Against the Romance of Community.
Title:
Against the Romance of Community.
Author:
Joseph, Miranda.
ISBN:
9780816692774
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (269 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Introduction: Persistent Critique, Relentless Return -- ONE: The Supplementarity of Community with Capital -- or, A Critique of the Romantic Discourse of Community -- TWO: The Performance of Production and Consumption -- THREE: Not for Profit? Voluntary Associations and the Willing Subject -- FOUR: The Perfect Moment: Gays, Christians, and the National Endowment for the Arts -- FIVE: Kinship and the Culturalization of Capitalism: The Discourse of Global/Localization -- Epilogue: What Is to Be Done? -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
Miranda Joseph explores sites where the ideal of community relentlessly recurs, from debates over art and culture in the popular media, to the discourses and practices of nonprofit and nongovernmental organizations. She shows how community legitimates the social hierarchies of gender, race, nation, and sexuality that capitalism implicitly requires. Exposing the complicity of social practices, identities, and communities with capitalism, this truly constructive critique opens the possibility of genuine alliances across such differences.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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