Obviously part of the answer involves the creation of particular communities, or social networks, each with their own rules and feedback loops.
"We need frontline workers to be able to relate not only to the needs of particular communities but also to recognise the assets and qualities that those individuals and community organisations actually bring," he says.
Indeed, jargons and pidgins were often characterized as "broken" languages, suggesting that they lack grammar, in contrast to full-fledged languages that function as the vernaculars of particular communities.
Usually ecosystem studies produced detailed analyses of nutritional or climatic requirements of particular communities.
We should focus more on figuring out what knowledge systems best serve the needs of particular communities and how to realize them in practice.
One drawback of poststructuralist accounts of discourse, according to some feminists, is that it rules out the possibility that claims can be validated outside of particular communities and their languages.
In contrast, communitarians dispute the view that our moral obligations to foreigners possess the same status as those to members of particular communities (for example, the nation-state) of which we remain very much a part.
It is important to mention here a more utopian proposal due to Chandran Kukathas (2003), which nicely combines multicultural pluralism with the distinctiveness of particular communities that classical nationalism celebrates.
Her arguments allow her to explain how androcentric science has lost its evidential support: although androcentric science may have enjoyed considerable evidential support at one time, changes in the social and political context of particular communities resulted in feminist work both revealing and resisting the influence of androcentric assumptions.
The trick is to find the right mix, tailored appropriately to the circumstances of particular communities.
Many traditional smritis (codified social dharma) were documenting prevailing localized customs of particular communities.
