GGR327H1 Lecture Notes - Iris Marion Young, New Urbanism, Social Exclusion
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New urbanism accepts the ideal of community" as it philosophical foundation. Community- an alternative to the isolation check powerpoint. A) a web of affect-laden relationships among individuals. B) commitment to a set of shared values, norms, and meanings and a shared history and identity. An idealized, often romanticized, imagined space of kinship and unity between otherwise heterogeneous groups. A political scale of shared commitments to morals, norms, and the public good. The discursive invocation of community has truth-effects (foucault): its use as a political frame has impacts on lives, landscapes and livelihoods. Iris marion young (1990) reveals the violence of community". That you always conclude and exclude some people and always defining who can be apart and who can"t. It is used to signify a whole , to efface internal differences, to create boundaries between self and other, and to construct an imagined sharing of ways of being in the world.
