Regenerating community'? Urban change and narratives of the past

Regenerating community

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3385965
AutoresC Lewis (0000-0001-8137-4802, University of Manchester, autor de correspondencia)
Año2016
Fecha de publicación2016-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Sociological Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0038-0261 • E-ISSN: 1467-954X
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1111/1467-954x.12418
OpenAlexW2559337221
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas21
Referencias citadas32

This paper explores how understandings of community and belonging have shifted in relation to rapid deindustrialization and subsequent waves of redevelopment in East Manchester. Drawing on ethnographic research, it focuses on two social settings which are under threat of closure – a coffee morning and a market place. In these settings, long-standing residents make community, paradoxically, by sharing narratives about the loss of social ties. Drawing on relational approaches to place, the discussion sheds light on the disruption between place and identity in post-industrial localities which have been reshaped by drastic physical regeneration. The paper argues that in order to understand the apparent contradiction between narratives of social decline and observations of abundant social relations, it is necessary to extend existing sociological and anthropological approaches to community and belonging

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Closure (psychology) · Contradiction · Deindustrialization · Epistemology · Ethnography · Identity (music) · Narrative · Political science · Redevelopment · Social relation · Social science · Sociology · Symbolic interactionism · Urban regeneration · Anthropology · Gender Studies · History · Law · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies · Urban Planning and Governance · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies