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Understanding community is a highly topical text offering a clear understanding of policy and theory in relation to community. By examining areas of government policy, such as economic development, education, health, housing, and community safety, this book explores the difficulties that communities face and discusses new concepts such as community cohesion, social capital and community capacity building. Somerville challenges our understanding of community, both social and conceptual, and assesses the strengths and limitations of this understanding. This book is essential for students studying social policy, social work and sociology, and an invaluable resource for policymakers in community development, urban regeneration and allied fields.
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Peter Somerville, Department of Policy Studies, University of Lincoln
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In developing his conception of beloved community, Peter Somerville brings a fresh and radical perspective to communitarian theory and practice. This book will inspire and provoke readers in equal measure. Jonathan Davies, University of Warwick
In this book, Peter Somerville provides a trenchant critique of current approaches to community, drawing extensively on both theory and recent research. With its thought-provoking and in-depth analysis of what it might mean to be a community, he has provided an invaluable resource for all who study, debate, or practise in, this important field. Marilyn Taylor, University of the West of England
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- PublisherPolicy Press
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 1847423922
- ISBN 13 9781847423924
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number2
- Number of pages304
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