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Reading the Community: A Critique of Some Postmodern Narratives of Citizenship and Community

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Transforming Politics

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Abstract

The ‘community’ has emerged as a potent theme in contemporary political and intellectual discourse. The construction of community supplied by the radical Right sets the dominant context for the ensuing discussion. The radical Right project has been the subject of a sustained left and feminist critique. Much of this work has focused upon the remaking of civil society in the form of markets in education and health (Arnot, 1992; Whitty, 1994; Epstein and Kenway, 1996; Hey, 1996). However, in the UK1 there has been less feminist attention paid to the ‘communitarian project’, which itself has to be seen as an intervention in the politics of globalisation, community and civil society.

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  1. Valerie Hey
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  1. University of Leeds, UK

    Paul Bagguley (Senior Lecturer in Sociology) (Senior Lecturer in Sociology)

  2. Faculty of Economic and Social Studies, University of Manchester, UK

    Jeff Hearn (Professorial Research Fellow) (Professorial Research Fellow)

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Hey, V. (1999). Reading the Community: A Critique of Some Postmodern Narratives of Citizenship and Community. In: Bagguley, P., Hearn, J. (eds) Transforming Politics. Explorations in Sociology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-27429-1_12

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