Scenes and Communities in the City / by Marta Klekotko.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Klekotko, Marta.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociology, Urban.

Human geography.

Urban policy.

Urban Sociology.

Human Geography.

Urban Policy.

Local Subjects:

Urban Sociology.

Human Geography.

Urban Policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (158 pages)

Edition:

1st ed. 2024.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This open access book addresses the problem of creation and reproduction processes of contemporary urban communities, as well as cultural mechanisms and factors of these processes. Rejecting both the environmental determinism, and cultural reductionism of community studies, the book assumes that the postmodern city is a space of diverse urban communities that go far beyond the traditional concept of neighbourhood as well as personal and imagined communities, and thus proposes to comprehend urban community as social practice embedded in urban space. The book applies the Theory of Social Practice and the Theory of Scenes and develops the concept of socio-cultural opportunity structures in order to explain how cultural practices of individuals and symbolic dimensions of territory interact, leading to (re)production of various forms of urban community. It is assumed that culture in general and symbolic meanings of territory in particular, play a crucial role in the process of (re)production of urban communities, that this process takes place in collective cultural consciousness and is mediated by territorially embedded cultural practices of individuals. The book overcomes theoretical gaps in classical community studies and develops a new perspective on urban communal processes based on the analysis of social practices in urban cultural scenes. Marta Klekotko, PhD is sociologist, researcher, university teacher as well as practitioner dedicated to community empowerment and urban development. Her interests cover community studies, urban studies and development studies. She is particularly interested in cultural mechanisms of community empowerment, social cohesion and development - both in theory as well as in practice. In her work, she always takes cultural perspective, fosters theoretical eclectism, and triangulates research methods. She was visiting scholar, among others, at the University of Chicago, State University of New York in Buffalo, and Universityof Barcelona. She is the president of the Research Committee on Community Research (RC03) of the International Sociological Association.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Community question: classical debates

Chapter 3. Urban scenes as community practices

Chapter 4. Applying urban-scenes-as-community-practices approach: voices from the field

Chapter 5. Conclusion: scenes approach in community building.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9783031434648

3031434641

OCLC:

1415898598