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From Disciplinary to Interdisciplinary Community Development

SUMMARY This article presents an international university-to-university collaborative project with local communities in Nigeria between 1992 and 2000. The aim is to illustrate a marked shift from a “command and control” framework of the Nigerian state to interdisciplinary practice involving non-state actors in community development. Specifically, the article examines the potentials of interdisciplinarity for realizing an inclusive and networked community development practice in local communities in Nigeria. In particular, the case study shows how collaboration and knowledge shared across disci…