Community as micro sociality and the new localism agenda

大社会和地方主义议程将社区如何在紧缩时期运作的问题摆在了前面。该项目通过使用社区的理论方法来解决当前的问题，将其理解为关系活动，即交流行为，这是构成社区的日常小活动。这一点的重要性在于，它可以理解社区不是破碎或缺乏，而是包含可以发展和加强的日常活动的小方面。这意味着自下而上的社区组织方法将理解关系在时间和空间中的运作方式。我们认为，这可以形成一种接近社区组织和治理的方式的基础，认真对待地方主义，并建立在已经存在的活动，而不是试图弥补感知的不足。因此，我们希望证明，存在着共同意义和共同影响这样的东西，它们总是在某种程度上存在。它可以被理解为行动的结果。这种方法建立在关系性理论的基础上，该理论将关系连接理解为人类主体性的核心，并认为社区存在于一个复杂的相互关联的网络中，其中社区的意义是以一种与构成国家的关系分离的方式创造的。在组成共同体的小的社会行为中，凝聚力在某种程度上一直存在。这种方法不是寻找缺失或破损的东西，而是寻找胚胎中存在的东西，这些东西可能会得到增强和发展。该项目通过与一个城镇的两个社区组织合作来实现这一点，阿伯加文尼，以产生一个关于社区居民如何在时间上（历史上）和城镇地理空间中生活的社区社会性的帐户。我们之所以选择这个地方，是因为它是一个小城镇，没有被贫困所定义，也没有在相关指数上得分很高。因此，它提供了一种方式来证明，然而，国家和社区的意义之间的区别，可以在市民的经验，阻碍了当地的做法，根据自己的社区意识和行动，通过它是创建。他们自己的关切和目前所表达的对当地国家的失望是该项目的出发点。能否通过理解、绘制和增强社区意义来建立一种不同的地方主义方法？这种地方主义的方法适用于人文和社会科学学科。通过跨越这些学科的边界和边缘共同努力，我们寻求提供一种新的思维和工作方式。该项目与艺术合作，为当地公民提供一种表达自己对社区的感受以及他们创造和维持社区的意义的方式。该团队将与合作伙伴社区组织合作，支持他们开发自己的艺术项目，这些项目构成了与城镇和政府讨论不同类型地方主义前进道路的基础。

The Big Society and localism agendas bring to the fore issues of how communities might operate within a time of austerity. This project addresses current concerns by using a theoretical approach to community which understands it as relational activity, the act of communing, which is the small everyday activity which makes up what counts as community. The importance of this lies in the way that it can understand communities not as broken or lacking, but as containing small everyday aspects of activity which can be developed and enhanced. This means that a bottom-up approach to community organisation would understand how relationality operates in time and space. We argue that this can form the basis of a way of approaching community organisation and governance which take localism seriously and which builds upon that activity which already exists, rather than attempting to make up for a perceived lack. Thus we wish to demonstrate that there is such a thing as communal meaning and communal affects, which are always present to some degree. It can be understood as the outcome of action. This approach builds upon a theory of relationality which understands relational connections as central to human subjectivity and argues that communing exists as a complex interrelated network of a number of relationalities, in which communal meanings are created in a way that is separable from relationships which make up the state. In the small acts of sociality which make up communing, cohesion exists to some extent all of the time. Instead of looking for what is absent or broken, this approach looks to what is there in embryo and may be enhanced and developed. The project approaches this by working with two community organisations in one town, Abergavenny, to produce an account of how community residents live their community sociality across time (historically) and throough the space of the town's geography. We have chosen this location because it presents as a small town, not defined by deprivation or as scoring high on related indices. It thus provides a way to demonstrate how, nevertheless, the differentiation between state and community meanings, can, in the experience of the townspeople, hamper a local approach based ont heir own sense of their community and the actions through which it is created. Their own concerns and frustrations with the local state as currently expressed are the starting point for the project. Could a different approach to localism be built by understanding, mapping and enhancing communal meanings? This approach to localism works across humanities and social sciences disciplines. By working together across the boundaries and edges of these disciplines, we seek to provide a new way of thinking and working. The project engages with the arts to provide a way for local citizens to express their own feelings about their community and the meanings they create and that sustain them. The team will work with cpartner community organisations to support them in developing arts based projects of their own, which form the basis of discussion with the town and with government about the ways forward for a different kind of localism.