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Diverse Communities: The Problem with Social Capital
Barbara Arneil (University of British Columbia, Vancouver)
Diverse Communities is a critique of Robert Putnam's social capital
thesis, re-examined from the perspective of women and cultural
minorities in America over the last century. Barbara Arneil argues
that the idyllic communities of the past were less positive than
Putnam envisages and that the current 'collapse' in participation is
better understood as change rather than decline. Arneil suggests that
the changes in American civil society in the last half-century are the
result not so much of generational change or television as of the
unleasing of powerful economic, social and cultural forces that,
despite leading to division and distrust within American society, also
contributed to greater justice for women and cultural minorities. She
concludes by proposing that the lessons learned from this fuller
history of American civil society provide the normative foundation to
enumerate the principles of justice by which diverse communities might
be governed in the twenty-first century.
Cambridge University Press
http://www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521673909&ss
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