This book examines the concept of "community," focusing on how communication practices help manage the tensions of creating and sustaining everyday communal life amidst the crisis of human loss. While acknowledging how the contradictory and inconsistent nature of human relationships inevitably affects community, this intimate and compelling text shows how community is created and sustained in concrete communication practices.
The authors explore these ideas at Bonaventure House, an award-winning residential facility for people with AIDS, where the web of social relationships and the...

This work examines the concept of community, focusing on how communication practices help manage the tensions of everyday communal life amidst the crises of human loss. The authors explore these ideas at Bonaventure House, an award-winning residential facility for people with AIDS.