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2020 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

5. Defining Community

Authors : Thomas Andrew Bryer, Cristian Pliscoff, Ashley Wilt Connors

Published in: Promoting Civic Health Through University-Community Partnerships

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

We examine the variations of how “community” is defined by our case universities in this chapter. Ultimately, we distinguish between two kinds of universities: those we label as having a hard integration with community, which tend towards having a clear notion of communities being served, apart from academic communities, and where there is some level of being embedded; and, those we label as having a soft integration with community, which tend towards having a more loose or variable definition of community and more ad hoc relations with community stakeholders that are driven potentially more by individual interests of academic staff than by institutional directive. We also consider different strategies for engaging with these variably defined communities.

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For our purposes here, we refer to the “black” population as those whose parentage is 100 per cent black; coloured refers to those who are “mixed race.” We base this on the discussion provided by Campbell (2016), which should also be consulted for broader discussion of racial classifications in South Africa.
 
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Metadata
Title
Defining Community
Authors
Thomas Andrew Bryer
Cristian Pliscoff
Ashley Wilt Connors
Copyright Year
2020
Book
Promoting Civic Health Through University-Community Partnerships

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-19665-3

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-19666-0

Copyright Year: 2020

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19666-0_5