Overview
- Offers the first interdisciplinary survey of community research in the humanities and social sciences
- Explores the state-of-the-art in community research
- Develops future perspectives for a cross-disciplinary rethinking of community
- Allows for a novel assessment of the concept’s complexity
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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What Is Community?
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The Digital Age and Communities in Flux
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Community between Social Empowerment and Exploitation
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About this book
This book offers the first interdisciplinary survey of community research in the humanities and social sciences to consider such diverse disciplines as philosophy, religious studies, anthropology, sociology, disabilities studies, linguistics, communication studies, and film studies. Bringing together leading international experts, the collection of essays critically maps and explores the state of the art in community research, while also developing future perspectives for a cross-disciplinary rethinking of community.
Pursuing such a critical, transdisciplinary approach to community, the book argues, can counteract reductive appropriations of the term ‘community’ and, instead, pave the way for a novel assessment of the concept’s complexity. Since community is, above all, a lived practice that shapes people’s everyday lives, the essays also suggest ways of redoing community; they discuss concrete examples of community practice, thereby bridging the gap between scholars and activists working in the field.Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Bettina Jansen, Ph.D., is a research assistant and lecturer at the Department of English Literature, TU Dresden, Germany. She is the author of Narratives of Community in the Black British Short Story (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) and has published several articles on literary negotiations of community in black British short fiction in academic journals and essay collections. Bettina is also the co-editor of the first German-language handbook on masculinity studies, Männlichkeit: Ein interdisziplinäres Handbuch (2016, with Stefan Horlacher and Wieland Schwanebeck).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Rethinking Community through Transdisciplinary Research
Editors: Bettina Jansen
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31073-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-31072-1Published: 31 January 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-31075-2Published: 26 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-31073-8Published: 31 December 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 311
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cultural Theory, Cultural Anthropology, Media and Communication, Social Work and Community Development, Community and Environmental Psychology