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The Symbolic Construction of Community

Tony Blackshaw
- pp 125-130
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The article was published on 2010-01-01. It has received 944 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Symbolic communication & The Symbolic.

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Community, the very idea!: perspectives of participants in a demand-side community energy project

TL;DR: The authors examined the meanings of community and community action from the perspective of participants in a demand-side community energy project and found that the notions of a local and non-commercial project were widely valued by participants; in particular, these rendered the project more authentic and trustworthy.
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Project siting and the concept of community

TL;DR: In this paper, the siting of unwanted projects always involves conflict between developers and community interests, and the notion of community has been under-theorised in the sitting literature.
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"Oh! What a tangled web we weave": Englishness, communicative leisure, identity work and the cultural web of the English folk morris dance scene

TL;DR: In this article, the relationship between Englishness and the English folk morris dance scene considering how the latter draws from and reinforces the former is considered within the context of the cultural web, a tool more often applied to business management but linked to a sociological viewpoint here.

Culture, place and identity in a mobile community

TL;DR: This article analyzed three years of ethnographic field notes and 44 interviews with individuals who attend the yearly arts event Burning Man in the Nevada desert and found that regardless of the degree of spatial mobility, individuals in the extended global Burning Man community share common values, take part in relationships of mutual support, and have greater group commitments as a community.
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Compassion and purity: the ethics and boundary-making of Christian evangelicals

TL;DR: In this article, the ethical attitude of Christian evangelicals in a church in Britain and how it affects boundary-making of their community is explored, and it is found that evangelicals in the case study seek to be accepting o...
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Ethnography for the Internet: Embedded, Embodied and Everyday

TL;DR: This book presents an overview of the challenges faced by ethnographers who wish to understand activities that involve the internet, and explores both methodological principles and practical strategies for coming to terms with the definition of field sites, the connections between online and offline and the changing nature of embodied experience.
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Designing for learning in an open world

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Mingling, observing, and lingering: everyday public spaces and their implications for well-being and social relations

TL;DR: Different users of public spaces attain a sense of well- being for different reasons: the paper calls for policy approaches in which the social and therapeutic properties of a range of everyday spaces are more widely recognised and nurtured.
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The recognition and misrecognition of community heritage

TL;DR: This article revisited the notion of community within the field of heritage, examining the varied ways in which tensions between different groups and their aspirations arise and are mediated, and pointed out the conceptual disjunction that exists between a range of popular, political and academic attempts to define and negotiate memory, place, identity and cultural expression.
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What Schools Need to Know About Fostering School Belonging: a Meta-analysis

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used meta-analysis of individual and social level factors that influence school belonging. And the average association between each of these factors and school belonging was meta-analytically examined across 51 studies (N = 67,378).