dialogical approach within a broadly ecological model. All sett…
Reforming global carbon markets or re-imagining alternative climate solutions and sustainabilities? An analysis of selected NGO strategies in Uganda
Carbon markets have emerged globally as a central feature in market based strategies to address the climate crisis. Global trade in carbon is based on the premise that it is possible to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions and stabilise the earth's climate, while at the same time generating new forms of capital accumulation. Amongst carbon market initiatives includes Reduction of Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) type projects…
Exploring the interface between community development and cooperative development within South Africa - a challenge of theory, practice and policy
During the past few years within South Africa there has been a proliferation of state-led community development initiatives tasked to form community-based cooperatives. It is into such a context that research was conducted during 2011–13 into how South African community development workers understand and conduct their professional practice in relation to cooperative formation. Findings from the research consider issues such as: a dilemma of state…
An investigation into the training of community development workers within South Africa
This article documents a research project that examined the training provided within the South African National Community Development Worker Programme (CDWP), consisting of over 4,000 community development workers (CDWs). Many of the hopes of good community development work are built upon effective education and training of the workers/practitioners. To fail in educating and training CDWs is to ensure failure of programmes. The article reports on…
Dialogue and Disentanglement
The past two years have been declared the years of the ‘custom (kastom) economy’ within Vanuatu, by both the Vanuatu National Council of Chiefs and the National Cultural Centre. Such a declaration is indicative of many ni-Vanuatu citizens concerns to do with the [un]sustainable directions of current macro-economic conditions and strategies of the Vanuatu state. Such conditions and strategies have resulted in a potential ‘social disaster’ due to i…
Re-thinking ‘tradition’ and community development practice
This paper examines and critiques the notion of ‘tradition’ within community development literature. Appreciatively, the paper presents a typology of how the community development literature uses the notion of tradition—as geographically-defined, methodologically-oriented and intellectually-rooted practice; and also discusses the functions of tradition as ‘inspiration’ for community work practice. Critically, the paper discusses the limits of the…
Peaceful Community Development in Vanuatu
Description to be added
Young Refugees Talk About Well‐being
Young people from refugee backgrounds face enormous challenges in the settlement process within Australia. They must locate themselves within a new social, cultural, geographic and adult space, yet also try to find security within the spaces of their own families and ethnic communities. Traumas of the past can mix with painful experiences of the present. The stressors in the lives of these young people can be both complex and diverse. This paper …
Peaceful Community Development in Vanuatu
Description to be added
Working with young people from refugee backgrounds in Australia
Social workers who are new to working with young people who are refugees may feel overwhelmed, out of their depth and inclined to defer to powerful psychiatric discourse. Arguing a role for social work engagement with young people as they face the personal, social, communal, cultural, political and economic challenges of settlement, this paper proposes a reflexive, deconstructive and dialogical approach within a broadly ecological model. All sett…
Dialogue and Disentanglement
The past two years have been declared the years of the ‘custom (kastom) economy’ within Vanuatu, by both the Vanuatu National Council of Chiefs and the National Cultural Centre. Such a declaration is indicative of many ni-Vanuatu citizens concerns to do with the [un]sustainable directions of current macro-economic conditions and strategies of the Vanuatu state. Such conditions and strategies have resulted in a potential ‘social disaster’ due to i…
Re-thinking ‘tradition’ and community development practice
This paper examines and critiques the notion of ‘tradition’ within community development literature. Appreciatively, the paper presents a typology of how the community development literature uses the notion of tradition—as geographically-defined, methodologically-oriented and intellectually-rooted practice; and also discusses the functions of tradition as ‘inspiration’ for community work practice. Critically, the paper discusses the limits of the…
A Critically Informed Perspective of Working with Resettling Refugee Groups in Australia
Although there have been many critiques of the central role that trauma plays in social work practice with refugees, nevertheless trauma discourse maintains a powerful shaping force on service delivery in Australia, intersecting with, and gaining power from, managerial discourses that specify individually focused approaches to practice. The outcome is a double bind for refugee populations, who quickly learn that, in this country, identifying them…
An investigation into the training of community development workers within South Africa
This article documents a research project that examined the training provided within the South African National Community Development Worker Programme (CDWP), consisting of over 4,000 community development workers (CDWs). Many of the hopes of good community development work are built upon effective education and training of the workers/practitioners. To fail in educating and training CDWs is to ensure failure of programmes. The article reports on…
I Work with the Community, Not the Parties!' The Political and Practical Dilemmas of South Africa's State-Employed Community Development Workers
During the past few years within South Africa, there has been a proliferation of state-led community work and community development initiatives. Examples include the National Community Development Worker Programme (CDWP), the Community Works Programme and also the Community Practitioner Programme. The backdrop for such initiatives is increasing violent protests within disaffected communities, usually emergent from people's anger at ineffective so…
Carbon markets and the new ‘Carbon Violence’
his article examines the expansion of the global carbon economy, including a critical evaluation of its local level impacts. The authors describe the growing international support for carbon markets amongst governments, international institutions and financial investors as a response to human-induced climate change. By putting a price on carbon, proponents argue that carbon markets represent a win-win-win scenario; delivering benefits to local la…
Carbon colonialism and the new land grab
Exploring the interface between community development and cooperative development within South Africa - a challenge of theory, practice and policy
During the past few years within South Africa there has been a proliferation of state-led community development initiatives tasked to form community-based cooperatives. It is into such a context that research was conducted during 2011–13 into how South African community development workers understand and conduct their professional practice in relation to cooperative formation. Findings from the research consider issues such as: a dilemma of state…
‘We would rather die in jail fighting for land, than die of hunger’
In this article we take the case study of Green Resources, a Norwegian private company engaged in plantation forestry for the production of timber and the sale of carbon credits in two Central Forest Reserves in Uganda. Drawing on fieldwork conducted during 2012 and 2013 we examine the deployment of community development by the company within the context of what is known as the green economy. Green Resources has been chosen as a case study given …
Privatising development and environmental management
Conceptually located within the literature on privatisation of forestry, and environmental initiatives more broadly, this article examines how companies such as Green Resources in Uganda are achieving legitimacy, or failing to do so, in communities, thereby threatening what is understood as their Social License to Operate. Green Resources makes strong claims related to positive community investment, aimed towards social and environmental outcomes…
Weighing up the evidence
Reforming global carbon markets or re-imagining alternative climate solutions and sustainabilities? An analysis of selected NGO strategies in Uganda
Carbon markets have emerged globally as a central feature in market based strategies to address the climate crisis. Global trade in carbon is based on the premise that it is possible to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions and stabilise the earth's climate, while at the same time generating new forms of capital accumulation. Amongst carbon market initiatives includes Reduction of Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) type projects…
Radicalising Community Development within Social Work through Popular Education—A Participatory Action Research Project
This article reports upon the efforts of three social work/social science academics in partnership with social and community practitioners, at radicalising community development (CD) within social work. The project was motivated by painful political events and processes unfolding around the world in 2017 and led to the design of a participatory action research approach with thirty-three practitioners. Engaging in several cycles of research (pre- …
‘A community development yet-to-come’
This chapter provides a concise overview of the life and career of Jacques Derrida, exploring how his substantive philosophical writing could be relevant to a community development ‘yet-to-come’ and specifically for a renewed praxis. Derrida was a leading intellectual of what is commonly known as deconstruction, and while never explicitly writing to community development, his later work became more overtly political, hence a relevance. Following …
Towards a 'third space' community practice school-aged-care
This article explores how an organisation - Jabiru - integrates a learning 'community' philosophy into its work with children, particularly within what is understood within Australia as School-aged Care (SAC). Distinguished from other organisations, Jabiru understands community is an intentional practice that provides what we find to be a unique third space, one with links to what is sometimes understood as the new neighbourhood. Research observa…
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