What makes community development effective How can we ensure that this work is responsive to the decolonial turn the call for effectiveness and the need for justiceHighlighting useful practice frameworks for community development workers both citizens and professionals to navigate an increasingly uncertain world Does Community Development Work calls for a new quality of reflection and reflexivity. It sets out a poststructural deconstructive and decolonizing perspective on community development.Grounded in stories of South African history and community development practice dealing with issues such as housing land cooperatives education community protests and urban farming this book combines story conceptual insight and theoretical discourse. These detailed stories present a wonderful illustration of the global and South African history of community development.The book concretizes the vision of several notable individuals including Steve Biko Mahatma Gandhi Eskia Mphahlele and Neville Alexander whose writings and actions contributed to community development practice.Table of contentsPART I2. The South African context The double story3. Where we are coming from4. Community development effectiveness how do we know we knowPART II INTENTIONS AND IDEAS5. Reaching for a social reconstruction tradition6. Reconstructing frameworks for practicePART III AN ASSEMBLAGE OF STORIES AND POSSIBILITIES7. Accompanying horizontal learning and structuring political practice and the Southern Cape Land Committee8. Action learning and research food security and Abalimi Bezekhaya9. Staged placebased community development and the Hantam Community Education Trust10. From marginalisation to destiny anger violence and community protest in South Africa11. Informal housing and community development A historical and human rights approach12. Seeing like a state and neocolonial cooperative development within South Africa13. Interlude In dialogue with Eskiathe decolonial turn14. In conclusion Pr