Community, locality and social(ist) transformation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3558994 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Nettleingham (0000-0002-7282-9366, University of Kent, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 66 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 593-607 |
| Publication date | 2018-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Sociological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0261 • E-ISSN: 1467-954X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0038026117723251 |
| OpenAlex | W2736543404 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 28 |
Community is elusive, desirable, rhetorical; something lost and something to be built; a relationship, a concept, a synonym, a place (real or imagined). This article explores the roles that the complexity of community's conceptualisation has played in the development of political identities, goals and rationales for action. Drawing on the ways in which it has been conceptualised and utilised in sociological, historical and political understandings of social change, and a series of interviews with members of British socialist organisations, the article examines the relationship and equation between 'community', and 'location', 'local' and 'place' that develop as these terms become drawn into a wider project for social transformation. It is argued that ideas of location have not only framed how community is operationalised to imagine and enact this transformation, but that location itself is conceptualised in multiple, equally complex ways through this association. Social change becomes relatable, an articulable experience of large-scale processes, of social problems, of power and resistance. Community is reified, and change is made possible through a sense of locality
Action (physics) · Epistemology · Locality · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Resistance (ecology) · Rhetorical question · Social change · Social science · Social transformation · Sociology · Law · Mental Health and Patient Involvement · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Social Work Education and Practice
Whole World Is Watching
The Concept of Utopia
Why Not Socialism
Researching Families and Communities
The Symbolic Construction of Community
Globalization and Belonging
The Common in Communism
Industrial Ruination, Community, and Place. Landscapes and Legacies of Urban Decline
Community and Organization in the New Left
Progressive localism and the construction of political alternatives
A Note on Nostalgia
Imagined communities
The communist hypothesis
Habits of the Heart
Village on the Border
Habits of the Heart
Being in Community
Community Studies and Re-Studies in the 21st Century
Are all Communities Communities in the Mind
The Challenges and Opportunities of Re-Studying Community on Sheppey
Imagined Communities. Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
Community Studies
Working-Class Images of Society
The local state
Canonical Generations and the British Left
Personal Communities
Community without Propinquity Revisited
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |