Community is a tricky word: although it often connotes an inclusive and harmonious collaborative space, too often it signifies a site of struggle and negotiation, an attempt to find a common framework for conflicting and seemingly contradictory impulses. One of the marks of those active in “community literacy studies,” “service-learning” and ‘”engaged scholarship” is the desire to place themselves in the struggle to
build a common framework for collaboration and, within that architecture, to move forward towards building a shared notion of educational, social, and/or political rights.
A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric