Top-Down Community Building and the Politics of Inclusion

by Fenneke Wekker

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319852868
• ISBN13: 9783319852867
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 93 Pages
• Weight: 0.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.8" x 8.3"