Introduction

Abstract

The term Inclusive Communities has increasingly featured in recent years, at policy, practice and academic levels, drawing from different disciplinary standpoints such as education, anthropology, sociology, psychology and philosophy among others. This has included efforts at addressing the exclusions confronted by certain populations, or to develop the notion of and mechanisms by which communities can include those who are marginalised and/or oppressed. Still, this deceptive inter-disciplinary term remains shrouded in epistemological darkness, conveniently endorsed but often little understood and insufficiently theorised and developed.