Key Concepts in Community Studies

Tony Blackshaw is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology of Sport & Leisure at Sheffield Hallam University and author of The SAGE Dictionary of Leisure Studies (SAGE, 2009) and Zygmunt Bauman (Routledge ′Key Sociologists′, 2005)

This book is both insightful and engaging, enriched with diverse and up-to-date readings. Tony Blackshaw lays bare debates surrounding the uses and abuses of key concepts of community studies and breathes new life into community as theory and community studies as method.

• Setting the Record Straight: What Is Community? And What Does It Mean Today?Community as TheoryA Theory of CommunityHermeneutic CommunitiesLiquid Modern CommunitiesPostmodern CommunitiesCommunity as MethodAction ResearchCommunity ProfilingCommunity StudiesEthnographySocial Network AnalysisCommunity as PlaceCosmopolitanism, Worldliness and the Cultural IntermediariesLiminality, Communitas and Anti-StructureLocality, Place and NeighbourhoodVirtual CommunitiesCommunity as Identity/BelongingCommunity and IdentityImagined CommunitiesNeo-Tribes See Setting the Record Straight, Leisure and Its Communities, Liquid Modern Communities and Liminality, Communitas and Anti-StructureNew Social Movements See Community ActionPersonal Communities See Setting the Record Straight, Social Network Analysis and Virtual CommunitiesThe Symbolic Construction of CommunityCommunity as IdeologyCommunitarianismCommunity Politics See Political Community and Community ActionImaginary CommunitiesNostalgiaThe ′Dark Side′ of CommunityUtopia See Imaginary CommunitiesCommunity as Policy and PracticeCommunity ActionCommunity DevelopmentCommunity PartnershipsCommunity Policy See Political CommunityCommunity Practice See Community Development, Community Youth Work, Leisure and Its CommunitiesCommunity RegenerationCommunity Youth WorkLeisure and Its CommunitiesPolitical CommunitySocial Capital