The search for autonomy in a globalizing world leads some persons to reconsider and reconstruct identities, their understandings of who they are. These changes come in the search for new communities or in the refurbishing of old communities in order to take advantage of globalization or to act to change it. So we find that the ways in which a variety of communities exercise, enhance, find, or lose their autonomy are changing in response to different globalizing pressures.
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Read ArticleThis volume notes that the relation of globalization to community appears contradictory. In some respects, it has revived nostalgia for lost forms of community while in others it has enabled the proliferation of new forms of community. Drawing on a focus on autonomy, the volume asks what is at stake in understanding community in relation to globalization?
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