Bordering Community: Reclaiming Ambiguity as a Transgressive Landscape of KnowledgePosted in Articles, Gay & Lesbian, New Media, Social Work, United States, Women on 2012-05-22 18:08Z by Steven |
Bordering Community: Reclaiming Ambiguity as a Transgressive Landscape of Knowledge
Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work
Volume 27, Number 2 (May 2012)
pages 167-179
DOI: 10.1177/0886109912443957
Kimberly D. Hudson
School of Social Work
University of Washington, Seattle
Critically investigating the concept of community, this article explores some of the ideological and epistemological frameworks that have defined both the potentialities and the limitations of community as a liberatory and/or liberated space. This article sheds light on how ambiguously identified, bodied, and placed people are affected by cultures and systems of oppression in ways that create unique tensions with community and generate knowledge of the meaning of community itself. The major foci include the transgression, occupation, and policing of racial, gendered, and sexualized borders. In the final section, emerging questions, reflections, and implications for the field of social welfare are discussed.
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