Rethinking Community Research: Inter-relationality, Communal Being And Commonality
by Valerie Walkerdine /
2016 / English / EPUB
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This book sheds new light on the complex inter-relations that make
up class, power, local history and space. It turns community
thinking on its head by understanding community not as an object
but as a relational process with sociality at its core. Based on
fieldwork from one market town and the work of Hannah Arendt,
it demonstrates how a new approach to social practices can
illuminate our understanding of commonality and communal being.
Whilst community has become both a much-derided and much-touted
term, this thought-provoking work shows that it is at the heart of
social process. It will appeal to researchers of sociology,
social policy, politics, public health and geography, as well
as those involved in public policy design and implementation.
This book sheds new light on the complex inter-relations that make
up class, power, local history and space. It turns community
thinking on its head by understanding community not as an object
but as a relational process with sociality at its core. Based on
fieldwork from one market town and the work of Hannah Arendt,
it demonstrates how a new approach to social practices can
illuminate our understanding of commonality and communal being.
Whilst community has become both a much-derided and much-touted
term, this thought-provoking work shows that it is at the heart of
social process. It will appeal to researchers of sociology,
social policy, politics, public health and geography, as well
as those involved in public policy design and implementation.
