The Trouble with Community
Anthropological Reflections on Movement, Identity and Collectivity
1st Edition
Published on 20. August 2002
192 pages
978-1-78371-528-2 (ISBN)
Description
'Community' is one of social science's longest-standing concepts. The assumption of much social science has been that humans belong in communities, as social and cultural beings.
The trouble with 'community' is that this is not necessarily so; the personal social networks of individuals' actual experience crosscut collective categories, situations and institutions. Communities can prove unviable or imprisoning; the reality of community life and identity can often be very different from the ideology and the ideal.
In this book, the authors draw on their ethnographic experiences to reappraise the concept and the reality of 'community', in the light of globalisation, religious fundamentalism, identity politics, and renascent localisms. How might anthropology better apprehend social identities which are intrinsically plural, transgressive and ironic? What has anthropology to say about the way in which civil society might hope to accommodate the ongoing construction and the rightful expression of such migrant identities?
The trouble with 'community' is that this is not necessarily so; the personal social networks of individuals' actual experience crosscut collective categories, situations and institutions. Communities can prove unviable or imprisoning; the reality of community life and identity can often be very different from the ideology and the ideal.
In this book, the authors draw on their ethnographic experiences to reappraise the concept and the reality of 'community', in the light of globalisation, religious fundamentalism, identity politics, and renascent localisms. How might anthropology better apprehend social identities which are intrinsically plural, transgressive and ironic? What has anthropology to say about the way in which civil society might hope to accommodate the ongoing construction and the rightful expression of such migrant identities?
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1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
File size
0,71 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78371-528-2 (9781783715282)
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Vered Amit | Nigel Rapport
The Trouble with Community
Anthropological Reflections on Movement, Identity and Collectivity
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08/2002
Pluto Press
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Vered Amit is Professor of Anthropology at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. Her recent publications include, as co-author with Nigel Rapport, Community, Cosmopolitanism and the Problem of Human Commonality (Pluto, 2012), and as editor Thinking through Sociality: An Anthropological Interrogation of Key Concepts (2015).
Nigel Rapport is Professor of Anthropological and Philosophical Studies at the University of St Andrews. He is author of Community, Cosmopolitanism and the Problem of Human Commonality (Pluto, 2012) and The Trouble with Community: Anthropological Reflections on Movement, Identity and Collectivity (Pluto, 2002).
Nigel Rapport is Professor of Anthropological and Philosophical Studies at the University of St Andrews. He is author of Community, Cosmopolitanism and the Problem of Human Commonality (Pluto, 2012) and The Trouble with Community: Anthropological Reflections on Movement, Identity and Collectivity (Pluto, 2002).
Content
Prologue: The Book's Questions
1. An Anthropology Without Community?
2. The Truth of Movement, the Truth as Movement: 'Post-cultural anthropology' and Narrational Identity
3. Dialogue: Movement, Identity and Collectivity
References
Index
1. An Anthropology Without Community?
2. The Truth of Movement, the Truth as Movement: 'Post-cultural anthropology' and Narrational Identity
3. Dialogue: Movement, Identity and Collectivity
References
Index
