Towards Understanding Community

1. People and Places: An Introduction Towards Understanding Community
Christopher J. Clay, Mary Madden, Laura Potts

2. The Signature Quilt
Roxy Walsh

Part I. Locating Community

3. Locating Community: An Introduction
Christopher J. Clay

4. The Politics of Community: New Labour and the Eclipse of Society
Simon Parker

5. Learning Communities and Tertiary Education
Stuart Billingham

6. ‘For All the Women Out There’: Community and the Ethics of Care in the Marketing of a Breast Cancer Fundraising Event
Julia D’Aloisio

7. Contingent Communities: British Social Policy and the Invention of Refugee Communities
Lynnette Kelly

Part II. Justice Within and Between Communities

8. Justice Within and Between Communities
Mary Madden

9. Globalization, Multiple Threats and the Weakness of International Institutions: A Community-Centred Response
Simon Sweeney

10. The Ideal of a Sustainable Community, 2006
Kristina Peat

11. Community Informatics: Building Civil Society in the Information Age?
Leigh Keeble

12. Working with the Community: Research and Action
Gayle Letherby, Geraldine Brady, Geraldine Brown

13. impetus: A Movement Towards Shared Ethical Values and Human Rights
Adam Short

Part III. Building Healthy Communities

14. Building Healthy Communities
Laura Potts

15. How Communities Can Use Geographical Information Systems
Steve Cinderby

16. Community Capacity Building, Community Development and Health: A Case Study of ‘Health Issues in the Community’
Richard Phillips

17. A Community of Expertise: Positioning the UK Environmental Breast Cancer Movement
Laura Potts

18. Towards Understanding Community: Developing Participatory Working
Pat Turton

Keywords: Social Sciences, Politics of the Welfare State, Demography, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Social Theory, Sociology, general