Rethinking Community through Transdisciplinary Research

This book offers the first interdisciplinary survey of community research in the humanities and social sciences to consider such diverse disciplines as philosophy, religious studies, anthropology, sociology, disabilities studies, linguistics, communication studies, and film studies. Bringing together leading international experts, the collection of essays critically maps and explores the state of the art in community research, while also developing future perspectives for a cross-disciplinary rethinking of community.Pursuing such a critical, transdisciplinary approach to community, the book argues, can counteract reductive appropriations of the term 'community' and, instead, pave the way for a novel assessment of the concept's complexity. Since community is, above all, a lived practice that shapes people's everyday lives, the essays also suggest ways of 'redoing' community; they discuss concrete examples of community practice, thereby bridging the gap between scholars and activistsworking in the field.

Bettina Jansen, Ph.D., is a research assistant and lecturer at the Department of English Literature, TU Dresden, Germany. She is the author of Narratives of Community in the Black British Short Story (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) and has published several articles on literary negotiations of community in black British short fiction in academic journals and essay collections. Bettina is also the co-editor of the first German-language handbook on masculinity studies, Männlichkeit: Ein interdisziplinäres Handbuch(2016, with Stefan Horlacher and Wieland Schwanebeck).

Auteur

Bettina Jansen, Ph.D., is a research assistant and lecturer at the Department of English Literature, TU Dresden, Germany. She is the author of Narratives of Community in the Black British Short Story (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) and has published several articles on literary negotiations of community in black British short fiction in academic journals and essay collections. Bettina is also the co-editor of the first German-language handbook on masculinity studies, Männlichkeit: Ein interdisziplinäres Handbuch (2016, with Stefan Horlacher and Wieland Schwanebeck).

Contenu

1. Introduction; Bettina JansenPart I. What Is Community?2. Rethinking Sociological Perspectives on Community: Community and Communality: Contours of Micro-Sociological Community Research; Matthias Grundmann and Frank Osterloh3. Rethinking Anthropological Perspectives on Community: Watchful Indifference and Joint Commitment: Coordination Challenges and Alternate Possibilities for Connection; Vered Amit4. Diversity in Community: Rethinking Psychological Perspectives on the Glue that Holds Us Together; Meg A. Bond and Christopher T. Allen5. Rethinking Philosophical Perspectives on Community: Prepositional Community; Irving Goh6 Rethinking Perspectives on Community in Theology and Religious Studies: Promoting the 'Peaceable Garden Culture of Religion': The Challenges of Growing Inclusive and Just Community; Pauline C.H. KollontaiPart II. The Digital Age and Communities in Flux7 Rethinking Community in Migration Studies: Belonging and Participating in World Society: Lessons from Transnational Families for Rethinking the Relationship between Gesellschaft and Gemeinschaft; Heike Greschke and Josephine Ott8. Rethinking Community in Communication and Information Studies: Digital Community and Community 'To Go'; Mary Chayko9. Rethinking Community in Linguistics: Getting Together on the Web: Language and Community in the Digital Age; Sven LeuckertPart III. Community between Social Empowerment and Exploitation10. Rethinking Community in Disability Studies: Chosen and Ascribed Communities or Intersecting Communities and Communities in Conflict; Cassandra Evans, Pamela Block, and Maria Milazzo11. Rethinking Community in Youth and Community Studies: Voices of the Young and Vulnerable in Malta: A Qualitative Study; Andrew Azzopardi12. Rethinking Community in Ageing Studies: Who Cares? The Rise of Community Capitalism and the New Elderly; Silke van DykPart IV. Community in the Arts13. Rethinking Community in Literature and Literary Studies: The Secret Communal Life of Paradise: Rethinking Community in Toni Morrison's Fiction; Paula Martín-Salván14. Rethinking Community on the Screen and in Film Studies: Image-Space and Space of Experience: On the Possibility of Community in the Cinema; Hauke Lehmann15. Rethinking Community in Musical Practice and Music Studies: The Community in Community Music: The Call, the Welcome, and the 'Yes'; Lee HigginsPart V. Reconstructing Community16. Peaceful Communities; Paul Born17. Rethinking Community in a Sport for Development and Peace Context; Holly Collison, Simon Darnell, Richard Giulianotti, and P. David Howe18. 'A New We': Post-Individualistic Community-Based Initiatives as Social Innovations?; Iris Kunze