Renegotiating Community: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Global Contexts

✍ Scribed by Diana Brydon, William D. Coleman

• Publisher: UBC Press
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 328
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Both as a concept and as a social form, community is central to contemporary debates about globalization. Yet there is no consensus on why community matters or how globalization affects particular communities. What seems clear, however, is that people are seeking to claim, retain, or reconsider how they define and represent themselves, live together, and determine their futures. Autonomy in this sense has become a compelling question for communities across the world. Renegotiating Community asks what happens to the autonomy of individuals and communities in such circumstances. Original case studies show how a range of communities are renegotiating the meanings of community and autonomy while living with, and sometimes challenging, the processes of globalization. By addressing the coercive and comforting dimensions of community and the need to reconcile conflicting claims to autonomy, this book redraws the conceptual maps through which community, globalization, and autonomy are understood.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 12
1 Globalization, Autonomy, and Community......Page 16
Part 1: Global Capitalism and Community Renewal......Page 44
2 Globalism, Primitive Accumulation, and Nishnawbe Aski Territory: The Strategic Denial of Place-Based Community......Page 46
3 Twentieth-Century Transformations of Native Identity, Citizenship, Power, and Authority......Page 62
4 Reaffirming “Community” in the Context of Community-Based Conservation......Page 81
5 The Moral Economy of Global Forestry in Rural British Columbia......Page 98
6 From Servitude to Dignity? A Community in Transition......Page 118
7 Community without Status: Non-Status Migrants and Cities of Refuge......Page 138
Part 2: Building Transnational Communities......Page 154
8 Transnational Women’s Groups and Social Policy Activists around the UN and the EU......Page 156
9 Labour, Globalization, and the Attempt to Build Transnational Community......Page 179
10 Transnational Transformation: Cyberactivism and the Palestinian Right of Return......Page 198
11 The Tensions of Global Imperial Community: Canada’s Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire (IODE)......Page 216
12 Development Workers, Transcultural Interactions, and Imperial Relations in Northern Pakistan......Page 231
13 The Brotherhood of the Rope: Commodification and Contradiction in the “Mountaineering Community”......Page 249
14 Why Community Matters......Page 261
Abbreviations......Page 276
Notes and Acknowledgments......Page 279
Works Cited......Page 288
Contributors......Page 311
A......Page 314
B......Page 315
C......Page 316
E......Page 317
G......Page 318
I......Page 319
M......Page 321
N......Page 322
P......Page 323
S......Page 324
U......Page 325
W......Page 326
Z......Page 328