Searching for community : representation, power and action on an urban estate / Jeremy Brent ; foreword by Doug Nicholls ; introduction by Richard Johnson ; Epilogue by Patrick Dorney [and others] ; afterword by Marjorie Mayo
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- JSTOR EBA.
- Note
- "The Community and Youth Workers' Union."
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-296) and index.
- Contents
- Searching for community; Contents; Foreword; Notes on the author; Introduction; 1. Four settings: contexts and questions; 2. Researching Southmead: problems of representation and participation; 3. The intelligent outsider? Official and media representations of Southmead; 4. Knowledge from within: community art and local representations; 5. The outsider within: crossing worlds; 6. Young people and community: trouble and tribes; 7. Four examples of community action in Southmead; 8. What is community anyway?; 9. Engaging with community.
- Summary
- This book examines ways to understand and engage with the troublesome concept of 'community', presenting a variety of perspectives to challenge the ways in which areas of poverty and disrepute are represented.
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- Print version record.
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- Subject
- Communities -- Great Britain.
- Social structure -- Great Britain.
- Group identity -- Great Britain.
- Neighborhoods -- Great Britain.
- Communauté -- Grande-Bretagne.
- Structure sociale -- Grande-Bretagne.
- Identité collective -- Grande-Bretagne.
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Social Work.
- Communities. (OCoLC)fst01430092
- Group identity. (OCoLC)fst00948442
- Neighborhoods. (OCoLC)fst01715963
- Social structure. (OCoLC)fst01123372
- Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
- Other Form:
- Print version: Brent, Jeremy, 1950-2006. Searching for community. Bristol, UK ; Portland, OR : Policy Press, 2009 9781847423245 (OCoLC)251187525
- ISBN
- 9781847423252 (electronic bk.)
- 1847423256 (electronic bk.)
- 1282385836
- 9781282385832
- 9786612385834
- 6612385839
- 9781847423245 (hbk.)
- 1847423248 (hbk.)
- 9781847423238 (pbk.)
- 184742323X (pbk.)