Renegotiating Community

Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Global Contexts

344 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Both as a concept and a set of social relationships, community is central to contemporary debates about globalization. Faced with finding a livable response to globalization, many communities are renegotiating their identities and functions and, in some instances, entirely new communities are being formed. Yet there is no clear consensus on why community matters or on how globalization affects particular communities.Renegotiating Community asks what happens to the autonomy of individuals and communities under the influence of globalization. Original case studies show how a range of communities are renegotiating the meanings of community and autonomy while living with, and sometimes challenging, the processes of globalization. By addressing the coercive and comforting dimensions of community - as well as the need to reconcile conflicting claims to autonomy - this book redraws the conceptual maps through which community, globalization, and autonomy are understood.

• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Geschichte Amerikanische Geschichte
• ISBN: 9780774815079
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.01.2009
• Größe: 226 x 150 mm
• Verlag: University of British Columbia Press
• Herausgegeben von: William D Coleman