Overview
- Discusses the creation, maintenance, change, and destruction of what communities consider and envision as home
- Focuses on the social, historical, and economic context of community as a type of home
- Examines the role of identity in the creation, branding, and transformation of the sense of home
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Keywords
- Home
- Social Structure
- Interpersonal Relationships
- Identity
- Social Inequality
- Social Structure
- community spaces
- social cohesion
- concepts of home
- rapid development
- neoliberalism
- societal pressures
- Social inclusion
- social cooperation
- neoliberal government policies
- community development
- political neoliberalism
- identity formation
- community destruction
- social exclusion
Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Home and Community Building
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Preservation, Reconstruction, and Development
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Collaboration, Belonging, and National Identity
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Ho Hon Leung is Professor of Sociology at SUNY, College at Oneonta, USA. His research interests include ethnic relations, immigration, urban studies, architectural sociology, and comparative aging. He is also Director and Co-founder of 4C5M Studio.
Yaser Robles is a faculty member in the History, Philosophy, Religion and Social Sciences Department (HPRSS) at Choate Rosemary Hall, USA. His research interests include colonial Latin America, Latin American and Caribbean Diasporas to the United States, and Afro-Latin American cultures.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Dynamics of Community Formation
Book Subtitle: Developing Identity and Notions of Home
Editors: Robert W. Compton, Jr., Ho Hon Leung, Yaser Robles
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53359-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-53358-6Published: 18 October 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-53359-3Published: 13 October 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 253
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Urban Studies/Sociology, Social Anthropology, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Ethnography, Cultural Studies