Community

Schafer, Tyler S.

doi:10.1002/9781118568446.eurs0444

The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies 2019

DOI: 10.1002/9781118568446.eurs0444

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Community

Tyler S. Schafer¹

Abstract: Community is a concept infamous for its ambiguity. The entry examines the career of the concept, tracing the contours of major debates over its meaning and existence, and describes some areas of consensus. The emphasis in this entry is on face‐to‐face community in urban settings, but there is also a brief discussion of virtual communities.

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Generational Communities: Student Activism and the Politics of Becoming in South Asia

Martelli¹,

Garalytė²

2019

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The wide resonance of the aphorism, "from shadows to the stars," closing the 2016 suicide letter of lower caste student activist Rohith Vemula 1 suggests broken hopes for South Asian educated youth. It points at the tragic obstacles to political change and social upliftment experienced by many young people, reflecting a characteristic desire for individual and collective change. The astounding protests that ensued from Rohith's suicide in India are now contributing to the revival of scholarly interest in the formation of political attitudes among educated youth, subjecting the question of students' socialization into politics to academic scrutiny. Indeed, amidst the uncertain social, economic and political promises of the South Asian educational bulge, 2 contemporary politics in university spaces in South Asia has the potential of shaping youth as idiosyncratic generations. They are characterized not only by their aspirations for a better future, but also by their ability to experience collectively, yet in their own way, major political and social events. 2Making sense of this research agenda revival is core to this special issue's enquiry, which runs through ethnographic and historical insights of eight contributions, covering youths' experiments with politics in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan. This introduction questions the relevance of student politics as an object of inquiry by asking whether it truly constitutes a field that is autonomous from wider organized politics. By interpreting student politics as political becoming, this collection of articles indicates that everyday campus-based activism is a potent vehicle for the (re)production of contemporary South Asian polity. Interrogations over the meaning of this "(re)"sprinkle the issue, as authors debate how student politics, understood as an experimental learning process of politics within a given educational space (Loader, Vromen and Xenos 2014) both produces and reproduces political imaginaries, cultural tropes and social hierarchies. While party politics is not always central in the conduct Generational Communities: Student Activism and the Politics of Becoming in So...

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Generational Communities: Student Activism and the Politics of Becoming in South Asia

Martelli¹,

Garalytė²

2019

samaj

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