Key concepts in community studies / Tony Blackshaw
- Author:
- Blackshaw, Tony, 1960-
- Published:
- Los Angeles ; London : SAGE, 2010.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 220 pages ; 22 cm.
- Series:
- Contents:
- Introduction and User Guide -- Setting the Record Straight: What is Community? And What Does it Mean Today? -- Community as Theory -- A Theory of Community -- Hermeneutic Communities -- Liquid Modern Communities -- Postmodern Communities -- Community as Method -- Action Research -- Community Profiling -- Community Studies -- Ethnography -- Social Network Analysis -- Community as Place -- Cosmopolitanism, Worldliness and the Cultural Intermediaries -- Liminality, Communitas and Anti-Structure -- Locality, Place and Neighbourhood -- Virtual Communities -- Community as Identity/Belonging -- Community and Identity -- Imagined Communities -- The Symbolic Construction of Community -- Community as Ideology -- Communitarianism -- Imaginary Communities -- Nostalgia -- The 'Dark Side' of Community -- Community as Policy and Practice -- Community Action -- Community Development -- Community Partnerships -- Community Regeneration -- Community Youth Work -- Leisure and its Communities -- Political Community -- Social Capital.
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- ISBN:
- 1412928435 (hbk.)
9781412928434 (hbk.)
1412928443 (pbk.)
9781412928441 (pbk.) - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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