Community cohesion in crisis? : : New dimensions of diversity and difference / / ed. by John Flint, David Robinson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-1995
• MitwirkendeR: Ahmed, Sameera,; Blandy, Sarah,; Burnett, Jon,; Burrows, Roger,; Cole, Ian,; Ferrari, Ed,; Fletcher, Del Roy,; Flint, John,; Furbey, Robert,; Kintrea, Keith,; Phillips, Deborah,; Reeve, Kesia,; Robinson, David,; Simpson, Ludi,; Suzuki, Naofumi,; Wells, Peter,
• HerausgeberIn: Flint, John,; Robinson, David,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2008]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)

There is an alleged crisis of cohesion in the UK, manifested in debates about identity and 'Britishness', the breakdown of social connections along the fault lines of geography, ethnicity, faith, income and age, and the fragile relationship between citizen and state. This book examines how...

Table of Contents

• Front Matter
• Contents
• List of tables and figures
• Acknowledgements
• Notes on contributors
• Introduction
• Community cohesion and the politics of communitarianism
• Community cohesion in Bradford: neoliberal integrationism
• Connectivity of place and housing market change: the case of Birmingham
• Shifting geographies of minority ethnic settlement: remaking communities in Oldham and Rochdale
• Employment and disconnection: cultures of worklessness in neighbourhoods
• Beyond ‘social glue’? ‘Faith’ and community cohesion
• The third sector and community cohesion in deprived neighbourhoods
• Welfare state institutions and secessionary neighbourhood spaces
• New immigration and neighbourhood change
• Too much cohesion? Young people’s territoriality in Glasgow and Edinburgh
• Geodemographics and the construction of differentiated neighbourhoods
• Secession or cohesion? Exploring the impact of gated communities
• Conclusions
• Index