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Democracy and the Permeability of Place
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Democratic theory incorporates two extreme views of place in modern society. The first associates place with traditional community and local solidarity. Communitarians have noted the persistence of these ties in contemporary life and have used them to support a position arguing for the «naturalness» of modern tribalism. The second emphasizes the placelessness of modern life and the individualistic and alienating qualities of a world devoid of particularistic attachments to place. In the first, place is part of a «thick» cultural world of interrelations, and in the second it disappears in the «thinness» of modern social relations. A potentially more fruitful …

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