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This critical volume explores the meaning of sociology and sociological knowledge in light of the recent growth and institutionalization of the discipline. A stellar group of international authors powerfully identify, question, and transform key assumptions in sociology. Leading us through the challenges faced by sociology, and the possible strategies for addressing them in the future, the book includes discussion of key issues such as: globalization; development; social policy; and inequality.
Community as Social Metaphor: The Need for a Genealogy of Social Collectivities
Community as Social Metaphor: The Need for a Genealogy of Social Collectivities
This chapter explores the uses of the idiom of community to articulate the changing relationship between community and state. I draw on topics from my own research experience – the impact of civil war on urban life; human rights politics of resistance to repression; Muslim immigrant marginality and Diaspora politics; development, community and governmentality – to show the ways ‘community’ is invoked from above and below to articulate the relationship between the local and the translocal. The chapter explores community as: a space of survival; the social basis of mobilization to make collective claims over shared grievances; the idiom through which groups ...
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