Abstract
Globalization has made conceptual models that view the planet as a spaceship or village increasingly relevant for understanding how envi-ronmental degradation, technological innovation, and global capitalism have altered our understanding of space and time; however, these metaphors are incongruent with how most people understand and perform community in their everyday lives. As a result, one collateral impact of globalization may be increased anxiety over the language and practices that define community in an otherwise shrinking world. Many scholars, less reticent when drawing this connection, posit that we are currently facing a crisis of community. Adam Renner is one service-learning proponent who forwards this argument; however, since a crisis implicitly posits a previous period of stability, Renner is quick to question if a stable sense of community has ever truly existed (59). That he does not pursue this question further is not surprising since it would inevitably highlight the chimeric nature of community.
And they live for the most part in hope; for hope is for the future,
and memory is of what has gone by, but for the young the future
is long and the past short; for in the dawn of life nothing can be
remembered, and everything [can be] hoped for.
Aristotle, On Rhetoric: A Theory of Civic Discourse
We can begin with endings.
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Emika, A. (2012). Imagined Community Service: Queering Narratives of Place and Time in Service Learning. In: Nagy-Zekmi, S., Hollis, K. (eds) Global Academe. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137014931_14
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