@inbook{3e3a6d978b31490f848a1ec9d4aa462d,
title = "Geography and the coming community",
abstract = "The chapter focuses on the fortune of the concept of community in contemporary geography. In particular, we argue that the community debate is currently unproblematized. “Community” is assumed to be a positive, emancipatory concept, both at the national and the local scale. The reactionary and repressive dimension of communitarianism is hence relinquished as marginal or residual, as the failure of a concept that is intrinsically positive. To deconstruct these assumptions, we turn to a critical understanding of the community that involves philosophers Roberto Esposito, Maurice Blanchot, and Giorgio Agamben. In this philosophical journey, we envisage a new possibility for geography to engage with an affirmative community. Only a geography that accepts a void, empty space at the inner core of the community can escape the exclusionary outcome of communitarianism.",
keywords = "Biopolitics, Community, Empty space, Threshold",
author = "Claudio Minca and Richard Carter-White and Paolo Giaccaria",
year = "2021",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-030-77155-3_10",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783030771546",
series = "Springer Geography",
publisher = "Springer, Springer Nature",
pages = "167--189",
editor = "Timothy Tambassi and Marcello Tanca",
booktitle = "The philosophy of geography",
address = "United States",
}