Diversity and Community: An Interdisciplinary Reader
- ISBN13:
9780470755426
- ISBN10:
0470755423
- Format: eBook
- Copyright: 2008-06-01
- Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary
Diversity and Community: An Interdisciplinary Reader is a collection of essays exploring the notion of community in its many theoretical, practical, and cultural manifestations. A collection of specially commissioned essays exploring the notion of community in its many theoretical, practical, and cultural manifestations. Discusses the idea of community in its full, cultural context. Deals with issues confronting many diverse groups, including African American, Franco-Canadian, computer-mediated, and gay and lesbian communities. Includes contributions by both eminent schlars and new voices, among them Martha Nussbaum, Jean Bethke Elsthain, D.A. Masolo, Mary Hawkesworth, Lewis Gordon, Maria Lugones, Crispin Sartwell, Duane Champagne, and Frank Cunningham.
Table of Contents
| List of Contributors | |
| Preface | |
| Introduction: Diversity and Community | |
| Community and Its Contestations: | |
| Communities and Community: Critique and Retrieval | |
| Community at the Margin | |
| Impure Communities | |
| Identities: The Dynamical Dimensions of Diversity | |
| From Village to Global Contexts: Ideas, Types, and the Making of Communities | |
| Obligation Across Generations: A Consideration in the Understanding of Community Formation | |
| Community, Constitutive Identities, and Resisting Subjects: | |
| Citizenship or Transgression?: Dilemmas of the US Movement for Lesbian/Gay Rights | |
| Diversity, Inequality, and Community: African Americans and People of Color in the United States | |
| Renewing American Indian Nations: Cosmic Communities and Spiritual Autonomy | |
| Nations and Nationalism: The Case of Canada/Quebec | |
| Love, Care, and WomenĘs Dignity: The Family as a Privileged Community | |
| Community and Society, Melancholy and Sociopathy | |
| Community, Culture, and Education: | |
| The Role of Art in Sustaining Communities | |
| Images of Community in American Popular Culture | |
| Virtual Communities: Chinatowns Made in America | |
| Villages, Local and Global: Observations on Computer-Mediated and Geographically Situated Communities | |
| The University as a Universe of Communities | |
| Index | |
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