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Dynamics of Community Formation

Developing Identity and Notions of Home

Palgrave Macmillan

Editors:

  1. Robert W. Compton, Jr.

    1. College at Oneonta, The State University of New York, Oneonta, USA

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  2. Ho Hon Leung

    1. College at Oneonta, The State University of New York, Oneonta, USA

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  3. Yaser Robles

    1. Choate Rosemary Hall, Wallingford, USA

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  • Discusses the creation, maintenance, change, and destruction of what communities consider and envision as home

  • Focuses on the social, historical, and economic context of community as a type of home

  • Examines the role of identity in the creation, branding, and transformation of the sense of home

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  4. Collaboration, Belonging, and National Identity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 159-159
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    2. Constructing Home and Family in Accra

      • Kathleen O’Mara
      Pages 161-186

    3. Home Formation and the Use of Violence in Zimbabwe

      • Robert W. Compton Jr.
      Pages 187-210

    4. Building Consensus? Russian Nationalism as Social Cohesion and Division

      • Nataliia Kasianenko, Robert Ostergard Jr.
      Pages 211-233

  5. Epilogue

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 235-235
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    2. Transforming Catacombs and the City of Paris: The Spatial Relationship Between the Home for the Living and the Dead

      • Raymond Lau, Mariela Bellido, Alexandra Reichert, Ellen Y. C. Leung
      Pages 237-248

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 249-253
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About this book

This interdisciplinary work discusses the construction, maintenance, evolution, and destruction of home and community spaces, which are central to the development of social cohesion. By examining how people throughout the world form different communities to establish a sense of home, the volume surveys the formation of identity within the context of rapid development, global and domestic neoliberal and political governmental policies, and various societal pressures. The themes of cooperation, conflict, inclusion, exclusion, and balance require negotiation between different actors (e.g., the state, professional developers, social activists, and residents) as homes and communities develop. 

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Editors and Affiliations

  • College at Oneonta, The State University of New York, Oneonta, USA

    Robert W. Compton, Jr., Ho Hon Leung

  • Choate Rosemary Hall, Wallingford, USA

    Yaser Robles

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About the editors

Robert W. Compton, Jr. is Professor of Africana and Latino Studies and Political Science at SUNY, College at Oneonta, USA. His research interests include political development and international political economy of Southern Africa and East Asia.  


Ho Hon Leung is Professor of Sociology at SUNY, College at Oneonta, USA.  His research interests include ethnic relations, immigration, urban studies, architectural sociology, and comparative aging. He is also Director and Co-founder of 4C5M Studio.


Yaser Robles is a faculty member in the History, Philosophy, Religion and Social Sciences Department (HPRSS) at Choate Rosemary Hall, USA. His research interests include colonial Latin America, Latin American and Caribbean Diasporas to the United States, and Afro-Latin American cultures.   




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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Dynamics of Community Formation

  • Book Subtitle: Developing Identity and Notions of Home

  • Editors: Robert W. Compton, Jr., Ho Hon Leung, Yaser Robles

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53359-3

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-53358-6Published: 18 October 2017

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-53359-3Published: 13 October 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 253

  • Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Urban Studies/Sociology, Social Anthropology, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Ethnography, Cultural Studies

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