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Community Matters: Reflections from the Field

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This article asserts that community matters, not least because of the continued importance of community demonstrated by residents of a post-fordist resort town in North Australia. Far from being an outdated concept, confined to stable rural villages, (as often argued in the literature), even this extremely transient population profess a strong desire to find and maintain ‘community’. A sense of community is constructed through narratives of place and lifestyle to create an inclusive collective identity. However, my fieldwork demonstrated that the ideal remains elusive. Access to social networks is unequal and the norms of community fall short of reciprocity or duty, making it a ‘community without obligation’.

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  • Kirsty Sherlock, 2002. "Community Matters: Reflections from the Field," Sociological Research Online, , vol. 7(2), pages 40-55, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:socres:v:7:y:2002:i:2:p:40-55
    DOI: 10.5153/sro.720
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