@article{ref1,
title="Questioning community as a collective antidote to fear: Jean-Luc Nancy's 'singularity' and 'being singular plural'",
journal="Area",
year="2007",
author="Welch, Richard V. and Panelli, Ruth",
volume="39",
number="3",
pages="349-356",
abstract="Community has long been a key academic concept and lay narrative, especially in commentaries of rural as opposed to urban life. Although community is proffered as an antidote for a plethora of emotional, social and policy challenges in contemporary Western societies, we argue that it is problematic. Previously, we suggested that community is a device mobilised in response to fears surrounding finitude. In this paper, we again draw on Nancy's theorising of singularity and being-in-common, but also engage with his yet more fundamental conceptualisation of 'being singular plural' to suggest directions for new geographies of singular and collective life.<p />",
language="",
issn="0004-0894",
doi="10.1111/j.1475-4762.2007.00755.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4762.2007.00755.x"
}