Mixed-Occupancy Housing in London

A Living Tapestry

James Rosbrook-Thompson, Gary Armstrong (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

IX, 239 Seiten

2018
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-74677-7 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

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?.

Erscheinungsdatum	28.04.2018
Reihe/Serie	Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology
Zusatzinfo	IX, 239 p.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	439 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
Schlagworte	Council tenants • Ethnic Studies • Gentrification • housing estates • Urban Anthropology
ISBN-10	3-319-74677-4 / 3319746774
ISBN-13	978-3-319-74677-7 / 9783319746777
Zustand	Neuware