Rebuilding Community in America
Author: Ken E. Norwood
Publisher:
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 438
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Rebuilding Community
Author: Shenila Khoja-Moolji
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2023
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 0197642020
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOver the course of the twentieth century, Shia Ismaili Muslim communities were repeatedly displaced. How, in the aftermath of these displacements, did they remake their communities? Shenila Khoja-Moolji highlights women's critical role in this rebuilding process and breaks new ground by writing women into modern Ismaili history. Rebuilding Community tells the story of how Ismaili Muslim women who fled East Pakistan and East Africa in the 1970s recreated religious community (jamat) in North America. Drawing on oral histories, fieldwork, and memory texts, Khoja-Moolji illuminates the placemaking activities through which Ismaili women reproduce bonds of spiritual kinship: from cooking for congregants on feast days and looking after sick coreligionists to engaging in memory work through miracle stories and cookbooks. Khoja-Moolji situates these activities within the framework of ethical norms that more broadly define and sustain the Ismaili sociality. Jamat--and religious community more generally--is not a given, but an ethical relation that is maintained daily and intergenerationally through everyday acts of care. By emphasizing women's care work in producing relationality and repairing trauma, Khoja-Moolji disrupts the conventional articulation of displaced people as dependent subjects.
Rebuilding Communities in an Age of Individualism
Author: Paul Hopper
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-05
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 1351906259
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs modern societies become increasingly individualistic, this fascinating book examines how we can maintain and revive local communities and community life. It demonstrates how the major developments and processes of our time, notably globalization, post-industrialism and de-traditionalization, contribute to this individualism to the detriment of community life. The author examines how community is a necessary and important component of human life and discusses possible ways in which to arrest its decline. In this regard, strategies geared to fostering trust and social capital are outlined as the basis for reinvigorating community life. The volume provides a coherent and distinct analysis of community as well as offering concrete policy prescriptions to counter the excessive individualism of our times. In both the nature and scope of its analysis, it offers a unique contribution to an extremely important issue in the contemporary period, one that increasingly preoccupies politicians, academics and ordinary citizens.
Rebuilding Community
Author: Joan Smith
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2001-10-10
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 1403919879
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOur poorest urban neighbourhoods experience economic and social difficulties that uniquely affect the lives of those who live there. This volume examines the policies and initiatives now underway on both sides of the Atlantic to revitalize those areas. With contributors from the US, France and the UK the volume explains the nature of specific community building programmes and explores critical issues such as the role of partnerships and the importance of race and gender in urban regeneration.
Rebuilding Community Solidarity and Pluralism
Author: Donald G. Reid
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2024-06-03
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 1040027881
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book critiques the traditional practice of community organization, change and development, and concludes that the present practice of Community Development (CD) and Social Policy and Planning (SP&P) is no longer capable of meeting the current challenges at the local or national level. The aim of this book is to identify the underlying motivations for the individual aggressive and collective antisocial behaviour that we witness in democratic society today and offer changes to the orientation of the current community change practice in order to build a system that can better address the present needs of society. This work identifies the factors that are moving society toward extremism and authoritarianism focusing particularly on the community level. Given the turmoil in communities that is degrading democracy and leading to authoritarianism today, the issues of Community Solidarity and Pluralism (CS&P) must be attended to before the traditional political, economic, and material issues that are regularly addressed by CD and SP&P practice can become the focus for change and development once again. This book will have widespread appeal to academics, researchers, and postgraduate students throughout the social sciences including sociology, social work, political science, economics, philosophy, environmental studies, and international and community development studies. It is also intended for the general reader who is interested in understanding the authoritarian forces that are attempting to infiltrate the democratic process.
Rebuilding Community Connections - Mediation and Restorative Justice in Europe
Author: Ivo Aertsen
Publisher: Council of Europe
Published: 2004-01-01
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9789287154514
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPublished as part of the integrated project "Responses to violence in everyday life in a democratic society"
Rebuilding Community
Author: Joan Smith
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2001-10-10
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9780333747650
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOur poorest urban neighbourhoods experience economic and social difficulties that uniquely affect the lives of those who live there. This volume examines the policies and initiatives now underway on both sides of the Atlantic to revitalize those areas. With contributors from the US, France and the UK the volume explains the nature of specific community building programmes and explores critical issues such as the role of partnerships and the importance of race and gender in urban regeneration.
Rebuilding a Post-exilic Community
Author: Chingboi Guite Phaipi
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2019-09-19
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 153266480X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book of Ezra is generally known for its negative and exclusivist attitude towards the other. Others are the cause of dread in one part of the book, and in another part they are adversarial. Furthermore, Ezra commands that foreign wives and their children be sent away. Yet the book of Ezra also features an exceptional account of welcome. In Rebuilding a Post-exilic Community, Chingboi Guite Phaipi examines what drives negative attitudes toward the other, and argues that beneath the presence of different attitudes toward the other within the book of Ezra lies a coherent foundation. That is, negative attitudes toward others make sense in light of the community’s strong self-perception in the book of Ezra.
Race, Class, Power, and Organizing in East Baltimore
Author: Marisela B. Gomez
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0739175009
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing the East Baltimore community as an example this book examines historical and current rebuilding practices in abandoned communities in urban America, their structural causes, and outcomes on the health of the place and the people. The role of community organizing as a necessary means to assure benefit during and after resident displacement, its challenges and successes, are described in the context of a current eminent domain-driven rebuilding project in East Baltimore.
Hurricane Andrew, the Public Schools, and the Rebuilding of Community
Author: Eugene F. Provenzo Jr.
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1995-07-01
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9780791424827
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHurricane Andrew struck South Florida early on Monday morning, August 24, 1992. Widely described as the worst natural disaster in modern U.S. history, the storm left 38 people dead in South Florida, 80,000 homes destroyed, and damage estimates of at least $20 billion. The area devastated by the hurricane was approximately three times the size of Manhattan. Almost 250,000 people were left homeless by Andrewroughly the population of the entire city of Las Vegas, Nevada. Garbage generated by the storm in a single night was equal to the projected landfill for Dade County for the next thirty years.
