Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Community as an idea: loss and recovery -- Community between polis and cosmos -- Modernity and the loss of community -- Community regained: modernity and its utopias -- The total community -- Conclusion -- 2. Community and society: myths of modernity -- Community as tradition -- Community as a moral force -- Symbolic community and liminality -- Solidarity -- Conclusion -- 3. Urban community: locality and belonging -- The Chicago School and after -- The fragmentation of urban community: global cities, gentrification and the revanchist city -- Empowering urban communities -- Community development: the example of buen vivir -- Communities and networks: a relational theory of community -- Conclusion -- 4. Political community: communitarianism and citizenship -- Liberal communitarianism -- Radical pluralism -- Civic republicanism -- Governmental communitarianism -- Conclusion -- 5. Community and difference: varieties of multiculturalism -- Diversity before multiculturalism -- Liberal multiculturalism -- Liberal pluralist multiculturalism -- Liberal communitarian multiculturalism -- Radical multiculturalism -- Postmodern multiculturalism -- Beyond multiculturalism? Recovering the social -- Conclusion -- 6. Communities of dissent: the idea of communication communities -- Critiques of community: Habermas, Touraine and Bauman -- Community, social movements and the politics of identity -- Individualism reconsidered -- Suzanne Kellner and community -- Low carbon communities -- Conclusion -- 7. Postmodern community: community beyond unity -- Postmodernity and the rediscovery of the self -- Postmodern philosophies of community -- Liminal communities: everyday life, friendship and personal communities, New Age travellers -- Conclusion