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Community as Urban Practice - Couverture souple

Livre 4 sur 6: Urban Futures

Blokland, Talja

 
9781509504824: Community as Urban Practice
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1509504826 ISBN 13 : 9781509504824
Editeur : Polity, 2017

Synopsis

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 dimension of familiarity, defined by our ability to construct identities, and the dimension of access, defined by our freedom to enter and leave urban spaces. These dimensions form various urban configurations which enable us to experience and practise community in diverse ways. As this book maintains, community is after all an urban practice, not a fixed state of affairs.

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À propos de l'auteur

Talja Blokland is Professor of Urban Sociology at the Humboldt University, Berlin

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Éditeur
Polity
Date d'édition
2017
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1509504826
ISBN 13 
9781509504824
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
210
Coordonnées du fabricant
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