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Top-down community building and the politics of inclusion / Fenneke Wekker.

Wekker, Fenneke, author.
2017
HM683
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Title
Top-down community building and the politics of inclusion / Fenneke Wekker.
Author
Wekker, Fenneke, author.
ISBN
9783319539645 (electronic book)
3319539647 (electronic book)
9783319539638
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
Copyright
©2017
Language
English
Description
xiv, 261 pages ; 23 cm.
1 online resource.
Call Number
HM683
Dewey Decimal Classification
302
Summary
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Series
Europe in transition (New York, N.Y.)
Palgrave pivot.
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Preface; Contents; Chapter 1 Introduction: Being the Other on the Other Side; Abstract ; Methods; References; Chapter 2 Community Building and Urban Life; Abstract ; Problematizing Community Building; State-Supported Community Building in Amsterdam; References; Chapter 3 Community Building Practices; Abstract ; The Dinner Procedure; The Table Setting; Gender and Sexuality; Changing Tables; Organized Activities; References; Chapter 4 Discourses of Deprivation and Ethnic and Racial Otherness; Abstract ; Discourse of Deprivation; Discourse of Ethnic and Racial Otherness

Passing on the Discourse of Deprivation to 'Ethnic and Racial Others'The Construction of Fear; References; Chapter 5 Conclusion; Abstract ; Top Down Interventions and Their Pitfalls; Community Building as Top Down Intervention; Ethnic Leveraging as Act of Resistance; References; References; Index.

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