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Transcommunality: From The Politics Of Conversion
John Brown Childs
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Description for Transcommunality: From The Politics Of Conversion
paperback. In an age of fractured identities and a world that is moving toward a global community, this book offers a way of imagining the world where community and individual identity may not only coexist, but also depend upon the other to the benefit of both. Num Pages: 248 pages, 2 illustrations. BIC Classification: JFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5334 x 3556 x 16. Weight in Grams: 290.
In this original and collaborative creation, John Brown-Childs offers unique insights into some of the central problems facing communities, social movements, and people who desire social change: how does one build a movement that can account for race, class and gender, and yet still operate across all of these lines? How can communities sustain themselves in truly social ways? And perhaps most important, how can we take the importance of community into account without forgoing the important distinctions that we all ascribe to ourselves as individuals?Borrowing from the Haudenosaunee, or Iroquois federation, Brown-Childs offers a way of thinking about communities ... Read more
In this original and collaborative creation, John Brown-Childs offers unique insights into some of the central problems facing communities, social movements, and people who desire social change: how does one build a movement that can account for race, class and gender, and yet still operate across all of these lines? How can communities sustain themselves in truly social ways? And perhaps most important, how can we take the importance of community into account without forgoing the important distinctions that we all ascribe to ourselves as individuals?Borrowing from the Haudenosaunee, or Iroquois federation, Brown-Childs offers a way of thinking about communities ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Philadelphia PA, United States
ISBN
9781592130054
SKU
V9781592130054
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About John Brown Childs
John Brown Childs is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and isauthor of two previous books, including Leadership, Conflict, and Cooperation in Afro-American Social Thought (Temple).Contributors: With commentaries by Bettina Aptheker, Jeremy Brecher, John Brewer, Guillermo Delgado-P, Arif Dirlik, David Welchman Gegeo, Herman Gray, Sofia Quintero, Renate Holub, Andrea Smith, Stefano Varese, and Hayden White.
Reviews for Transcommunality: From The Politics Of Conversion
"This is a bold and provocative book. It is visionary, and he has clearly articulated that vision of how groups, communities and nations might engage each other, holding on to their differences and yet respecting those of others. Childs does a fine job of laying out the sketches of such a set of relationships. His prose is elegant and contains ... Read more