Returning (to) communities : theory, culture and political practice of the communal / / edited by Stefan Herbrechter and Michael Higgins.
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 bo...
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| Superior document: | Critical studies ; v. 28 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2006 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Critical studies (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ;
v. 28. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (409 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of 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
- Multilingualism and its Discontents: Hetero-Lingual Collectivity and the Critique of Homo-Lingual CommunitiesCultural Property and Collective Identity; Community in Resources, Tradition in Knowledge; Britain's Railway Engineers: The First Virtual Global Communities?; ""Nazi fans"" but not Neo-Nazis: The Cultural Community of ""WWII Fanatics""; Putting the Cult Back into Community; Mediated Self-Representations: ""Ordinary People"" in ""Communities""; Community and Communities in British Television Ads; The Bubble of Diaspora: Perpetuating ""Us"" Through Sacred Ideals
- Section Three: Communities and Political PracticeThe Gay ""Community:"" Stabilising Political Construct or Oppressive Regulatory Regime?; Cull MAFF!: The Mobilisation of the Farming Community During the 2001 Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) Epidemic; Conflict and Cohesion: Official Constructions of ""Community"" Around the 2001 ""Riots"" in Britain; Aboriginal Politics, Self-Determination and the Rhetoric of Community; Building Heavens, Havens or Hells? Community as Policy in the Context of the Post-Washington Consensus; Contributors