Searching for Community: Representation, Power and Action on an Urban Estate

by Jeremy Brent

At a time when politicians place increasing importance on the role of 'community' in overcoming social problems, 'Searching for community' asks the vital question 'what is community, anyway?'. Is it an answer to social problems or an illusion to be dismissed? This insightful book is written from the perspective of the late Jeremy Brent's thirty year involvement as a youth worker in Southmead, a housing estate in Bristol and a place where discourses...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1847423248
• ISBN13: 9781847423245
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Policy Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.3"