Reference : The politics of community: togetherness, Transition and post-politics
Scientific journals : Article
Social & behavioral sciences, psychology : Human geography & demography
Sustainable Development
http://hdl.handle.net/10993/31736
The politics of community: togetherness, Transition and post-politics
English
Taylor Aiken, Gerald mailto [University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education (FLSHASE) > Identités, Politiques, Sociétés, Espaces (IPSE) >]
2017
Environment and Planning A
Sage
Yes (verified by ORBilu)
International
0308-518X
1472-3409
[en] Community ; Low Carbon Transitions ; Post-Politics
[en] This article excavates the role, function and practices of community within Transition, a grassroots environmentalist movement. It does so to pursue a quest for understanding if, how, and in what ways, community-based environmental movements are ‘political’. When community-based low carbon initiatives are discussed academically, they can be critiqued; this critique is in turn often based on the perception that the crucial community aspect tends to be a settled, static and reified condition of (human) togetherness. However community—both in theory and practice—is not destined to be so. This article collects and evaluates data from two large research projects on the Transition movement. It takes this ethnographic evidence together with lessons from post-political theory, to outline the capacious, diverse and progressive forms of community that exists within the movement. Doing so, it argues against a blanket post-political diagnosis of community transitions, and opens up, yet again, the consequences of the perceptions and prejudices one has about community are more than mere theoretical posturing.
http://hdl.handle.net/10993/31736
10.1177/0308518X17724443
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0308518X17724443

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