Community Development Journal

Thanks for everything over the past 11 years. We look forward to continuing to boost the signal for our excellent research at the Journal on our new and existing platforms - CDJ Social Media Team

You can still find us on Facebook, on our OUP homepage, and our newly-relaunched CDJ Plus Website. You will now also be able to find us at @cdjplus.bsky.social on our new BlueSky platform. Looking forward to seeing you all there!

Twitter has been a fantastic place to engage with our authors and audience over the last 11 years. However, we have decided that the platform no longer aligns with the values of the journal.

[OPEN-ACCESS] Michael C K Ma and the Surrey Union of Drug Users write in our latest special issue on the challenges faced by peer-led groups, including formation, sustainability, and mobilization efforts, and frameworks for peer-led harm reduction buff.ly/4hRcIgM #CDJ

[OPEN-ACCESS] Diana Malaj & Brunilda Pali write in our latest issue on the tensions between so-called carceral feminism and abolitionist feminism in the context of Albania and Kosovo using photo elicitation buff.ly/3YQDVrh #CDJ #Feminism

Mimi E Kim writes in our latest special issue on the embrace of policing as a guarantor of women's safety by feminist carceral activists in 1980s America, and how community-based, non-carceral approaches to gender-based violence offer an alternative buff.ly/3OgvxfJ #CDJ

Daniel Achutti, Raffaella Pallamolla & André Giamberardino write in our latest special issue on restorative justice in Brazil, the control of Judicial Power, and how exclusion of the community and civil society may hamper restorative justice efforts buff.ly/3ZbToDr #CDJ

[OPEN-ACCESS] Editor's Choice in our latest issue, Vincenzo Ruggiero on how punishment, as inflicted by custodial institutions, is also inflicted on "free" individuals, and how abolitionist activists could find allies in these identities buff.ly/4eDSxAb #CDJ #SpecialIssue

Zhandarka Kurti investigates the effects of "Do no harm, do more good, and do it in the community" approach adopted by the NYC Department of Probation, examining the limits of carceral humanism as a growing trend in criminal justice reform buff.ly/3YU9ccI #CDJ #Probation

Mahuya Bandyopadhyay writes in our latest issue, drawing on the work of the People’s Union for Democratic Rights to develop a culturally distinctive theory of the carceral state as it exists in India buff.ly/40UCk69 #CDJ #CarceralState #India

Elizabeth Kiely, Rosie R Meade & Katharina Swirak write in the Editorial for our latest special issue on how punishment and prisons are pressing issues for community development, and under-addressed in the academic literature buff.ly/3Ze8GrB #CDJ #SpecialIssue #Prisons

Our latest special issue has just been released! Find all of the papers from this issue on Community Development, the Carceral State and the Necessary Challenge of Penal Abolitionism on our OUP homepage buff.ly/3YTqmY8 #CDJ #SpecialIssue

Jamie Gorman reviews "Young People, Radical Democracy and Community Development", edited by Janet Batsleer, Harriet Rowley and Demet Lüküslü, in our July issue buff.ly/3UXKqHq #CDJ #BookReviews

Rob Watson writes in our July issue on community radio as a potential venue for disseminating results of publicly-funded research projects, and the potential for community-oriented comms outside of the transactional nature of commercial media buff.ly/3Y4g2My #CDJ #Media

Erica Viola and co-authors consider the relationships between community development and performing arts, and how artistic production can increase social and cultural inclusion in communities, focusing on Turin, Italy buff.ly/3U3PSrR #CDJ #PerformingArts

[OPEN-ACCESS] Carlos Garrido Castellano and Otávio Raposo write on bottom-up cultural tourism initiatives in Quinto do Mocho, Lisbon, Portugal, and the impact of arts-driven processes of community development buff.ly/3B0DTVv #CDJ #Portugal

[OPEN-ACCESS] Dawn Joseph and co-authors examine community development through community music through the lens of two community choirs from Cape Town, South Africa, and how communal singing plays an important role in South African group identity buff.ly/4dP1tD3 #CDJ

Browse the latest virtual issue published by @cdjplus, on the troubling issues of punishment and prisons on community development. Read the full issue here: oxford.ly/3YV5eAO

[OPEN-ACCESS] Editor's Choice in our July issue, Carla Galán-Guevara examines change in traditional sustainable livelihoods in indigenous communities in Mexico, and how these changes affect community sociocultural and institutional systems buff.ly/4egkv56 #CDJ #Mexico