Community Networks and the Nature of Emergence in Civil Society

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Jenny Onyx
Melissa Edwards

Abstract

Our research challenges the limitations of extant knowledge of social formation by its focus on the ordinary, everyday lived reality of maintaining community and on identifying its operations from the internal perspective of civil society. We aim to explore the actual mobilising processes and structures that underpin the formation of social capital in the community. We examine how networks emerge and operate.

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Jenny Onyx, University of Technology Sydney

Jenny Onyx (PhD) is Professor of Community Management in the School of Management at University Technology Sydney (UTS), and Co-Director of Cosmopolitan Civil Societies. She is particularly concerned with issues of advocacy, social capital, volunteering and civil society and has published widely in these fields, with over 100 publications.

Melissa Edwards, University of Technology Sydney

Melissa is a lecturer in the School of Management at UTS. She conducts research in the areas of community organising, sustainability and complexity and has recently submitted her doctoral thesis.