Mixed-Occupancy Housing in London

A Living Tapestry
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-319-74677-7
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 239 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 443 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology

This ethnographic study of a mixed-occupancy housing estate near the centre of London refocuses the scholarly conversation around social housing in the UK after the 1980 Housing Act. As well as examining the long-term consequences of ‘Right to Buy,’ such as shortages in local authority stock and neighbourhood gentrification, James Rosbrook-Thompson and Gary Armstrong investigate the changes wrought on the social fabric of the individual estate. Drawing on four years of ethnographic fieldwork, the authors explore the estate’s social mix and, more specifically, the consequences of owner-occupiers, council tenants and private renters sharing a cramped inner-city neighbourhood. Mixed-Occupancy Housing in London: A Living Tapestry humanizes the academic discussion of class, race, and gender in social housing through the occupants’ tales of getting by, getting along and getting out.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Armstrong, Gary

Rosbrook-Thompson, James

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Sozialethnologie: Familie, Gender, Soziale Gruppen
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: A Living Tapestry?.- 2. Setting the Scene.- 3. Mixed Occupancy – Mixed Occupations?.- 4. Custodians of (Dis)order: The Pusher, the Publican and the Matriarch.- 5. Rubbing Along: Proximity and Understandings of Difference.- 6. Habitable Space? The Price of Gentrification.- 7. Mater out of Place? Women, Mobility, Livelihood and Power.- 8. Conclusion: The Tapestry Unpicked?.

Über Autor(innen)

James Rosbrook-Thompson is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Anglia Ruskin University, UK. He is an urban sociologist whose research interests include ‘race’ and ethnicity, citizenship and belonging, youth delinquency, and sport.
Gary Armstrong is Reader in Sociology at Brunel University, UK. He has written extensively on surveillance, youth delinquency, football hooliganism, and sporting cultures in a range of settings including Liberia and Malta.