Renegotiating Community : Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Global Contexts.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (328 pages)
- Globalization and Autonomy Series .
- Globalization and Autonomy Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Globalization, Autonomy, and Community -- Part 1: Global Capitalism and Community Renewal -- 2 Globalism, Primitive Accumulation, and Nishnawbe Aski Territory: The Strategic Denial of Place-Based Community -- 3 Twentieth-Century Transformations of Native Identity, Citizenship, Power, and Authority -- 4 Reaffirming "Community" in the Context of Community-Based Conservation -- 5 The Moral Economy of Global Forestry in Rural British Columbia -- 6 From Servitude to Dignity? A Community in Transition -- 7 Community without Status: Non-Status Migrants and Cities of Refuge -- Part 2: Building Transnational Communities -- 8 Transnational Women's Groups and Social Policy Activists around the UN and the EU -- 9 Labour, Globalization, and the Attempt to Build Transnational Community -- 10 Transnational Transformation: Cyberactivism and the Palestinian Right of Return -- 11 The Tensions of Global Imperial Community: Canada's Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire (IODE) -- 12 Development Workers, Transcultural Interactions, and Imperial Relations in Northern Pakistan -- 13 The Brotherhood of the Rope: Commodification and Contradiction in the "Mountaineering Community" -- 14 Why Community Matters -- Abbreviations -- Notes and Acknowledgments -- Works Cited -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- Z.
Using original case studies to show how a range of communities deal with the forces of globalization, this book redraws the conceptual maps through which community, globalization, and autonomy are understood.
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Communities. Globalization -- Social aspects. Autonomy. Transnationalism. Group identity.