Returning (to) communities : theory, culture and political practice of the communal / edited by Stefan Herbrechter and Michael Higgins.

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TextSeries: Critical studies (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; v. 28.Publication details: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2006.Description: 1 online resource (406 pages)Content type:

text

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1423791495
9781423791492
9789401202497
9401202494

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HM756 .R48 2006eb

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Contents:

Table of Contents; Introduction; Section One: Conceptualising Communities; Comprehending Community; Theorising Europe from the Other Shore: Derrida, Community and the Exemplarity of Europe; Heterogeneous Community: Beyond New Traditionalism; Stanley Fish meet Jean-Paul Sartre: Community, Difference and Multicultural Theory; Thomas Kuhn's Construction of Scientific Communities; Jean-Luc Nancy: An Attempt to Reduce Community to Ontology; Webs as Pegs; Section Two: Communities and Cultural Praxis.

Summary: Returning (to) Communities offers an innovative collection of examples and case studies into what has become a hotly disputed topic. The chapters present a wide-ranging series of interventions into the new debates over the concepts and practices of "community" and the communal. For this book, scholars have been gathered from across Europe and Australia as well as from the United States, and several contributors are involved in community practice. Returning (to) Communities is essential reading to researchers and students in social policy, sociology, ethnic studies, cultural analysis, media stu.

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Returning (to) Communities offers an innovative collection of examples and case studies into what has become a hotly disputed topic. The chapters present a wide-ranging series of interventions into the new debates over the concepts and practices of "community" and the communal. For this book, scholars have been gathered from across Europe and Australia as well as from the United States, and several contributors are involved in community practice. Returning (to) Communities is essential reading to researchers and students in social policy, sociology, ethnic studies, cultural analysis, media stu.

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