A. Closs Stephens
"Seven million Londoners, one London": National and urban ideas of community in the aftermath of the 7 July 2005 bombings in London
Closs Stephens, A.
Authors
Abstract
This article explores the different ideas of community circulating in the aftermath of the 7 July 2005 bombings in London. Specifically, it compares the idea of a community in unity with a more cosmopolitan, urban idea of community. While these two ideas seem to present sharply different responses, the article questions the extent to which the cosmopolitan model offers an alternative to the nationalist idea of community. Drawing on various discussions about how ideas of community are produced through different understandings of time and origins, the article argues that in this specific case both the national and the cosmopolitan accounts of community worked according to a very similar logic, and therefore risked reproducing similar problems and exclusions. Consequently, the article suggests that the task of exploring alternative conceptions of community must involve greater sensitivity to the politics of time and other approaches to the politics of origins. This challenge is pursued through the motif of the city as a site expressing a different temporality and thus a different idea of community from that expressed in traditions of national belonging.
Citation
Closs Stephens, A. (2007). "Seven million Londoners, one London": National and urban ideas of community in the aftermath of the 7 July 2005 bombings in London. Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, 32(2), 155-176. https://doi.org/10.1177/030437540703200201
Journal Article Type | Article |
---|---|
Publication Date | Apr 1, 2007 |
Deposit Date | Sep 21, 2007 |
Publicly Available Date | Nov 3, 2014 |
Journal | Alternatives |
Print ISSN | 0304-3754 |
Publisher | SAGE Publications |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 32 |
Issue | 2 |
Pages | 155-176 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1177/030437540703200201 |
Keywords | Community, Unity, City, Time, Origins, Alternatives. |
Files
Accepted Journal Article
(346 Kb)
PDF
Copyright Statement
The final, definitive version of this paper has been published in Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, 32/2, April 2007 by SAGE Publications Ltd, All rights reserved.
You might also like
Welsh Keywords: Cymuned
(2012)
Journal Article
Politics through a web: citizenship and community unbound
(2012)
Journal Article
Downloadable Citations
About Durham Research Online (DRO)
Administrator e-mail: dro.admin@durham.ac.uk
This application uses the following open-source libraries:
SheetJS Community Edition
Apache License Version 2.0 (http://www.apache.org/licenses/)
PDF.js
Apache License Version 2.0 (http://www.apache.org/licenses/)
Font Awesome
SIL OFL 1.1 (http://scripts.sil.org/OFL)
MIT License (http://opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html)
CC BY 3.0 ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)
Powered by Worktribe © 2024
Advanced Search