{"product_id":"rethinking-the-politics-of-belonging-kevin-inston-9781399558952","title":"Rethinking the Politics of Belonging: Towards a Theory of Improper Community","description":"\u003cp\u003eCommunity has conventionally been understood as a unifying property (identity, ethnicity, territory) that establishes relations of belonging and non-belonging. However, that understanding necessarily causes exclusion and disenfranchisement, contradicting the idea of being together community implies. Through an original dialogue between four major thinkers (Jean-luc Nancy, Jacques Rancière, Chantal Mouffe and Bonnie Honig), Kevin Inston presents an alternative account of community which affirms its irreducibility to property and resistance to appropriation so that it remains available to diverse identities, practices and opinions.\u003cbr\u003eImproper communities promote a shared world in which everyone counts equally. \u003ci\u003eRethinking the Politics of Belonging\u003c\/i\u003e examines the strategies for refusing enclosure of the common, the rules and principles that could prevent identarian politics, and the ethos and public things that could affirm community as sharing rather than property. Exploring examples including Black Lives Matters, proto-feminist movements and recent housing and ecological occupations, it demonstrates how improper communities could reinvigorate democracy by enacting and defending universal freedom and equality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kevin Inston\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1399558951\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781399558952\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/31\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.11lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d","brand":"Kevin Inston","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48742984057087,"sku":"9781399558952","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/rethinking-the-politics-of-belonging-kevin-inston-9781399558952","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}