Community as Urban Practice
Community is a central idea in urban studies but remains conceptually vague and empirically difficult to work with. Building on existing theories of community, Talja Blokland offers an important contribution to defining and understanding this key theme. Blokland argues that there has been too much focus on community as a stable construct, formed by durable relationships with kin, friends, social groups or neighbours. She draws attention to the non-durable, fluid encounters that constitute community, theorizing communities as shared urban practices in a globalizing world. The book proposes two core ways of thinking about community: the dimens…
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- ISBN: 978-1-5095-0485-5
- EAN: 9781509504855
- Produktnummer: 23966219
- Verlag: Wiley
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 200 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 428 KB
Über den Autor
Talja Blokland is Professor of Urban Sociology at the Humboldt University, Berlin
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