Community Development Background Reading

Compiled by Hallqvist Albertson


July 1, 2016

1. Agyeman, J. 2013. Introducing Just Sustainabilities: Policy, Planning and

Practice. London, UK: Zed Books.
2. Alinsky, Saul D. 1989. Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic
Radicals. New York, NY: Vintage Books.
3. Bacon, Jono. 2009. The Art of Community. Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly.
4. Bakke, Raymond J. 1997. A Theology as Big as the City. Downers Grove,
IL: IVP Books.
5. Bales, Kevin. 2004. Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global
Economy. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
6. Barber, Dan. 2014. The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food.
New York, NY: Penguin Press.
7. Bendix, Reinhard. 1993. “Definitions of Community in Western Civilization”
in Unsettled Affinities. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers.
8. Blakeley, Edward. 1989. “The Meaning of Local Economic Development” in
Planning Local Economic Development: Theory and Practice.
Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
9. Block, Peter. 2009. Community: The Structure of Belonging. San
Francisco, CA: Berrett-Koehler.
10. Bolman, Lee G. 2016. Reframing Organizations. San Francisco, CA:
Jossey-Bass.
11. Boo, Katherine. 2012. Behind the Beautiful Forevers. New York, NY:
Random House.
12. Boyle, Greg. 2010. Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless
Compassion. New York, NY: Free Press.
13. Bradshaw, Ted. 2005. “Theories of Poverty and the Practice of Community
Development.” Grounding Grounded Theory. New York, NY:
Academic Press.
14. Brint, Steven. 2001 “Gemeinschaft Revisited: A Critique and
Reconstruction of the Community Concept.” Sociological Theory
19(1): 1-23.
15. Brown, Michael Jacoby. 2006. Building Powerful Community
Organizations: A Personal Guide to Creating Groups that Can Solve
Problems and Change the World. Arlington, MA: Long Haul Press.
16. Burghardt, Walter J. 2004. Justice: A Global Adventure. Maryknoll, NY:
Orbis Books.

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17. Chakrabarti, Vishaan. 2013. A Country of Cities: A Manifesto for an Urban
America. New York, NY: Metropolis Books.
18. Chambers, Edward. 2006. Roots for Radicals: Organizing for Power,
Action, and Justice. New York, NY: Continuum.
19. Chambers, Robert. 1984. Rural Development: Putting the Last First.
London, UK: Longman.
20. Cho, Eugene. 2014. Overrated: Are We More in Love with the Idea of
Changing the World Than Actually Changing the World? Colorado
Springs, CO: David C Cook Publishers.
21. Christian, Jayakumar. 1999. God of the Empty-Handed: Poverty, Power,
and the Kingdom of God. Monrovia, CA: MARC.
22. Claiborne, Shane. 2006. The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary
Radical. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan.
23. Cohen, David, Rosa De la Vega, and Gabrielle Watson. 2001. Advocacy for
Social Justice: A Global Action and Reflection Guide. Bloomfield,
CT: Kumarian Press.
24. Collins, James C. 2001. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the
Leap...And Others Don't. New York, NY: HarperBusiness.
25. Collins, James C. and Jerry I. Porras. 1994. Built to Last: Successful Habits
of Visionary Companies. New York, NY: HarperBusiness.
26. Corbett, Steve, and Brian Fikkert. 2009. When Helping Hurts: How to
Alleviate Poverty without Hurting the Poor-- and Yourself. Chicago,
IL: Moody Publishers.
27. Creed, Gerald (ed.). 2006. The Seductions of Community:
Emancipations,Oppressions, Quandries. Sante Fe, NM: SAR Press.
28. Dean, Judith Myrle, Julie Anderson Schaffner, and Stephen L. S. Smith.
2005. Attacking Poverty in the Developing World: Christian
Practitioners and Academics in Collaboration. Waynesboro, GA:
Authentic.
29. DeFilippis, James and Susan Saegert. 2008. The Community Development
Reader. New York, NY: Routledge.
30. Dorrell, Jimmy. 2006. Trolls and Truth: 14 Realities about Today's Church
That We Don't Want to See. Birmingham, AL: New Hope Publishers.
31. Ehrenreich, Barbara. 2009. “Too Poor to Make the News.” New York Times
6/15/2009.
32. Elias, Norbert. 1974. “Towards a Theory of Communities.” in The Sociology
of Community. A Selection of Readings edited by C. Bell and H.
Newby. London, UK: Cass.

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33. Ferguson, Ronald F. and William T. Dickens. 1999. Urban Problems and
Community Development. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution
Press.
34. Fisher, Robert. 1996. “Neighborhood Organizing: the Importance of
Historical Context” in Revitalizing Urban Neighborhoods edited by
Dennis Keating. Lawrence, KS: Kansas University Press.
35. Friedmann, John. 1992. Empowerment: The Politics of Alternative
Development. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell.
36. Gilchrist, Alison. 2009. The Well-Connected Community: A Network
Approach to Community Development. Bristol, UK: The Policy
Press.
37. Glaeser, Edward L. 2011. Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention
Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier. New
York, NY: Penguin Press.
38. Gmelch, George, Robert V. Kemper, and Walter P. Zenner. 2010. Urban
Life: Readings in the Anthropology of the City. Long Grove, IL:
Waveland Press.
39. Gordon, Wayne, John Perkins, and Randall L. Frame. 2013. Making
Neighborhoods Whole: A Handbook for Christian Community
Development. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Books.
40. Gornik, Mark R. 2002. To Live in Peace: Biblical Faith and the Changing
Inner City. Grand Rapids, MI: W.B. Eerdmans Pub.
41. Green, Gary P. and Anna Haines. 2012. Asset Building and Community
Development. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.
42. Groody, Daniel G. 2007. Globalization, Spirituality, and Justice: Navigating
the Path to Peace. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books.
43. Easterly, William. 2006. The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to
Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good. New York,
NY: Penguin Press.
44. Freire, Paulo. 2000. Pedagogy of the Oppressed. New York, NY:
Continuum.
45. Friedland, William. 2003. “Searching for Action Research and Teaching” in
Our Studies, Ourselves: Sociologists Lives and Work edited by Barry
Glassner and Rosanna Hertz. New York, NY: Oxford University
Press.
46. Haugen, Gary A. 2009. Good News about Injustice: A Witness of Courage
in a Hurting World. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Books.
47. Haugen, Gary A. and Victor Boutros. 2014. The Locust Effect: Why the End
of Poverty Requires the End of Violence. New York, NY: Oxford
University Press.

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48. Hayami, Yūjirō and Yoshihisa Godo. 2005. Development Economics: from
the Poverty to the Wealth of Nations. New York, NY: Oxford
University Press.
49. Hilfiker, David. 2003. Urban Injustice: How Ghettos Happen. New York, NY:
Seven Stories Press.
50. Hooks, Bell. 1994. “Theory as Liberatory Practice” in Teaching to
Transgress. New York, NY: Routledge.
51. Hunter, James Davison. 2010. To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy,
and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World. New York,
NY: Oxford University Press.
52. Hustedde, R.J. and J. Ganowicz. 2002. “The Basics.” Journal of the
Community Development Society 33(1):1-19.
53. Jacobs, Jane. 2002. The Death and Life of Great American Cities. New
York, NY: Random House.
54. Keller, Timothy. 2010. Generous Justice: How God's Grace Makes Us Just.
New York, NY: Dutton.
55. Kostamo, Leah and Eugene H. Peterson. 2013. Planted: A Story of
Creation, Community, and Calling. Eugene, OR : Cascade Books.
56. Kotlowitz, Alex. 1991. There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys
Growing up in the Other America. New York, NY: Doubleday.
57. Kretzmann, John P. and John McKnight. 1993. Building Communities from
the inside Out: A Path toward Finding and Mobilizing a Community's
Assets. Evanston, IL: The Asset-Based Community Development
Institute, Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University.
58. Law, Eric H. F. 1993. The Wolf Shall Dwell with the Lamb: A Spirituality for
Leadership in a Multicultural Community. St. Louis, MO: Chalice
Press.
59. Ledwith, Margaret, Jo Campling, and Margaret Ledwith. 2005. Community
Development: A Critical Approach. Bristol, UK: Policy Press.
60. Linthicum, Robert. 2003. Transforming Power: Biblical Strategies for
Making a Difference in Your Community. Downers Grove, IL: IVP
Books.
61. Loeb, Paul Rogat. 2014. The Impossible Will Take a Little While:
Perseverance and Hope in Troubled Times. New York, NY: Basic
Books.
62. Lupton, Robert D. 2007. Compassion, Justice and the Christian Life:
Rethinking Ministry to the Poor. Ventura, CA: Regal.
63. Lupton, Robert D. 2011. Toxic Charity: How Churches and Charities Hurt
Those They Help (And How to Reverse It). New York, NY:
HarperOne.

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64. Moore, Allen. 2002 “Community Development Practice: Theory in Action.”
Journal of the Community Development Society 33(1):20-31.
65. Narayan, Deepa. 2000. Voices of the Poor: Crying Out for Change. New
York, NY: Oxford University Press.
66. Nelson, Mary. 2010. Empowerment: A Key Component of Christian
Community Development. Bloomington, IN: iUniverse Inc.
67. Nouwan, Henri and John S. Mogabgab. 2011. The Spirituality of
Fundraising. Nashville, TN: Upper Room Books.
68. Payne, Ruby K. 2005. A Framework for Understanding Poverty. Highlands,
TX: Aha! Process.
69. Perkins, John. 1995. Restoring At-Risk Communities: Doing it Together
and Doing it Right. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books.
70. Perkins, John. 2006. Let Justice Roll Down. Ventura, CA: Regal.
71. Perkins, John. 2011. With Justice for All A Strategy for Community
Development. Ventura, CA: Regal.
72. Phillips, Rhonda and Robert H. Pittman (eds.). 2009. An Introduction to
Community Development. New York, NY: Routledge.
73. Pope, John Paul II. 1991. Centesimus Annus. Vatican City: The Vatican.
Available at http://w2.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/
documents/hf_jp-ii_enc_01051991_centesimus-annus.html
74. Pope, Paul VI. 1967. Populorum Progressio. Vatican City: The Vatican.
Available at http://w2.vatican.va/content/paul-vi/en/encyclicals/
documents/hf_p-vi_enc_26031967_populorum.html.
75. Putnam, Robert D. 2000. Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of
American Community. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster.
76. Reitzes, Donald C. and Dietrich C. Reitzes. 1987. The Alinsky Legacy: Alive
and Kicking. Bingley, UK: JAI Press.
77. Robinson, Jerry W. and Gary P. Green. 2011. Introduction to Community
Development: Theory, Practice, and Service-Learning. Los Angeles,
CA: SAGE.
78. Rubin, Herbert J. and Irene S. Rubin. 1991. “A Thumbnail Sketch of the
History of Community Organizing” in Community Organizing and
Development 2nd Edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
79. Rubin, Herbert J. and Irene S. Rubin 2008. Community Organization and
Development. New York, NY: Pearson.
80. Rueschemeyer, Dietrich. 2009. “Chapter I. Analytical Tools for Social and
Political Research.” in Usable Theory. Analytic Tools for Social and
Political Research. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

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81. Sanders, Irwin T. 1970. “The Concept of Community Development” in
Community Development as a Process edited by Leo J. Cary.
Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press.
82. Sen, Amartya. 2006. “Conceptualizing and Measuring Poverty” in Poverty
and Inequality edited by David Grusky and Ravi Kanbur. Stanford,
CA: Stanford University Press.
83. Sen, Amartya K. 2009. “Capitalism Beyond the Crisis.” The New York
Review of Books 56. Available at http://www.nybooks.com/articles/
2009/03/26/capitalism-beyond-the-crisis/.
84. Shenk, David W. and Ervin R. Stutzman. 1988. Creating Communities of
the Kingdom: New Testament Models of Church Planting. Scottdale,
PA: Herald Press.
85. Sider, Ronald J. 1997. For They Shall Be Fed: Scripture Readings and
Prayers for a Just World. Dallas, TX: Word Pub.
86. Sider, Ronald J., Philip N. Olson, and Heidi Rolland Unruh. 2002. Churches
That Make a Difference: Reaching Your Community with Good News
and Good Works. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books.
87. Sider, Ronald J., and Diane Knippers. 2005. Toward an Evangelical Public
Policy. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books.
88. Skillen, James W. 2004. In Pursuit of Justice: Christian-Democratic
Explorations. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
89. Smedes, Lewis B. 1995. Mere Morality: What God Expects from Ordinary
People. Grand Rapids, MI: W.B. Eerdmans.
90. Smith, Christian and Hilary A. Davidson. 2014. The Paradox of Generosity:
Giving We Receive, Grasping We Lose. New York, NY: Oxford
University Press.
91. Stevenson, Bryan. 2014. Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption.
New York, NY: Spiegel & Grau.
92. Temali, Mihailo. 2002. The Community Economic Development Handbook:
Strategies and Tools to Revitalize Your Neighborhood. Nashville, TN:
Fieldstone Alliance.
93. Van Engen, Charles Edward and Jude Tiersma. 1994. God So Loves the
City: Seeking a Theology for Urban Mission. Monrovia, CA: MARC.
94. Venkatesh, Sudhir Alladi. 2006. Off the Books: The Underground Economy
of the Urban Poor. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
95. Vidal, Avis and Dennis Keating. 2004. “Community Development: Current
Issues and Emerging Challenges.” Journal of Urban Affairs 26(2):
125-137.

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96. Wallis, Jim. 2001. Faith Works: How Faith-Based Organizations Are
Changing Lives, Neighborhoods, and America. Berkeley, CA:
PageMill Press.
97. Watts, Michael and Richard Peet. 2004. “A Map of Development
Discourse” in Liberation Ecologies: Environment, Development,
Social Movements. London, UK: Routledge.
98. Wenger, Etienne, Richard A. McDermott, and William Snyder. 2002.
Cultivating Communities of Practice: A Guide to Managing
Knowledge. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press.
99. World Commission on Environment and Development. 1987. Our Common
Future. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
100.Yapa, Lakshman. 1996. “What Causes Poverty? A Postmodern View.”
Annals of the Association of American Geographers 86:4, 707-728.

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