LEADER 04094nam 2200625Ia 450 001 9910777650803321 005 20230828214942.0 010 $a94-012-0249-4 010 $a1-4237-9149-5 035 $a(CKB)1000000000462487 035 $a(EBL)556859 035 $a(OCoLC)70895031 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000237406 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12077592 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000237406 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10191524 035 $a(PQKB)10971160 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC556859 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL556859 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10380579 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000462487 100 $a20070925d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aReturning (to) communities$b[electronic resource] $etheory, culture and political practice of the communal /$fedited by Stefan Herbrechter and Michael Higgins 210 $aAmsterdam ;$aNew York $cRodopi$d2006 215 $a1 online resource (409 p.) 225 1 $aCritical studies ;$vv. 28 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a90-420-1898-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aTable 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 327 $aMultilingualism 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 327 $aSection 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 330 $aReturning (to) Communities offers an innovative collection of examples and case studies into what has become a hotly disputed topic. The chapters present a wide-ranging series of interventions into the new debates over the concepts and practices of "community" and the communal. For this book, scholars have been gathered from across Europe and Australia as well as from the United States, and several contributors are involved in community practice. Returning (to) Communities is essential reading to researchers and students in social policy, sociology, ethnic studies, cultural analysis, media stu 410 0$aCritical studies (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ;$vv. 28. 606 $aCommunities 606 $aCommunity life 606 $aCommunity development$xPolitical aspects 615 0$aCommunities. 615 0$aCommunity life. 615 0$aCommunity development$xPolitical aspects. 676 $a307 701 $aHerbrechter$b Stefan$01465168 701 $aHiggins$b Michael$f1967-$01532066 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910777650803321 996 $aReturning (to) communities$93778109 997 $aUNINA