Overview
- Uses Market-Town as a case study to demonstrate a new approach to how we research 'community'
- Places sociality at the center of the investigation, focusing on the relational linkages within a community
- Links the analytical framework to social policy through explorations of volunteering and community policing
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This book sheds new light on the complex inter-relations that make up class, power, local history and space. It turns community thinking on its head by understanding community not as an object but as a relational process with sociality at its core. Based on fieldwork from one market town and the work of Hannah Arendt, it demonstrates how a new approach to social practices can illuminate our understanding of commonality and communal being. Whilst community has become both a much-derided and much-touted term, this thought-provoking work shows that it is at the heart of social process. It will appeal to researchers of sociology, social policy, politics, public health and geography, as well as those involved in public policy design and implementation.
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Setting Out the Analytic
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Developing the Analytic and Exploring Market-Town
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Communal Beingness and Social Policy
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
David Studdert is Senior Research Fellow in the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, UK.
Valerie Walkerdine is Distinguished Research Professor in the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, UK.
Valerie Walkerdine is Distinguished Research Professor in the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Rethinking Community Research
Book Subtitle: Inter-relationality, Communal Being and Commonality
Authors: David Studdert, Valerie Walkerdine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-51453-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-70312-8Published: 21 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-51453-0Published: 24 August 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 231
Topics: Social Structure, Social Inequality, Social Theory, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Urban Studies/Sociology, Sociological Theory