9780816637966-0816637962-Against the Romance of Community

Against the Romance of Community

ISBN-13: 9780816637966
ISBN-10: 0816637962
Edition: First Edition
Author: Miranda Joseph
Publication date: 2002
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Format: Paperback 272 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780816637966
ISBN-10: 0816637962
Edition: First Edition
Author: Miranda Joseph
Publication date: 2002
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Format: Paperback 272 pages

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Against the Romance of Community (ISBN-13: 9780816637966 and ISBN-10: 0816637962), written by authors Miranda Joseph, was published by Univ Of Minnesota Press in 2002. With an overall rating of 3.7 stars, it's a notable title among other Social Sciences (Sociology) books. You can easily purchase or rent Against the Romance of Community (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Social Sciences books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $1.1.

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Community is almost always invoked as an unequivocal good, an indicator of a high quality of life, caring, selflessness, belonging. Into this common portrayal, Against the Romance of Community introduces an uncommon note of caution, a penetrating, sorely needed sense of what, precisely, we are doing when we call upon this ideal.

Miranda Joseph explores sites where the ideal of community relentlessly recurs, from debates over art and culture in the popular media, to the discourses and practices of nonprofit and nongovernmental organizations, to contemporary narratives of economic transformation or "globalization." She shows how community legitimates the social hierarchies of gender, race, nation, and sexuality that capitalism implicitly requires.

Joseph argues that social formations, including community, are constituted through the performativity of production. This strategy makes it possible to understand connections between identities and communities that would otherwise seem to be disconnected: gay consumers in the U.S. and Mexican maquiladora workers; Christian right "family values" and Asian "crony capitalism." Exposing the complicity of social practices, identities, and communities with capitalism, this truly constructive critique opens the possibility of genuine alliances across such differences.

Miranda Joseph is associate professor of women's studies at the University of Arizona.

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