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Against the Romance of Community
Engelsk Paperback
Against the Romance of Community
Engelsk Paperback

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An unexpected and valuable critique of community that points out its complicity with capitalism

Community is almost always invoked as an unequivocal good, an indicator of a high quality of life, caring, selflessness, belonging. Into this common portrayal, Against the Romance of Community introduces an uncommon note of caution, a penetrating, sorely needed sense of what, precisely, we are doing when we call upon this ideal.

Miranda Joseph explores sites where the ideal of community relentlessly recurs, from debates over art and culture in the popular media, to the discourses and practices of nonprofit and nongovernmental organizations, to contemporary narratives of economic transformation or "globalization." She shows how community legitimates the social hierarchies of gender, race, nation, and sexuality that capitalism implicitly requires.

Joseph argues that social formations, including community, are constituted through the performativity of production. This strategy makes it possible to understand connections between identities and communities that would otherwise seem disconnected: gay consumers in the United States and Mexican maquiladora workers; Christian right "family values" and Asian "crony capitalism." Exposing the complicity of social practices, identities, and communities with capitalism, this truly constructive critique opens the possibility of genuine alliances across such differences.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
272
ISBN-13:
9780816637966
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0816637962
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
4 nov 2002
Længde:
17mm
Bredde:
226mm
Højde:
150mm
Forlag:
University of Minnesota Press
Oplagsdato:
4 nov 2002
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