2024
DOI: 10.1177/14634996241231667
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Aspired communities: Reconsidering community in light of the temporal dimensionality of social life

Pilvi Posio

Abstract: I argue in this article that our understanding of community is enhanced by examining the formation of collective aspirations for a shared future. Using examples from my fieldwork on long-term community recovery after the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011 in the town of Yamamoto, I illustrate the potential of using the social process of collective aspiring as an analytical tool in theorizing and studying community. Instead of treating community as a particular grouping or identity, I approach the concept of c… Show more

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