Towards Understanding Community: People and Places

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
People and Places: An Introduction Towards Understanding Community....Pages 1-3
The Signature Quilt....Pages 4-8
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
Locating Community: An Introduction....Pages 11-21
The Politics of Community: New Labour and the Eclipse of Society....Pages 22-34
Learning Communities and Tertiary Education....Pages 35-46
‘For All the Women Out There’: Community and the Ethics of Care in the Marketing of a Breast Cancer Fundraising Event....Pages 47-59
Contingent Communities: British Social Policy and the Invention of Refugee Communities....Pages 60-69
Front Matter....Pages 71-71
Justice Within and Between Communities....Pages 73-84
Globalization, Multiple Threats and the Weakness of International Institutions: A Community-Centred Response....Pages 85-96
The Ideal of a Sustainable Community, 2006....Pages 97-110
Community Informatics: Building Civil Society in the Information Age?....Pages 111-122
Working with the Community: Research and Action....Pages 123-136
impetus: A Movement Towards Shared Ethical Values and Human Rights....Pages 137-149
Front Matter....Pages 151-151
Building Healthy Communities....Pages 153-162
How Communities Can Use Geographical Information Systems....Pages 163-177
Community Capacity Building, Community Development and Health: A Case Study of ‘Health Issues in the Community’....Pages 178-190
A Community of Expertise: Positioning the UK Environmental Breast Cancer Movement....Pages 191-203
Towards Understanding Community: Developing Participatory Working....Pages 204-217
Back Matter....Pages 218-250