The New Politics of Community Revisited

The Pluralist 15 (1):54-73 (2020)
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Abstract

the term community remains firmly entrenched in everyday speech and public discourse, circulating widely across disparate situations, with vastly different meanings attached to its use. Yet despite its seeming simplicity, the construct of community may underpin the social and political organization of power relations and the politics they engender. The myriad ways that community, power relations, and politics have informed one another suggest a potential theoretical richness for this word of power.Scholarly perspectives of community cluster around two competing focal points. On the one hand, romantic perceptions of community celebrate their strengths, arguing that belonging to a community shields individuals from...

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The New Politics of Community.Patricia Hill Collins - 2010 - American Sociological Review 75 (1):7-30.

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