TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2017//
TI  - The politics of community: togetherness, transition and post-politics
JO  - Environment and planning A
A1  - Aiken, Gerald Taylor
SP  - 2383
EP  - 2401
VL  - 49
IS  - 10
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0308-518X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0308518X17724443
ID  - ref1
ER  -