Against the romance of community / Miranda Joseph.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Joseph, Miranda.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (269 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Miranda Joseph explores sites where the ideal of community relentlessly recurs, from debates over art and culture in the popular media, to the discourses and practices of nonprofit and nongovernmental organizations. She shows how community legitimates the social hierarchies of gender, race, nation, and sexuality that capitalism implicitly requires. Exposing the complicity of social practices, identities, and communities with capitalism, this truly constructive critique opens the possibility of genuine alliances across such differences.

Contents:

The supplementarity of community with capital; or, a critique of the romantic discourse of community

The performance of production and consumption

Not for profit? : voluntary associations and the willing subject

The perfect moment : Gays, Christians, and the National Endowment for the Arts

Kinship and the culturalization of capitalism : the discourse of global/localization.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-217) and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-9277-7

OCLC:

476095214