Constructing Community

Author : Jeremy Levine
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691205884
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constructing Community written by Jeremy Levine and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at the benefits and consequences of the rise of community-based organizations in urban development Who makes decisions that shape the housing, policies, and social programs in urban neighborhoods? Who, in other words, governs? Constructing Community offers a rich ethnographic portrait of the individuals who implement community development projects in the Fairmount Corridor, one of Boston’s poorest areas. Jeremy Levine uncovers a network of nonprofits and philanthropic foundations making governance decisions alongside public officials—a public-private structure that has implications for democratic representation and neighborhood inequality. Levine spent four years following key players in Boston’s community development field. While state senators and city councilors are often the public face of new projects, and residents seem empowered through opportunities to participate in public meetings, Levine found a shadow government of nonprofit leaders and philanthropic funders, nonelected neighborhood representatives with their own particular objectives, working behind the scenes. Tying this system together were political performances of “community”—government and nonprofit leaders, all claiming to value the community. Levine provocatively argues that there is no such thing as a singular community voice, meaning any claim of community representation is, by definition, illusory. He shows how community development is as much about constructing the idea of community as it is about the construction of physical buildings in poor neighborhoods. Constructing Community demonstrates how the nonprofit sector has become integral to urban policymaking, and the tensions and trade-offs that emerge when private nonprofits take on the work of public service provision.

Author : J. Donald Moon
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400821118
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constructing Community written by J. Donald Moon and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-14 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In developing a new theory of political and moral community, J. Donald Moon takes questions of cultural pluralism and difference more seriously than do many other liberal thinkers of our era: Moon is willing to confront the problem of how community can be created among those who have very different views about the proper ends of human life. Experiencing such profound disagreement, can we live together in a society under norms we all accept? In recent years, traditional ways of looking at this query have come under attack by post-modernists, feminists, and thinkers concerned with pluralism. Respectfully engaging their critiques, Moon proposes a reformulated liberalism that is intended to overcome the problems they have identified.

Author : Jacques Baudot
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295998814
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building a World Community written by Jacques Baudot and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2015-09-14 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building a World Community: Globalisation and the Common Good

Author : Brian Elliott, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Portland State University, USA
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739139681
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constructing Community written by Brian Elliott, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Portland State University, USA and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2010-08-20 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constructing Community is a provocative and original analysis of the question of urban politics in contemporary liberal democracies.This book examines community from the particular perspective of the shaping and control of urban space in contemporary liberal democracies. Further, it offers a strong case for reconsidering current debates on democratic politics in light of the connection between political power and the control of public space and the built environment.

Author : Jeremy R. Levine
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691193657
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constructing Community written by Jeremy R. Levine and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at the benefits and consequences of the rise of community-based organizations in urban development Who makes decisions that shape the housing, policies, and social programs in urban neighborhoods? Who, in other words, governs? Constructing Community offers a rich ethnographic portrait of the individuals who implement community development projects in the Fairmount Corridor, one of Boston’s poorest areas. Jeremy Levine uncovers a network of nonprofits and philanthropic foundations making governance decisions alongside public officials—a public-private structure that has implications for democratic representation and neighborhood inequality. Levine spent four years following key players in Boston’s community development field. While state senators and city councilors are often the public face of new projects, and residents seem empowered through opportunities to participate in public meetings, Levine found a shadow government of nonprofit leaders and philanthropic funders, nonelected neighborhood representatives with their own particular objectives, working behind the scenes. Tying this system together were political performances of “community”—government and nonprofit leaders, all claiming to value the community. Levine provocatively argues that there is no such thing as a singular community voice, meaning any claim of community representation is, by definition, illusory. He shows how community development is as much about constructing the idea of community as it is about the construction of physical buildings in poor neighborhoods. Constructing Community demonstrates how the nonprofit sector has become integral to urban policymaking, and the tensions and trade-offs that emerge when private nonprofits take on the work of public service provision.

Author : James S. Gruber
Publisher : New Society Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780865719323
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building Community written by James S. Gruber and published by New Society Publishers. This book was released on 2020-05-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building Community is a practical guide for local leaders working to build equitable, healthy, and sustainable communities. Featuring a chapter covering each of 12 Guiding Principles common to thriving communities, the book includes rich case studies and leaderships tools.

Author : Andrea Wenzel
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252043307
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Community-Centered Journalism written by Andrea Wenzel and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2020-08-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary journalism faces a crisis of trust that threatens the institution and may imperil democracy itself. Critics and experts see a renewed commitment to local journalism as one solution. But a lasting restoration of public trust requires a different kind of local journalism than is often imagined, one that engages with and shares power among all sectors of a community. Andrea Wenzel models new practices of community-centered journalism that build trust across boundaries of politics, race, and class, and prioritize solutions while engaging the full range of local stakeholders. Informed by case studies from rural, suburban, and urban settings, Wenzel's blueprint reshapes journalism norms and creates vigorous storytelling networks between all parts of a community. Envisioning a portable, rather than scalable, process, Wenzel proposes a community-centered journalism that, once implemented, will strengthen lines of local communication, reinvigorate civic participation, and forge a trusting partnership between media and the people they cover.

Author : Atsuhiro Asano
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 056703027X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Community-Identity Construction in Galatians written by Atsuhiro Asano and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2005-07-17 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The issue of community-identity construction in Galatians is considered using two methods: first, by applying anthropological theories to the mechanism and natures of community-identity and its construction, and second, by comparing the Galatian community with another minority religious community. Asano argues that Paul's effort at identity construction is partially conditioned by his self-awareness as an autonomous apostle and by the external pressures of the significant groups elsewhere. Paul's conflict, depicted in Galatians 2 and projected upon the Galatian situation, is understood as a conflict between the ethno-centred and the 'instrumental mode' of community constructions, the latter of which is free from the constraints of core ethnic sentiment. Galatians 4.21-31 is identified as a conceptual framework (or 'recreated worldview') for the community members to be assured of their authentic existence under marginalizing pressure. This recreated worldview is ritually acted out in baptism with the egalitarian motif (Gal 3.28) to help internalize the authentic identity. Finally, Paul's letter is suggested to have functioned as a physical locus of community-identity. Thus the autographic marker (Gal 6.11) directs the attention of the audience not only to the conceptual content but to the presence of the founding apostle that the letter replaces.

Author : Janneke Raaijmakers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107002818
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Making of the Monastic Community of Fulda, C.744-c.900 written by Janneke Raaijmakers and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A well-integrated and sophisticated investigation into the development of religious life in an influential early medieval monastic community.

Author : B. Rumelili
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230286364
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constructing Regional Community and Order in Europe and Southeast Asia written by B. Rumelili and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-11-21 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the EU and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, this book demonstrates how collective identity depends on the construction of outsider states, such as Morocco, Turkey, and Australia, as different. It then analyzes how these regional organizations can consequently aggravate conflicts involving outsider states.