The New Politics of Community
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4522253 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Patricia Hill Collins (0009-0002-7934-0691, University of Maryland, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 75 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 7-30 |
| Publication date | 2010-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Sociological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-1224 • E-ISSN: 1939-8271 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0003122410363293 |
| OpenAlex | W2099624032 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 116 |
| References cited | 31 |
Ideas about community are especially prominent in late-twentieth-century U.S. society. The term community resonates throughout social policy, scholarship, popular culture, and everyday social interactions. It holds significance for different populations with competing political agendas (e.g., political groups of the right and the left invoke ideas of community yet have very different ideas in mind). No longer seen as naturally occurring, apolitical spaces to which one retreats to escape the pressures of modern life, communities of all sorts now constitute sites of political engagement and contestation. The new politics of community reveals how the idea of community constitutes an elastic political construct that holds a variety of contradictory meanings and around which diverse social practices occur. In this address, I analyze how reframing the idea of community as a political construct might provide new avenues for investigating social inequalities. I first explore the utility of community as a political construct for rethinking both intersecting systems of power and activities that are routinely characterized as ''political.'' Next, by examining five contemporary sites where community is either visibly named as a political construct or implicated in significant political phenomena, I investigate how the construct of community operates within contemporary power relations of class, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, age, ability, nation, and race. Finally, I explore the potential intellectual and political significance of these developments
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A diferença que o poder faz
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Intersectionality
Community
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La démocratie urbaine au prisme de la communauté
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Status
Using intersectionality responsibly
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The Black Deaf Community’s Fight Against White Language Supremacy
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The Gender-Based Violence and Precarity Nexus
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The Cheonan Incident and East Asian Community Debate
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Community governance, welfare service provision and state power in changing Chinese villages
Invisible but not Forgotten
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Weaving a larger web
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Negotiating control
Contested Engagements
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Nonprofits
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Resistance within South Africa’s Passive Revolution
Uncovering the Transformative Labor in Black Women's Community Work
Bordering Community
General Social Theory or Resistant Knowledge Project
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When educators attempt to make “community” a part of classroom learning
Contested pasts, complicated presents
You stick up for all kids”
The Important Role of Government in Comprehensive Community Initiatives
Changing Contexts of Practice
Rationalization of belonging
Adult learning for nutrition security
Administrative reclassification and neighborhood governance in urbanizing China
Spatial production in the process of rapid urbanisation and ageing
Power and the History of Peace and Conflict Studies
Community and Inequality
Cooperation, Coordination, and Control
Integrating Organization Studies and Community Psychology
Communities built on political trust
Reconceptualizing Professional Communities for Preservice Urban Teachers
Who are these Projects Really for?”
Black Women in the United States and Unpaid Collective Work
From Conflict to Communities
The community strike
Toward a Community Centric Pedagogy
Quiet is the New Loud”
From abandonment to autonomy
Community-As-Difference
Dimensions of marketplace exclusion
Intersectionality's Definitional Dilemmas
Your Life Jacket in Academia
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Gender-based and intersectional violence in migration and refugee contexts
Practice Contestation in and between Communities of Practice
Beyond the Land of Thorns
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Collective demands and secret codes
Inclusive local governance
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Subversive Self-Employment
The Cultural-Cognitive Mapping of Scientific Professions
Civic Narratives
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Fighting words
The Symbolic Construction of Community
Community and Civil Society
The structural transformation of the public sphere
The Miner’s Canary
Dry Bones Rattling
Black Feminist Thought
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Deadly Symbiosis
Race, Class, Gender
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Intergenerational and community responsibility
The American dream of community
[U]Nited and Actuated by Some Common Impulse of Passion”
Community of Inquiry
Racism and Nationalism
Complexity Theory, Systems Theory, and Multiple Intersecting Social Inequalities
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Immigration Theory for a New Century
The Responsive Community
Standpoint theory, situated knowledge and the situated imagination
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| Unique citing works | 116 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 7,73 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2026 (16) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 112 |