@article{ref1,
title="The politics of community: togetherness, transition and post-politics",
journal="Environment and planning A",
year="2017",
author="Aiken, Gerald Taylor",
volume="49",
number="10",
pages="2383-2401",
abstract="This article excavates the role, function and practices of community within Transition, a grassroots environmentalist movement. It does so to pursue a quest for understanding if, how, and in what ways, community-based environmental movements are 'political'. When community-based low carbon initiatives are discussed academically, they can be critiqued; this critique is in turn often based on the perception that the crucial community aspect tends to be a settled, static and reified condition of (human) togetherness. However community--both in theory and practice--is not destined to be so. This article collects and evaluates data from two large research projects on the Transition movement. It takes this ethnographic evidence together with lessons from post-political theory, to outline the capacious, diverse and progressive forms of community that exists within the movement. Doing so, it argues against a blanket post-political diagnosis of community transitions, and opens up, yet again, the consequences of the perceptions and prejudices one has about community are more than mere theoretical posturing.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0308-518X",
doi="10.1177/0308518X17724443",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0308518X17724443"
}