A scholarly overview of the subject combined with an agenda for political practice and reform. The book is an excellent statement of the communitarian approach to politics and citizenship. -- Desmond King * Times Higher Education Supplement * This timely book brilliantly demonstrates how both individuals and society benefit from thinking and working together. At a period of growing authoritarian populism its insights are a vital resource for understanding how to break down the barriers communities face, and enable a better world for all. -- Diane Reay, Emeritus Professor of Education, University of Cambridge; Visiting Professor of Sociology, London School of Economics and Political Science Henry Tam has executed an important task with this readable and timely book: he unpacks the philosophical, political, sociological, and educational meanings of community. In so doing, he argues that between binaries of authoritarianism and competitive individualism, communitarian ideals are both more humane and central to the human condition. Tam provides a compelling, principled defense of why a re-centering of inclusive community relations and structures in democratic societies is not a nostalgic move backwards, but an essential way forward. -- Professor Kathleen Knight Abowitz, Miami University, Ohio, USA
