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 The Future of Community: Reports of a Death Greatly Exaggerated

The Future of Community: Reports of a Death Greatly Exaggerated
  • Author: edited by Dave Clements, Alastair Donald, Martin Earnshaw, and Austin Williams
  • Publisher: Pluto Press
  • ISBN-10: 0745328164
  • ISBN-13: 978-0745328164

What makes community?

While it is perfectly apt to question the state’s capacity to perform these functions on citizens’ behalf (and the propriety of the state fulfilling this role), it is far from obvious, as the book repeatedly asserts, that ‘left to their own devices’ citizens will spontaneously recreate communities.

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