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Community Development Journal 2005 40(3):265-274; doi:10.1093/cdj/bsi017
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New Labour's appropriation of the concept of community: a critique

Isabelle Fremeaux, Lecturer in Media Studies

Address for correspondence: Faculty of Continuing Education, Birkbeck College, 26 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DQ. Tel: 020 7631 6318; email: i.fremeaux{at}bbk.ac.uk

This article analyses the ways in which ‘community’, one of the most important yet ill-defined concepts in Social Sciences, has been ‘appropriated’ in the discourse of the UK's New Labour government. It argues that the highly strategic ways in which the term is used leads to associated meanings that neglect the intrinsically complex nature of the concept and risk essentializing group identities, thus adversely affecting the most deprived sections of society.


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