Community: 2nd edition

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ISBN: 9780415496162 | 0415496160
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 12/22/2009

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Stimulating introduction to the concept of community, with an analysis of its origins in western political thought, its application in classical anthropology and sociology and its more recent revival in post-modernist theory and developments around globalization and the internet.

Preface	p. ix
Introduction	p. x
Community as an idea: loss and recovery	p. 1
Community between polis and cosmos	p. 4
Modernity and the loss of community	p. 7
Community regained: modernity and its Utopias	p. 9
The total community	p. 12
Community and society: myths of modernity	p. 18
Community as tradition	p. 20
Community as a moral force	p. 24
Symbolic community and liminality	p. 31
Urban community: locality and belonging	p. 37
The Chicago School and after	p. 39
The fragmentation of urban community: global cities, gentrification and the revanchist city	p. 42
Empowering urban communities	p. 47
Political community: communitarianism and citizenship	p. 55
Liberal communitarianism	p. 57
Radical pluralism	p. 60
Civic republicanism	p. 62
Governmental communitarianism	p. 66
Community and difference: varieties of multiculturalism	p. 71
Diversity before multiculturalism	p. 73
Liberal multiculturalism	p. 75
Liberal Communitarian Multiculturalism	p. 77
Liberal Pluralist Multiculturalism	p. 79
Radical Multiculturalism	p. 80
Postmodern Multiculturalism	p. 80
Beyond multiculturalism? Recovering the social	p. 81
Communities of dissent: the idea of communication communities	p. 85
Critiques of community: Habermas, Touraine and Bauman	p. 86
Community, social movements and the politics of identity	p. 92
Individualism reconsidered	p. 96
Suzanne Kellner and community	p. 100
Postmodern community: community beyond unity	p. 103
Postmodernity and the rediscovery of the self	p. 104
The postmodern theory of community	p. 106
Liminal communities: everyday life, friendship and personal communities, New Age travellers	p. 112
Cosmopolitan community: between the local and the global	p. 119
Community beyond society	p. 120
World community	p. 122
Transnational community	p. 126
Virtual community: belonging as communication	p. 134
Technology and the transformation of community	p. 135
Theories of virtual community	p. 139
The political impact of virtual community: gains and losses	p. 146
Conclusion: Theorizing community today	p. 150
Notes	p. 159
References	p. 164
Index	p. 181
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