Rethinking Community Research Inter-relationality, Communal Being an
This book sheds new light on the complex inter-relations that make up class, power, local history and space. It turns community thinking on its head by understanding community not as an object but as a relational process with sociality at its core. B
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Rethinking Community Research
David Studdert • Valerie Walkerdine
Rethinking Community Research Inter-relationality, Communal Being and Commonality
David Studdert School of Social Sciences Cardiff University Cardiff, United Kingdom
Valerie Walkerdine School of Social Sciences Cardiff University Cardiff, United Kingdom
ISBN 978-1-137-51452-3 ISBN 978-1-137-51453-0 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-51453-0
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We dedicate this book absolutely and wholeheartedly to the wonderful people of Market-Town who exemplified communal being-ness and held out for us the possibility of experiencing and understanding just what it might mean. To their generosity and kindness. There are particular people who helped us a great deal and whom we cannot name because of our need to protect the anonymity of the town, but they know who they are and we thank them from the bottom of our hearts.
Acknowledgements
We must acknowledge first and foremost the people of Market-Town to whom we have dedicated the book. Many people from that town were part of the projects that we organised. These projects were funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council Connected Communities (AHRC) and Cultural Value programmes, and we gratefully acknowledge their support for the following grants, out of which this book grew. For some of those grants, other co-investigators were an essential part of the project teams: Graham Crow, Niamh Moore, Ian Hargreaves and Sally Mackey. For their
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