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Towards understanding community :

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Towards understanding community :

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people and places

edited by Christopher J. Clay, Mary Madden, Laura Potts.

Basingstoke [England] ; New York

Palgrave Macmillan

2007

(xi, 250 pages) : illustrations

People and places : an introduction towards understanding community / Christopher J. Clay, Mary Madden, Laura Potts --;The signature quilt / Roxy Walsh --;Locating community : an introduction / Christopher J. Clay --;The politics of community : new labour and the eclipse of society / Simon Parker --;Learning communities and tertiary education / Stuart Billingham --;"For all the women out there" : community and the ethics of care in the marketing of a breast cancer fundraising event / Julia D'Aloisio --;Contingent communities : British social policy and the invention of refugee communities / Lynnette Kelly --;Justice within and between communities / Mary Madden --;Globalization, multiple threats and the weakness of international institutions : a community-centred response / Simon Sweeney --;The ideal of a sustainable community, 2006 / Kristina Peat --;Community informatics : building civil society in the information age? / Leigh Keeble --;Working with the community : research and action / Gayle Letherby, Geraldine Brady, Geraldine Brown --;Impetus, a movement towards shared ethical values and human rights / Adam Short --;Building healthy communities / Laura Potts --;How communities can use geographical information systems / Steve Cinderby --;Community capacity building, community development and health : a case study of "Health Issues in the Community" / Richard Phillips --;A community of expertise : positioning the UK environmental breast cancer movement / Laura Potts --;Towards understanding community : promoting participatory working / Pat Turton.

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.

Community development -- Great Britain.

Great Britain -- Social policy -- 1979-

Social planning -- Great Britain.

edited by Christopher J. Clay, Mary Madden, Laura Potts.

Christopher J Clay

Laura Potts

Mary Madden

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