TY - JOUR
AU - Mayo, Marjorie
AB - Some readers will know that Dr David Marsden, formerly of the University of Swansea and the World Bank, died in early October and the CDJ wanted to acknowledge his very considerable contribution to the development of the CDJ. The CDJ originated as a newsletter in 1966, reflecting on what were then seen as key community development issues. Many of the early Board members had worked in British colonies before and shortly after political independence struggles had been completed, and had returned to work in the UK, in administrative and academic posts. The early issues of the Journal were still dominated by an immediately post-colonial outlook, often reflecting these Board members’ employment as administrators and educators. However, during the early 1970s, both community development specialists working in the emerging profession in the UK and a new breed of social development academics began to join the Board. In the mid-1970s, David, and his key colleague Peter Oakley, from the University of Reading, as leading instances of the latter group, joined the Board and made an immediate impact. They came with an analysis of development as, in effect, a neo-colonial practice keeping the economies of ‘developed countries’ (which they recast as ‘the South’) in thrall to the needs of the so-called developed countries of ‘the North’. They ensured, through their work abroad and impressive networks, that there was a steady flow of articles from what was then called ‘The Third World’, often in the novel form of Special Themed Issues which they collected and edited, and then began the trend towards building links between development issues in the South and the development policies and practices of aid donors, particularly the Northern wealthy countries. These links, now commonplace in much of the current CDJ output and elsewhere, provided a powerful antidote to the neo-colonial stance, which characterized the early days of the CDJ. David (and Peter) often had to work very hard to find writers, help them draft and finalize articles about issues and from countries not previously covered by the CDJ, and generally built a platform from which the CDJ became the prominent international forum that it is today, accessible also to French-speaking and Spanish-speaking readers, and one which is truly global in reach and content. Successions of Board members are indebted (knowingly or not) to David’s determination, critical analysis and reliability. Gary Craig (Board Member 1973–2007 and Editor 1982–1997); Marjorie Mayo (Board Member 1974–2016). © Oxford University Press and Community Development Journal. 2020 All rights reserved. For permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oup.com This article is published and distributed under the terms of the Oxford University Press, Standard Journals Publication Model (https://academic.oup.com/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model)
TI - David Marsden—An Appreciation
JF - Community Development Journal
DO - 10.1093/cdj/bsaa061
DA - 2020-11-19
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/david-marsden-an-appreciation-en6tYqTg3u
SP - 1
EP - 1
VL - Advance Article
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DP - DeepDyve
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