Alastair,
I think you will find the following useful in this respect:
Alleyne, B (2002) An idea of community and its discontents: towards a more
reflexive sense of belonging in multicultural Britain. Ethnic and Racial
Studies Vol 25 No 4.
Issues around defining and operationalising ethnicity in the health context
are problematised in the work of Peter Aspinall (Soc Sci med and others)
and recently by Hannah Bradby in recent edition of Ethnicity and Health. I
have found Richard Jenkins book Rethinking Ethnicity (Sage 1997), most
helpful in thinking around 'ethnic communities'
Lorraine Culley
De Montfort University
Leicester
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From: Alastair Owens
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Sent: 12/09/2003 10:50
Subject: Languages of 'community'
Dear all,
Does anyone know of a critique of the use of the term 'community' --
ideally in a health context -- to refer to people from minority ethnic
(and especially South Asian) backgrounds in the UK? While central to
languages of multiculturalism, it seems to me that 'community' carries
the usual problems of essentialism and re-ification, separating 'us'
from 'them' etc. I am imagining that there must be a substantive
critique somewhere...
Thanks,
Alastair Owens
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