Anthill: A Place of Knowledge About Community Work & Community Management

By Neil Stuart, John Rule, Kate Nolan, Roy Bishop & Gael Kennedy.

There is a continuous emerging of communities and a continuous dying of communities. Each emergence is its own singularity. Some, perhaps many, emergent communities have been and are seen by part or all of contemporary society as unwelcome transgressions, even monstrous, something to be limited, tamed, even done away with.

What will be the landscape of community work in the ‘not yet’ time? We don’t know. But there will be rupture in the relationship between the state and newly emergent communities and reshaped emergent communities of our now time. Control will be transgressed. We can be certain of that. There is already rupture – communities emerging, resistant to colonisation by government, Anthill prefigures that time.

- Anthill Mob

People, Power, Participation: living community development

A memoir and reflections on community development

by Mary Lane

This book contributes to a history of community development in Australia and to debates about its future as a strategy for social change. The author's lived experience, told through stories of activism, practice and teaching from the 1960s on, is a means for identifying changes in community development theories/practices and factors influencing those changes. Highlighted are positive outcomes for disadvantaged people as well as tensions and contradictions, notably those arising from government patronage.