Includes bibliographical references.

Preliminary material / Stefan Herbrechter and Michael Higgins -- INTRODUCTION – RETURNING (TO) COMMUNITIES / Stefan Herbrechter and Michael Higgins -- COMPREHENDING COMMUNITY / Richard Tyler -- THEORISING EUROPE FROM THE OTHER SHORE: DERRIDA, COMMUNITY AND THE EXEMPLARITY OF EUROPE / Ivan Callus -- HETEROGENEOUS COMMUNITY: BEYOND NEW TRADITIONALISM / Thomas A. Lewis -- STANLEY FISH MEET JEAN-PAUL SARTRE: COMMUNITY, DIFFERENCE AND MULTICULTURAL THEORY / Lou Caton -- THOMAS KUHN’S CONSTRUCTION OF SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITIES / Ipek Demir -- JEAN-LUC NANCY: AN ATTEMPT TO REDUCE COMMUNITY TO ONTOLOGY / Oleg Domanov -- WEBS AS PEGS / David Bell -- MULTILINGUALISM AND ITS DISCONTENTS: HETERO-LINGUAL COLLECTIVITY AND THE CRITIQUE OF HOMO-LINGUAL COMMUNITIES / Antony Adolf -- CULTURAL PROPERTY AND COLLECTIVE IDENTITY / Elizabeth Coleman -- COMMUNITY IN RESOURCES, TRADITION IN KNOWLEDGE / Johanna Gibson -- BRITAIN’S RAILWAY ENGINEERS: THE FIRST VIRTUAL GLOBAL COMMUNITY? / Di Drummond -- “NAZI FANS” BUT NOT NEO-NAZIS THE CULTURAL COMMUNITY OF “WWII FANATICS” / Eva Kingsepp -- PUTTING THE CULT BACK INTO COMMUNITY / Jackie Mcmillan -- MEDIATED SELF-REPRESENTATIONS: “ORDINARY PEOPLE” IN “COMMUNITIES” / Nancy Thumim -- COMMUNITY AND COMMUNITIES IN BRITISH TELEVISION ADS / Renée Dickason -- THE BUBBLE OF DIASPORA: PERPETUATING “US” THROUGH SACRED IDEALS / Bano Murtuja -- THE GAY “COMMUNITY:” STABILISING POLITICAL CONSTRUCT OR OPPRESSIVE REGULATORY REGIME? / Tammy Grimshaw -- CULL MAFF! THE MOBILISATION OF THE FARMING COMMUNITY DURING THE 2001 FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE (FMD) EPIDEMIC / Sam Hillyard -- CONFLICT AND COHESION: OFFICIAL CONSTRUCTIONS OF “COMMUNITY” AROUND THE 2001 RIOTS IN BRITAIN / Paul Bagguley and Yasmin Hussain -- ABORIGINAL POLITICS, SELF-DETERMINATION AND THE RHETORIC OF COMMUNITY / George Morgan -- BUILDING HEAVENS, HAVENS OR HELLS? COMMUNITY AS POLICY IN THE CONTEXT OF THE POST-WASHINGTON CONSENSUS / Marjorie Mayo -- CONTRIBUTORS / Stefan Herbrechter and Michael Higgins.

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Returning (to) Communities offers an innovative collection of examples and case studies into what has become a hotly disputed topic. The chapters present a wide-ranging series of interventions into the new debates over the concepts and practices of “community” and the communal. For this book, scholars have been gathered from across Europe and Australia as well as from the United States, and several contributors are involved in community practice. Returning (to) Communities is essential reading to researchers and students in social policy, sociology, ethnic studies, cultural analysis, media studies, and across all of the social sciences and humanities concerned with the communal and the collective.