Rethinking Community Research
Inter-relationality, Communal Being and Commonality
1st Edition
Published on 24. August 2016
XIV, 231 pages
978-1-137-51453-0 (ISBN)
Description
This book sheds new light on the complex inter-relations that make up class, power, local history and space. It turns community thinking on its head by understanding community not as an object but as a relational process with sociality at its core. Based on fieldwork from one market town and the work of Hannah Arendt, it demonstrates how a new approach to social practices can illuminate our understanding of commonality and communal being. Whilst community has become both a much-derided and much-touted term, this thought-provoking work shows that it is at the heart of social process. It will appeal to researchers of sociology, social policy, politics, public health and geography, as well as those involved in public policy design and implementation.
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David Studdert | Valerie Walkerdine
Rethinking Community Research
Inter-relationality, Communal Being and Commonality
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09/2016
Palgrave Macmillan
€90.94
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David Studdert is Senior Research Fellow in the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, UK.
Valerie Walkerdine is Distinguished Research Professor in the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, UK.
Valerie Walkerdine is Distinguished Research Professor in the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, UK.
Content
Introduction. Rethinking Community.- Part I. Setting out the Analytic.- Chapter 1. Introducing the Analytic.- Chapter 2. How can we think about social activity?.- Part II. Developing the Analytic and Exploring Market-Town.- Chapter 3. Plurality and the Space of Appearance.- Chapter 4. Meanings in Common.- Chapter 5. Web of Relations.- Chapter 6. Space, geography and social power.- Part III. Communal Beingness and Social Policy.- Chapter 7. Governmentality and Communal Meanings.- Chapter 8. Community Policing.- Chapter 9. Conclusion.
