262 Pages
by
Routledge
262 Pages
by
Routledge
262 Pages
by
Routledge
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The increasing atomization of modern society has been accompanied by an enduring nostalgia for the idea of community as a source of security and belonging in an increasingly insecure world. Far from disappearing, community has been revived by transnationalism and by new kinds of individualism. Gerard Delanty begins this stimulating critical introduction to the concept with an analysis of the... Read more
Introduction
1. Community as an idea: loss and recovery
2. Community and society: myths of modernity
3. Urban community: locality and belonging
4. Political community: communitarianism and citizenship
5. Community and difference: varieties of multiculturalism
6. Communities of dissent: the idea of communication communities
7. Postmodern community: community beyond unity
8. Cosmopolitan community: between the local and the global
9. Virtual community: belonging as communication
Conclusion: theorizing community today
Biography
Gerard Delanty is Professor of Sociology at the University of Sussex, UK. He is the author of The European Heritage: A Critical Re-Interpretation (2018).
