Top-down Community Building and the Politics of Inclusion (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)

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 facilitated among 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.

General

Imprint:	Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Europe in Transition: The NYU European Studies Series
Release date:	June 2017
First published:	2017
Authors:	Fenneke Wekker
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	93
Edition:	1st ed. 2017
ISBN-13:	978-3-319-53963-8
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Public administration Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms > Human rights > Civil rights & citizenship
LSN:	3-319-53963-9
Barcode:	9783319539638

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