Top-down Community Building and the Politics of Inclusion

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science, International, Social Science, Sociology
Cover of the book Top-down Community Building and the Politics of Inclusion by Fenneke Wekker, Springer International Publishing
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Fenneke Wekker ISBN: 9783319539645
Publisher: Springer International Publishing Publication: May 24, 2017
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Language: English
Author: Fenneke Wekker
ISBN: 9783319539645
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Publication: May 24, 2017
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Language: English

This book explores mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion involved in practices of community building through an ethnographic study of a neighborhood restaurant in Amsterdam. It presents important insights into the advantages and empowering effects of professional, top down community building in a disadvantaged neighborhood, as well as its tensions and contradictory outcomes. The core argument of the study is that, in spite of the abserved restaurant's well-intended and well-organized attempts to create an inclusive and heterogeneous local community, it instead established one both exclusive and homogeneous. Through a set of community building practices and discourses of "deprivation" and "ethnic and racial otherness," the construction of collective fear for ethnic and racial “others" was indirectly facilitated among the white, working class visitors. As a result, insurmountable barriers were erected for non-white and non-native Dutch residents to become part of the local community. This project speaks to social scientists as well as social workers, governments, and policy-makers concerned with issues of social cohesion, informal networks, and professional community building in disadvantaged urban settings.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

This book explores mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion involved in practices of community building through an ethnographic study of a neighborhood restaurant in Amsterdam. It presents important insights into the advantages and empowering effects of professional, top down community building in a disadvantaged neighborhood, as well as its tensions and contradictory outcomes. The core argument of the study is that, in spite of the abserved restaurant's well-intended and well-organized attempts to create an inclusive and heterogeneous local community, it instead established one both exclusive and homogeneous. Through a set of community building practices and discourses of "deprivation" and "ethnic and racial otherness," the construction of collective fear for ethnic and racial “others" was indirectly facilitated among the white, working class visitors. As a result, insurmountable barriers were erected for non-white and non-native Dutch residents to become part of the local community. This project speaks to social scientists as well as social workers, governments, and policy-makers concerned with issues of social cohesion, informal networks, and professional community building in disadvantaged urban settings.

More books from Springer International Publishing

Cover of the book Counterfeiting and Piracy by Fenneke Wekker
Cover of the book Advances in Operations Research Education by Fenneke Wekker
Cover of the book Pseudo-Populations by Fenneke Wekker
Cover of the book PET/MRI in Oncology by Fenneke Wekker
Cover of the book Large-scale Production of Paper-based Li-ion Cells by Fenneke Wekker
Cover of the book Multiplicative Ideal Theory and Factorization Theory by Fenneke Wekker
Cover of the book Dynamic Perspectives on Managerial Decision Making by Fenneke Wekker
Cover of the book Software Technologies by Fenneke Wekker
Cover of the book Metal Cutting Theory by Fenneke Wekker
Cover of the book The NATO Committee on the Challenges of Modern Society, 1969–1975 by Fenneke Wekker
Cover of the book Dynamic Behavior of Materials, Volume 1 by Fenneke Wekker
Cover of the book Myopericardial Diseases by Fenneke Wekker
Cover of the book Building Energy Performance Assessment in Southern Europe by Fenneke Wekker
Cover of the book Quantum Measurement by Fenneke Wekker
Cover of the book Towards Green Campus Operations by Fenneke Wekker
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy