Mythopolitics of “community”: an unstable but necessary category

What is it about?

It is important to critique taken-for-granted concepts like community in disaster research and management, since such concepts are often romantic, imprecise, and laden with unexamined assumptions. However, in our research with Spanish-speaking community leaders in San José, California, and rural Indigenous communities in Alaska, we find that the community concept is an important, symbolic, and meaningful tool for collective organizing for social and environmental justice.

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