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Towards Understanding Community

People and Places

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  • © 2007

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Editors:
  1. Christopher J. Clay

    1. York St John University, UK

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  2. Mary Madden

    1. University of York, UK

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  3. Laura Potts

    1. York St John University, UK

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. People and Places: An Introduction Towards Understanding Community

    1. People and Places: An Introduction Towards Understanding Community

      • Christopher J. Clay, Mary Madden, Laura Potts
      Pages 1-3

  3. The Signature Quilt

    1. The Signature Quilt

      • Roxy Walsh
      Pages 4-8

  5. Justice Within and Between Communities

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 71-71
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    2. Justice Within and Between Communities

      • Mary Madden
      Pages 73-84

    3. Globalization, Multiple Threats and the Weakness of International Institutions: A Community-Centred Response

      • Simon Sweeney
      Pages 85-96

    4. The Ideal of a Sustainable Community, 2006

      • Kristina Peat
      Pages 97-110

    5. Community Informatics: Building Civil Society in the Information Age?

      • Leigh Keeble
      Pages 111-122

    6. Working with the Community: Research and Action

      • Gayle Letherby, Geraldine Brady, Geraldine Brown
      Pages 123-136

    7. impetus: A Movement Towards Shared Ethical Values and Human Rights

      • Adam Short
      Pages 137-149
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About this book

Written in the temporal and political context of the British New Labour Government's ongoing reliance on the word community, academics and activists critically engage here with the range of ways in which contemporary ideas of community are being used and contested. The key focus is on understanding community from action into theory and vice versa.

Editors and Affiliations

  • York St John University, UK

    Christopher J. Clay, Laura Potts

  • University of York, UK

    Mary Madden

About the editors

STUART BILLINGHAM Professor of Lifelong and Pro Vice Chancellor, York St John University, UK GERALDINE BRADY Research Fellow in the Centre for Social Justice, Coventry University, UK GERALDINE BROWN Senior Research Assistant in the Centre for Social Justice, Coventry University, UK STEVE CINDERBY Geographer and former Deputy Director of the Stockholm Environment Institute Centre at York, UK JULIA D'ALOISIO Currently working with an NGO based in Geneva, Switzerland. LEIGH KEEBLE 'Translational' Research Fellow working on the ESRC e-Society Programme, Department of Sociology, University of York, UK LYNNETTE KELLY City councillor in Coventry, UK GAYLE LETHERBY Professor of Sociology, School of Law and Social Science, University of Plymouth, UK FRASER MURRAY Refugee Officer for Coventry City Council, UK SIMON PARKER Senior Lecturer in Politics, University of York, UK KRISTINA PEAT Sustainability Officer for the City of York Council, UK RICHARD PHILLIPS Researcher in the Division of Community Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh, UK ADAM SHORT Former England Coordinator for the impetus human rights and ethical values awards programme at the Institute for Global Ethics UK Trust, London, UK and has recently taken up a new post with Oxfam. SIMON SWEENEY Head of Programme for the MA in International Studies: Contemporary Societies and Culture, York St John University, UK

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