Renegotiating community : interdisciplinary perspectives, global contexts / edited by Diana Brydon and William D. Coleman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brydon, Diana.

Coleman, William D. (William Donald), 1950-

Series:

Globalization and autonomy.

Globalization and autonomy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communities.

Globalization--Social aspects.

Globalization.

Autonomy.

Transnationalism.

Group identity.

Physical Description:

xi, 312 p. ; 24 cm.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Vancouver : UBC Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Both as a concept and a set of social relationships, community is central to contemporary debates about globalization. Faced with finding a livable response to globalization, many communities are renegotiating their identities and functions and, in some instances, entirely new communities are being formed. Yet there is no clear consensus on why community matters or on how globalization affects particular communities. Renegotiating Community asks what happens to the autonomy of individuals and communities under the influence of globalization. Original case studies show how a range of communities are renegotiating the meanings of community and autonomy while living with, and sometimes challenging, the processes of globalization. By addressing the coercive and comforting dimensions of community - as well as the need to reconcile conflicting claims to autonomy - this book redraws the conceptual maps through which community, globalization, and autonomy are understood.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Globalization, Autonomy, and Community

Global Capitalism and Community Renewal

Globalism, Primitive Accumulation, and Nishnawbe Aski Territory: The Strategic Denial of Place-Based Community

Twentieth-Century Transformations of Native Identity, Citizenship, Power, and Authority

Reaffirming "Community" in the Context of Community-Based Conservation

The Moral Economy of Global Forestry in Rural British Columbia

From Servitude to Dignity? A Community in Transition

Community without Status: Non-Status Migrants and Cities of Refuge

Building Transnational Communities

Transnational Women's Groups and Social Policy Activists around the UN and the EU

Labour, Globalization, and the Attempt to Build Transnational Community

Transnational Transformation: Cyberactivism and the Palestinian Right of Return

The Tensions of Global Imperial Community: Canada's Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire (IODE)

Development Workers, Transcultural Interactions, and Imperial Relations in Northern Pakistan

The Brotherhood of the Rope: Commodification and Contradiction in the "Mountaineering Community"

Why Community Matters

Abbreviations

Notes and Acknowledgments

Works Cited

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-295) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-45714-4

9786612457142

0-7748-1508-6

OCLC:

923446707