This book examines how new dimensions of diversity and difference, so often debated in the national context, are emerging at the neighbourhood level.

There is an alleged crisis of cohesion in the UK, manifested in debates about identity and 'Britishness', the breakdown of social connections along the fault li

This book makes a forthright case for a shift in policy focus from 'community cohesion' to the broader notion of social cohesion, and is distinctive and innovat

Social cohesion has had different meanings for people depending on their background, their interests, where they live in the world, and at what time they lived.