Top-down Community Building and the Politics of Inclusion

Language: English

Published by Berlin Springer International Publishing Springer Aug 2018, 2018

3319852868 / 9783319852867

Series: Book 19 of 20 - Europe in Transition: The NYU European Studies Series

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This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book explores mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion involved in practices of community building through an ethnographic study of a neighborhood restaurant in Amsterdam. It presents important insights into the advantages and empowering effects of professional, top down community building in a disadvantaged neighborhood, as well as its tensions and contradictory outcomes. The core argument of the study is that, in spite of the abserved restaurant's well-intended and well-organized attempts to create an inclusive and heterogeneous local community, it instead established one both exclusive and homogeneous. Through a set of community building practices and discourses of 'deprivation' and 'ethnic and racial otherness,' the construction of collective fear for ethnic and racial 'others' was indirectly facilitatedamong the white, working class visitors. As a result, insurmountable barriers were erected for non-white and non-native Dutch residents to become part of the local community. This project speaks to social scientists as well as social workers, governments, and policy-makers concerned with issues of social cohesion, informal networks, and professional community building in disadvantaged urban settings. 93 pp. Englisch.

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Title
Top-down Community Building and the Politics of Inclusion
Author
Fenneke Wekker
Publisher
Berlin Springer International Publishing Springer Aug 2018
Publication year
2018
Condition
Neu
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Taschenbuch
Language
English
ISBN 10
3319852868
ISBN 13
9783319852867
Item weight
148 grams
Dimensions
210x148x6 mm
Series
Book 19 of 20: Europe in Transition: The NYU European Studies Series

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