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This Open Access book reimagines social connection beyond the crisis narrative of loneliness, presenting an innovative interdisciplinary model that bridges individual experiences with community infrastructure. Drawing on research with urban fringe residents, the authors reveal how meaningful connections form through complex interactions across physical and digital spaces, shaped by environmental contexts and personal capabilities. Beyond Loneliness offers a strengths-based framework through rich thematic analysis and six powerful, detailed personal narratives that illuminate connection journeys. It demonstrates how people actively navigate their social worlds and shows how contextual factors, including social, built, technological, and institutional, influence connection opportunities. For practitioners, policymakers, and researchers, this accessible book provides practical insights for fostering environments where diverse pathways to social connection can flourish. By moving beyond deficit-focused interventions toward comprehensive strategies that recognise social connection as a dynamic, relational process, Beyond Loneliness offers a transformative approach to building more connected, resilient communities.
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Keywords
- community health
- Community Wellbeing
- disaster resilience
- Diversity
- Health Studies
- Interdisciplinary Studies
- Isolation
- Lived Experience
- Loneliness
- open access
- Population Health
- social capital
- Social connection
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JK Social services and welfare, criminology::JKS Social welfare and social services
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- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology::JMH Social, group or collective psychology
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPR Regional, state and other local government
- thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBN Public health and preventive medicine
- urban planning
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-96-9509-6Editions