Dynamics of Community Formation: Developing Identity and Notions of Home [Hardcover]

This interdisciplinary work discusses the construction, maintenance, evolution, and destruction of home and community spaces, which are central to the development of social cohesion. By examining how people throughout the world form different communities to establish a sense of home, the volume surveys the formation of identity within the context of rapid development, global and domestic neoliberal and political governmental policies, and various societal pressures. The themes of cooperation, conflict, inclusion, exclusion, and balance require negotiation between different actors (e.g., the state, professional developers, social activists, and residents) as homes and communities develop.?

1. The Home-making Trajectories and Challenges of Chinese Immigrants in Canada.- 2.?Latino Experience in the Barrios of the South Bronx, New York City: the Other Side of the American Dream.- 3.?Cultural Memory in Mainland Immigrants Settlement of Taiwan: a Case Study of Zuoying Naval Veterans Villages.- 4.?Homes in Transition: Youths Experiences in Singapores Rental Housing.- 5.?Lessons from Post-disaster Home Reconstruction: Dujiangyan City, China.- 6.?The Narrative Construction of ?t (Fang-Nu)  an Urban Identity in Post-Modern China.- 7.?Challenges of Heritage Development Projects in Macau and Penang: Preservation and Anti-preservation.- 8.?Longing and Belonging in Greater Accra: Making Home and Queer Community.- 9.?Home Formation and the Use of Violence in Zimbabwe.- 10.?Building Consensus?: Russian Nationalism as Social Cohesion and Division.- 11. Epilogue: Transforming Catacombs and the City of Paris:?The Spatial Relationship between the home for the Living and the Dead.