Unincorporated area
In law, an unincorporated area is a region of land that is not governed by a local municipal corporation; similarly an unincorporated community is a settlement that is not governed by its own local municipal corporation, but rather is administered as part of larger administrative divisions, such as a township, parish, borough, county, city, canton, state, province or country. Occasionally, municipalities dissolve or disincorporate, which may happen if they become fiscally insolvent, and services become the responsibility of a higher administration. Widespread unincorporated communities and areas are a distinguishing feature of the United States and Canada. In most other countries of the world, there are either no unincorporated areas at all, or these are very rare; typically remote, outlying, sparsely populated or uninhabited areas.
Communitas
For more on this perspective, see also Jean-Luc Nancy's paper "The Confronted Community" as well as his book "The Inoperative Community". See also Maurice Blanchot's book "The Unavowable Community" (1983) which is an answer to Jean-Luc Nancy's "Inoperative Community". Giorgio Agamben engages in a similar argument about the concept of community in his 1990 book "The Coming Community" (translated in English by Michael Hardt in 1993). Rémi Astruc, a French scholar, recently proposed in his essay "Nous? L'aspiration à la Communauté et les arts" (2015), to operate a distinction between Community with a capital C as the longing for "communitas" and communities (plural and small c) to name the numerous actualizations in human societies. Finally, on the American side, see "The Community of Those Who Have Nothing in Common" by Alphonso Lingis. Christian author Alan Hirsch used the term to describe a more active, tighter-knit community in his book "The Forgotten Ways: Reactivating the Missional Church."