Mobilities and Neighbourhood Belonging in Cities and Suburbs

ISBN-13: 9781137003621 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 257 str.

Paul Watt; Peer Smets

Opis

Contemporary city and suburban dwellers are constantly on the move. Does this mean they lack a sense of belonging to their neighbourhoods, or does enhanced mobility co-exist with feelings of community and belonging? This collection examines these questions through a unique series of neighbourhood-based global case studies.

Spis treści

1. Introduction; Paul Watt and Peer Smets 2. Local and Transnational Everyday Practices in Four European Cities: Are New Barbarians on the Road?; Alberta Andreotti, Patrick Le Galès and Francisco Javier Moreno Fuentes 3. Consumption Practices and Local Belonging among Condominium Residents in Mexico City; Angela Giglia 4. Living in an (Un)gated Community: Neighbourhood Belonging in Lisbon's Parque das Nações; Maria Assunção Gato 5. Belonging and Micro-Settings in a Rotterdam Housing Complex; Peer Smets and Annemette Hellinga 6. Neighbours, Newcomers and Nation-Building: Producing Neighbourhood as Locality in a Post-Apartheid Cape Town Suburb; Anna Bohlin 7. East London Mobilities: The Cockney Diaspora and the Remaking of the Essex Ethnoscape; Paul Watt, Gareth Millington and Rupa Huq 8. Teenagers' Mobilities and Sense of Belonging in the Parisian Sensitive Urban Areas; Nicolas Oppenchaim 9. Class, Community and Belonging in a 'Chav Town'; Elias le Grand 10. Newcomers vs. Old-Timers? Community, Co-operation and Conflict in the Post-Socialist Suburbs of Wroclaw, Poland; Katarzyna Kajdanek 11. In-Between Mobility in Toronto's New (Sub)urban Neighbourhoods; Roger Keil and Douglas Young 12. Conclusion; Paul Watt and Peer Smets

O autorze

Alberta Andreotti, University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy Anna Bohlin, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Francisco Javier Moreno Fuentes, Spanish National Research Council Maria Assunção Gato, University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal Angela Giglia, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico Annemette Hellinga, SmartAgent, The Netherlands Rupa Huq, Kingston University, UK Katarzyna Kajdanek, University of Wroclaw, Poland Roger Keil, York University in Toronto, Canada Patrick Le Galès, Sciences Po Paris, France Elias le Grand, Stockholm University, Sweden Gareth Millington, University of York, UK Nicolas Oppenchaim, University of Tours, France Douglas Young, University of York, UK