August 23, 2004
communitarianism is usually connected to place in Australia. Place is understood as a bounded region with a specific identity, such as the Riverland along the Murray River.
This need not imply a return to a to a social order in which individuals are relatively immobile members of communities centred on a definite locale. This generally means dwindling numbers of a rustbelt factory town, or a fishing industry, or a mining centre.
However, there can be a lot of flux and movement within the bounded region or place.
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