Community Cohesion in Crisis?: New Dimensions of Diversity by John Flint, David Robinson

By John Flint, David Robinson

There's an alleged challenge of harmony within the united kingdom, manifested in debates approximately id and 'Britishness', the breakdown of social connections alongside the fault traces of geography, ethnicity, religion, source of revenue and age, and the delicate dating among citizen and country. This ebook examines how those new dimensions of range and distinction, so frequently debated within the nationwide context, are rising on the neighbourhood point. participants from a number of disciplinary backgrounds severely investigate, and transcend the boundaries of, modern coverage discourses on 'community unity' to discover the dynamics of range and team spirit inside of neighbourhoods and to spot new dimensions of disconnection among and inside neighbourhoods. The chapters supply theoretically expert evaluations of the coverage responses of public, inner most, voluntary and group enterprises and current a wealth of recent empirical examine proof concerning the dynamics of unity in united kingdom neighbourhoods.Topics coated comprise new immigration, faith and social capital, religion faculties, labour and housing marketplace disconnections, neighbourhood territoriality, info know-how and neighbourhood building, and gated groups. "Community unity' in main issue" can be of curiosity to teachers, coverage makers, practitioners and scholars within the fields of human and concrete geography, city reports, sociology, politics, governance, social coverage, criminology and housing reviews.

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However, few households appeared able to realise this aspiration, and the minority ethnic cluster was proving a persistent feature of the residential landscape. Exploring this issue further, racialised notions of space, associated with the fear or experience of racism, emerged as a critical factor in explaining the relatively slow process of dispersal and 26 Community cohesion and the politics of communitarianism the virtual exclusion of the population from the small towns, villages and hamlets within the district.

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