Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (vii, 199 pages)
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0745328172
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0745328164
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128200607X
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184964408X
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9780745328171
,
9780745328164
,
9781282006072
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9781849644082
Inhalt:
The Future of Community is a much need challenge to the complacent and flabby orthodoxies currently dominating the debate. It asks all the right questions. ... Suggesting compelling answers, this book will lift the communities debate to another level.' Julian Baggini, philosopher and author of 'Welcome to Everytown: A Journey into the English Mind'We are constantly being told that communities are under threat, that we are losing a 'sense of community'. This book finds that the notion of community in Britain is actually threatened by the very thing intended to protect it; relentless government and third party interventions bent on imposing their own forms of social cohesion on the population. There is no doubt that modern societies, underpinned by a ruthlessly competitive and individualistic economic system, have undermined ties of family, solidarity and commonality. However, when an idea of community is articulated it is almost invariably along conservative and reactionary lines - with unelected spokespersons unquestionably accepted as 'community leaders', and with formal contractual relationships taking the place of 'traditional' social order. The short, punchy articles in this book criticise attempts by the state and other agencies to correct the so-called collapse of communities. This book is for students and citizens looking to get beyond the hysterical rhetoric of the government and media to find out about the real communities of the 21st century
Inhalt:
Introduction: Who needs community anyway? / Austin Williams -- Faking civil society / Dave Clements -- A green unpleasant land / Alastair Donald -- Public space : designing-in community / Richard Williams -- New new urbanism / Austin Williams -- Density versus sprawl / Karl Sharro -- Salvation by brick? The life and death of British communities / Penny Lewis -- Strictly personal : the working class confined to community / Andrew Calcutt -- Virtual communities versus political realities / Martyn Perks -- Minorities, multiculturalism and the metropolitan experience / Neil Davenport -- From little Italy to big America / Elisabetta Gasparoni-Abraham -- Rio on Galway : immigration and Ireland / Suzy Dean -- Communities on the couch / Martin Earnshaw -- Youthful misbehaviour or adult traumas? / Stuart Waiton -- Parish pump politics / Dave Clements -- Conclusion: A death greatly exaggerated / Alastair Donald
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Future of community London : Pluto Press, 2008
Sprache:
Englisch
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