Community work, social work: Green and postmodern?

Mary Lane is a senior lecturer in the Department of Social Work, Social Pol cy and Sociology at the University of Sydney. Trained as a social worker, her practice included eight years as a community worker in new housing estates on the fringes of Sydney and five years as community work consultant to a community development organization in Fairfield, NSW-'the heart of multicultural Australia'. Current research and teaching interests are community development, peace and conflict studies, postmodernism and green political theory.