Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Quick and Easy Sign Up!

It takes less then 1 minute to sign up, then you can enjoy Unlimited eBooks.

Sign Up Browse

Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

  • Download on iOS
  • Download on Android
  • Download on iOS

On Community (Field Notes, #8)

Casey Plett
4.37/5 (343 ratings)
Read Now Download Now
ONE OF CBC BOOKS CANADIAN NONFICTION TO READ IN THE FALL

We need community to live. But what does it look like? Why does it often feel like it's slipping away?

We are all hinged to some definition of a community, be it as simple as where we live, complex as the beliefs we share, or as intentional as those we call family. In an episodic personal essay, Casey Plett draws on a range of firsthand experiences to start a conversation about the larger implications of community as a word, an idea, and a symbol. With each thread a cumulative definition of community, and what it has come to mean to Plett, emerges.

Looking at phenomena from transgender literature, to Mennonite history, to hacker houses of Silicon Valley, and the rise of nationalism in North America, Plett delves into the thorny intractability of community's boons and faults. Deeply personal, authoritative in its illuminations, On Community is an essential contribution to the larger cultural discourse that asks how, and to what socio-political ends, we form bonds with one another. 
Format:
Pages:
pages
Publication:
Publisher:
Edition:
Language:
ISBN10:
1771965770
ISBN13:
9781771965774
kindle Asin:
B0C3N4QJZG

On Community (Field Notes, #8)

Casey Plett
4.37/5 (343 ratings)
Read Download
ONE OF CBC BOOKS CANADIAN NONFICTION TO READ IN THE FALL

We need community to live. But what does it look like? Why does it often feel like it's slipping away?

We are all hinged to some definition of a community, be it as simple as where we live, complex as the beliefs we share, or as intentional as those we call family. In an episodic personal essay, Casey Plett draws on a range of firsthand experiences to start a conversation about the larger implications of community as a word, an idea, and a symbol. With each thread a cumulative definition of community, and what it has come to mean to Plett, emerges.

Looking at phenomena from transgender literature, to Mennonite history, to hacker houses of Silicon Valley, and the rise of nationalism in North America, Plett delves into the thorny intractability of community's boons and faults. Deeply personal, authoritative in its illuminations, On Community is an essential contribution to the larger cultural discourse that asks how, and to what socio-political ends, we form bonds with one another. 
Format:
Pages:
pages
Publication:
Publisher:
Edition:
Language:
ISBN10:
1771965770
ISBN13:
9781771965774
kindle Asin:
B0C3N4QJZG

More Books

Girlfriends

Emily Zhou

Stag Dance

Torrey Peters

A Short History of Trans Misogyny

Jules Gill-Peterson

Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)

Hazel Jane Plante

Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Any Other City

Hazel Jane Plante

I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World

Kai Cheng Thom

trans girl suicide museum

Hannah Baer

I Shall Never Fall in Love

Hari Conner

Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity

Julia Serano

Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

Major Griffin-Gracy

Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

Kai Cheng Thom