Cultures, Communities, Identities

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Introduction

   • Marjorie Mayo

   Pages 1-12

3. Culture and Cultural Strategies in the Context of ‘Global’ Restructuring

   • Marjorie Mayo

   Pages 13-35

4. Communities, Identities and Social Movements

   • Marjorie Mayo

   Pages 36-61

5. ‘Race’, Racism, Anti-Racism and Identities

   • Marjorie Mayo

   Pages 62-86

6. Community, Culture and Cultural Strategies: Alternative Approaches in Community Development

   • Marjorie Mayo

   Pages 87-110

7. Cultural Strategies and Community Economic Development

   • Marjorie Mayo

   Pages 111-132

8. Nationality, Ethnicity, Identity and Displacement: Cultural Strategies to Find Ways of Feeling ‘at Home’

   • Marjorie Mayo

   Pages 133-154

9. Cultural Strategies for Health and Well-being

   • Marjorie Mayo

   Pages 155-177

10. Wider Strategies: ‘Globalisation from Below’?

    • Marjorie Mayo

    Pages 178-193

11. Back Matter

    Pages 194-217

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Cultures, Communities, Identities explores a wide range of cultural strategies to promote participation and empowerment in both First and Third World settings. The book starts by analysing contemporary debates on cultures, communities and identities, in the context of globalization. This sets the framework for the discussion of cultural strategies to combat social exclusion and to promote community participation in transformative agendas for local economic and social development. The final chapter focuses upon the use of cultural strategies and new technologies across national boundaries, at the global level.

• community
• empowerment
• globalization
• identity
• Nation
• nationality
• participation

• Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK

  Marjorie Mayo

MARJORIE MAYO is a Reader in Community Development at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Her previous publications include Communities and Caring: The Mixed Economy of Welfare (1994), Imagining Tomorrow: Adult Education for Transformation (1997) and with Gary Craig Community Empowerment: A Reader in Participation and Development (1995).

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