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The politics of community: Togetherness, transition and post-politics.
- Source :
- Environment & Planning A; Oct2017, Vol. 49 Issue 10, p2383-2401, 19p
- Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- This article excavates the role, function and practices of community within Transition, a grassroots environmentalist movement. It does so to pursue a quest for understanding if, how, and in what ways, community-based environmental movements are 'political'. When community-based low carbon initiatives are discussed academically, they can be critiqued; this critique is in turn often based on the perception that the crucial community aspect tends to be a settled, static and reified condition of (human) togetherness. However community--both in theory and practice--is not destined to be so. This article collects and evaluates data from two large research projects on the Transition movement. It takes this ethnographic evidence together with lessons from post-political theory, to outline the capacious, diverse and progressive forms of community that exists within the movement. Doing so, it argues against a blanket postpolitical diagnosis of community transitions, and opens up, yet again, the consequences of the perceptions and prejudices one has about community are more than mere theoretical posturing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0308518X
- Volume :
- 49
- Issue :
- 10
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Environment & Planning A
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 125727266
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X17724443