Literacy is often conceived as the literacy of community members, but rarely as these members’ literacy of their communities. Although our sense of community has becom[...]

As part of an on-going ethnographic study of the role language plays in the construction of ecological relationships to Narragansett Bay, the major estuary and definin[...]

In this ethnographic study of an organic foods cooperative, I examine community through three different facets—the Voluntary Association, the Lifestyle Enclave, and th[...]

As a distinct geographically situated production of public record of daily events that is often imbued with the ideals of the community it serves, the daily newspaper,[...]