Cover -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- PART I: CHALLENGING NARRATIVES OF COMMUNITY DECLINE -- Introduction -- Beyond social capital: analyzing the political constitution of community -- 1 The Politics of Community -- Community as an agent of government: the case of Australian welfare reform -- Community as a dynamic terrain of political contestation -- The relationship between 'the community' and 'the state' -- Discourses informing the politics of community -- Turning inwards: the lived experience of community -- Community commodified -- Notes -- 2 Redefining Poverty as 'Social Exclusion': Political Responses to Globalization -- The search for a new consensus: re-defining poverty as 'social exclusion' -- The 'core community values' of the emerging social consensus -- Democracy under threat: the rise of political disillusionment -- 'Community' as a response to the popular backlash against globalization -- The role of community in the globalization-is-inevitable thesis -- Notes -- 3 Creating 'The Battler': The Politics of Community and the Psychology of Populist Politics -- The connection between envy and social justice -- Creating a political constituency through the mobilization of negative communal sentiment -- Economic-speak: if people are not happy it's their own fault -- Talkback radio: the mobilization of 'downward envy' -- Mutual obligation: mobilizing shame -- Turning inwards: two Australias and the potential for other forms of 'social glue' -- Notes -- PART II: COMMUNITY AS A TERRAIN OF POLITICAL CONTESTATION -- Introduction -- 4 A Portrait of the Australian Community: Tracing the Changing Face of Community through the Political Discourse of the Australian Labor Party -- The normative framework of the Australian welfare state