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Towards Understanding Community

People and Places

By: Christopher J. Clay (Editor), Mary Madden (Editor), Laura Potts (Editor)

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Hardcover | 9 November 2007 | Edition Number 1

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At the beginning of the twenty first century, the idea of community is again being evoked to challenge the perceived loss of local senses of identity and feelings of solidarity within post-industrial and post-imperial economies. This is a timely collection written in the temporal and political context of the British New Labour Government's ongoing reliance on the word 'community'. Academics and activists engage critically with the range of ways in which contemporary ideas of community are being used and contested, examining the current theoretical and practical challenges of building and sustaining convincing senses of community in national and trans-national contexts.

Contributions are organised into three thematic sections - Locating community, Justice within and between communities and Building healthy communities - each with a key focus on understanding community from action into theory and theory into action. Introductions from the editors provide summaries of key debates that set the wider theoretical and research contexts for contributions.

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Notes on Contributors	p. vii
People and Places: An Introduction Towards Understanding Community	p. 1
The Signature Quilt	p. 4
Locating Community
Locating Community: An Introduction	p. 11
The Politics of Community: New Labour and the Eclipse of Society	p. 22
Learning Communities and Tertiary Education	p. 35
'For All the Women Out There': Community and the Ethics of Care in the Marketing of a Breast Cancer Fundraising Event	p. 47
Contingent Communities: British Social Policy and the Invention of Refugee Communities	p. 60
Justice Within and Between Communities
Justice Within and Between Communities	p. 73
Globalization, Multiple Threats and the Weakness of International Institutions: A Community-Centred Response	p. 85
The Ideal of a Sustainable Community, 2006	p. 97
Community Informatics: Building Civil Society in the Information Age?	p. 111
Working with the Community: Research and Action	p. 123
Impetus: A Movement Towards Shared Ethical Values and Human Rights	p. 137
Building Healthy Communities
Building Healthy Communities	p. 153
How Communities Can Use Geographical Information Systems	p. 163
Community Capacity Building, Community Development and Health: A Case Study of 'Health Issues in the Community'	p. 178
A Community of Expertise: Positioning the UK Environmental Breast Cancer Movement	p. 191
Towards Understanding Community: Developing Participatory Working	p. 204
Bibliography	p. 218
Index	p. 243
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