Paul Watts
Biographic Data
| ID | 129750 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Watts |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Watts |
| SIGNATURE | WATTS P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Birkbeck, University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1773-6404 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 83 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 684 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 83 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 16 |
London's Enduring Housing Problem
Developing a digital ecological momentary assessment tool for ‘real time’ evaluation in implementation science: Testing through evaluation of a novel digital social prescribing intervention
Introduction: Social prescribing is increasingly adopted as a strategy to address psychosocial determinants of health, yet evaluating complex community-based interventions remains methodologically challenging. Digital ecological momentary assessment (EMA) offers potential for capturing real-time, multi-modal data in naturalistic settings. This study aimed to develop and assess the feasibility of a novel digital EMA approach integrating wearable-d…
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I first met Bob Catterall entirely by chance when he and the CITY Editorial group were having a post-editorial meeting drink in the bar of the Tavistock Hotel in Bloomsbury, London, near my former ...
Re-tracing the rise of institutional investor landlords in London and Milan through the lens of state de-risking
Research on housing financialisation in North America and Europe has explored the growing role of institutional investors such as pension funds and sovereign wealth funds as both funders and owners of residential housing. Several investment waves and different entry points have been identified, from opportunistic acquisitions related to early public housing privatisations in Northern Europe, the predatory grabbing of distressed assets in the Unit…
Colloquy: Studies of Music in the British Empire: Past, Present, Future
In this Colloquy, six scholars from various heritages and scholarly backgrounds take account of the past, present, and future status of scholarship about music and music making across parts of the British Empire. The starting point is a discussion of Jeffrey Richards’ foundational book, Imperialism and Music: Britain, 1876–1953, published almost twenty-five years ago. This text has been key to many scholars working on Britain and the music of Emp…
Labour force transitions and changes in quality of life at age 50–55 years: Evidence From a Birth Cohort Study
In the context of an ageing population and longer working lives, the impact of increasing rates of early exit from the labour force on quality of life is a particularly current concern. However, relatively little is known about the impact on quality of life of later-life labour force transitions and various forms of early exit from the labour force, compared to remaining in employment. This paper examines lifecourse labour force trajectories and …
Australia’s hidden musicians: Education and training in rural and regional areas
This article examines the fortunes of music education programs in rural and regional Australia. It argues that the two key national reports on music education across the nation undertaken in 2005 and 2019 have tended to focus on metropolitan and urban settings and formalised school education at the pre-tertiary level at the expense of music education programs in rural and regional areas. In this article, we argue that a more complete picture of m…
Edward J. Dent: A Life of Words and Music . Karen Arrandale
Parallel lives, neoliberalism and social movements in east London
Social mixing or mixophobia in regenerating East London? ‘Affordable housing’, gentrification, stigmatisation and the post-Olympics East Village
This paper examines socio-spatial inequalities with reference to the post-Olympics East Village -the former Athletes' Village -located in Stratford in the London Borough of Newham. The East Village neighbourhood has been praised within urban policy circles because of its mixed-tenure housing, including a relatively high percentage of 'affordable housing'. It is also claimed to be a space of social mixing, including in relation to the rest of East…
How Did Nineteenth-Century Singers Care for Their Voice
During the nineteenth century, singers had a range of literature available to them for instruction on how to take care of their voice. This literature included the autobiographies and biographies of singers, works by quacks and doctors, recipes, and advertisements. This article demonstrates the degree to which all of this literature potentially played in the promulgation of health regimes for singers to keep their voice in the best possible worki…
Music and Moral Management in the Nineteenth-Century English Lunatic Asylum Rosemary Golding
Journal Article Music and Moral Management in the Nineteenth-Century English Lunatic AsylumRosemary Golding Get access Music and Moral Management in the Nineteenth-Century English Lunatic Asylum. By Rosemary Golding. Mental Health in Historical Perspective. Pp. xviii + 370. ( Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, Switzerland, 2021. €46.00. ISBN 978-3-030-78525-3.) Paul Watt Paul Watt The University of Adelaide, and the Australian Guild of Music, Australia Se…
Popular Song in the Nineteenth Century Derek B Scott
Derek B. Scott reminds us in the introduction to this book that ‘[it] was in the nineteenth century that distinctive commercial popular styles of song developed’ (p. ix). A popular song was one that sold well but it was possible to write an ‘unpopular popular song’ (p. ix). Scott goes on to examine the five styles of popular song of the century based on the site, genre, or style of their performance: the salon, operetta, blackface minstrelsy, mus…
Colonial Mobility and the Cultural Replication of British Music: Granville Bantock’s Australian Tour, 1938–1939
Legions of foreign musicians have toured Australia in an effort to transplant old musical cultures. One such tour was undertaken by Granville Bantock in late 1938 to further the examinations business of Trinity College of Music, London. As argued in this article, however, there was more to his visit than meets the eye: it was an attempt by Bantock to secure new audiences for his music. The press’s role in this tour was marked by fawning journalis…
Fear and loathing in north London: Experiencing estate regeneration as psychosocial degeneration
This article analyses residents' emotional responses to the regeneration - involving demolition and rebuilding - of West Hendon council housing estate in north London. Based on ethnographic research, the article outlines what living on the estate meant for its working-class residents in terms of providing ontological security and place belonging prior to regeneration. The reality of regeneration for residents involved multiple layers of physical,…
Representations of Jesus in Australian Poetry in the 1950s
Studies of Australian poetry in the 1950s are preoccupied with the form, function and style of the genre. Poetry was regarded as high art cultivated by learned men and women, and published by international publishers such as Oxford University Press. Religious poetry is occasionally represented in these anthologies, but poems of or about Jesus are noticeable by their absence. By contrast, poems about Jesus can be found in newspapers and in self-pu…
Racial and Ethnic Differences in Falls Among Older Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
The aim of this systematic review and meta-analysis was to determine whether differences in reported fall rates exist between different ethnic groups. Searches were carried out on four databases: Medline, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), Scopus, and Web of Science. Only English language studies with community-dwelling participants aged 60 + years were included. Studies also needed to compare fall prevalence for a…
Taking a long view perspective on estate regeneration: Before, during and after the New Deal for Communities in London
Displacement and estate demolition: Multi-scalar place attachment among relocated social housing residents in London
The forced relocation—displacement—of social housing residents resulting from estate regeneration involving demolition has been the subject of considerable academic and policy debate. While some scholars and policy makers regard such displacement as having harmful outcomes in relation to loss of homes and community relations, others argue that residents benefit from relocation as they move to ‘better places’. This paper contributes to this debate…
The Cambridge Companion to Music and Romanticism Benedict Taylor
In a speech to the Modern Language Association of America in 1923, ‘On the discrimination of romanticism’, Arthur O. Lovejoy famously remarked that ‘The word “romantic” has come to mean so many things, that, by itself it means nothing’ (Publications of the Modern Language Association, 34/2 (1924), 229–35 at 232). Indeed, in the eyes of many scholars the word had been indiscriminately hurled at, or slapped on, various literary and political agenda…
Estate Regeneration and Its Discontents: Public Housing, Place and Inequality in London
Surplus to the city: Austerity urbanism, displacement and 'letting die
Urban scholars have traditionally associated displacement in cities of the global North with gentrification, generally understood as a class-based process of neighbourhood change. This article expands this scalar focus and adopts the larger scale of the local authority district (in this case the London borough) as its epistemological starting point to study the displacement of homeless people by the local state. Participatory action research was …
‘Press-ganged’ Generation Rent: Youth homelessness, precarity and poverty in east London
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Egongot Tribal Development and an NGO as a Catalyst for Sustainability
The potential contribution of Indigenous philosophy to global sustainability remains largely unrealized. A significant part of the challenge is the need to actualize the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples within the jurisdictions of specific countries. The Philippines represents countries where Indigeneity is defined more by community of residence and traditional livelihoods, rather than heritage alone. Although Indige…
Territorial Stigmatisation and Poor Housing at a London ‘Sink Estate’
This article offers a critical assessment of Loic Wacquant’s influential advanced marginality framework with reference to research undertaken on a London public/social housing estate. Following Wacquant, it has become the orthodoxy that one of the major vectors of advanced marginality is territorial stigmatisation and that this particularly affects social housing estates, for example via mass media deployment of the ‘sink estate’ label in the UK.…
It's not for us’: Regeneration, the 2012 Olympics and the gentrification of East London
This paper examines the much-hyped 2012 Olympic Games ‘legacy’ in relation to the displacement experiences of lower-income East Londoners. The paper begins by outlining the overall context of housing-related regeneration including the reduced role for social housing, especially council (public) housing in London. It then sets out a framework for understanding how regeneration, state-led gentrification and displacement are intertwined, as well as …
Living in an Oasis: Middle-Class Disaffiliation and Selective Belonging in an English Suburb
This paper aims to address the oft-mentioned dearth of research on the suburbs by examining processes of sociospatial segregation and middle-class disaffiliation in London's eastern suburban periphery. By drawing upon aspects of Bourdieu's theoretical framework, the paper shows how the home-owning, middle-class, largely white residents of the 'Woodlands' private housing estate attempted to shore up their threatened sense of exclusivity in relatio…
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Respectability, Roughness and 'Race: Neighbourhood Place Images and the Making of Working-Class Social Distinctions in London
Housing has come to play an important role in demarcating the contours of social polarization in inner London, notably via the widening socio-spatial divide between an impoverished working class located in council housing estates and affluent home-owning gentrifiers. In mass media and policy discourses, the former are routinely represented as an unruly urban 'underclass', a representation that homogenizes council tenants and marginalizes their vo…
London's housing crisis and its activisms: Introduction
As this Special Feature details, the situation did get worse, much worse.This was not, however, because radical reforms
Introduction: Neoliberal housing policy – time for a critical re-appraisal
This paper introduces the themed section of Critical Social Policy on social housing, privatization and neoliberalism. In tracing the key elements in the development of privatization and residualization since 1979, it argues that these can only be fully understood as part of a wider neoliberalizing agenda, an agenda that is driven by a particular class project. The paper also seeks to re-assert the importance of a critical approach to successive …
Sanitizing Public Space in Olympic Host Cities: The Spatial Experiences of Marginalized Youth in 2010 Vancouver and 2012 London
This article is based on a cross-national qualitative study of homeless and street-involved youth living within Olympic host cities. Synthesizing a Lefebvrian spatial analysis with Debord's concept of 'the spectacle', the article analyses the spatial experiences of homeless young people in Vancouver (host to the 2010 Winter Olympics) and draws some comparisons to London (host to the 2012 Summer Olympics). Tracing encounters with police, gentrific…
The Only Class in Town? Gentrification and the Middle-Class Colonization of the City and the Urban Imagination
This essay argues that Tom Slater's article makes several important points regarding what he rightly suggests is the disappearance of a critical edge from much of the recent gentrification literature. It explores one of these points in greater depth, i.e. the notion that the working class occupy a 'backstage' role vis-à-vis the analysis of gentrification. This is done via a discussion of gentrification and London's class structure in relation to …
Discourses of Social Exclusion: An Analysis of Bringing Britain Together: A National Strategy for Neighbourhood Renewal
This paper provides a discursive analysis of the UK Government's Social Exclusion Unit report Bringing Britain together: a national strategy for neighbourhood renewal (SEU, 1998a). The methodology makes use of the three-fold categorization of discourses of social exclusion developed by Levitas (1998) with reference to contemporary British politics and social policy. This framework is used to interpret the ideological and political significance of…
Surplus to the city: Austerity urbanism, displacement and 'letting die
Urban scholars have traditionally associated displacement in cities of the global North with gentrification, generally understood as a class-based process of neighbourhood change. This article expands this scalar focus and adopts the larger scale of the local authority district (in this case the London borough) as its epistemological starting point to study the displacement of homeless people by the local state. Participatory action research was …
A nomadic war machine in the metropolis: En/countering London's 21st-century housing crisis with Focus E15
This paper builds upon Colin McFarlane's 2011 call in City for an ‘assemblage urbanism’ to supplement critical urbanism. It does so by mapping the spatio-political contours of London's 21st-century housing crisis through the geophilosophical framework of Deleuze and Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus ([1980] 2013, London: Bloomsbury] and Hardt and Negri's analysis of the metropolis in Commonwealth (2009, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press). The …
Underclass’ and ‘ordinary people’ discourses: Representing/re-presenting council tenants in a housing campaign
This paper employs critical discourse analysis to examine discourses of council (public) housing tenants. It focuses upon one example of housing activism, a local campaign that mobilized in opposition to a proposed stock transfer of council housing in South East England. The hegemonic societal-wide discourse regarding council tenants is that they constitute a socially excluded ‘underclass’, as in New Labour urban policy and the mass media. In con…
Housing Histories and Fragmented Middle-class Careers: The Case of Marginal Professionals in London Council Housing
This paper contributes towards understanding the dynamics of employment and housing among the middle classes with reference to a study of ‘marginal professionals’ living in London council housing. Using employment and housing history data drawn from interviews with professionals who rented flats from Camden Council in inner London, it is argued that they constitute an economically marginal part of the new middle class, that section of the middle …
Austerity urbanism and Olympic counter-legacies: Gendering, defending and expanding the urban commons in East London
This article reflects on an occupation led by single mothers to contest the destruction of social housing in post-Olympics East London. In the process, it argues for a more gendered theorisation of the urban commons. Drawing on auto-ethnography, participant observation and qualitative interviews, the article argues three central points: First, that the occupation demonstrates the gendered nature of the urban commons and the leadership of women in…
Grafting, going to college and working on road: Youth transitions and cultures in an East London neighbourhood
The local neighbourhood has an enduring significance for British urban, working-class youth in relation to their transitions, cultures and leisure practices. This paper examines these interrelated issues by drawing upon ethnographic research undertaken in ‘Manor’, a deprived, multi-ethnic East London neighbourhood. It explores the transitions taken by black, white and mixed-parentage young males (and some of their female peers), transitions that …
This pain of moving, moving, moving: Evictions, displacement and logics of expulsion in London
Cet article propose de développer et de préciser empiriquement ce que Saskia Sassen a récemment nommé les « logiques d'expulsion ». Dans un contexte de crise du logement et de croissance de la population des sans-abri à Londres, l'article s'appuie sur des recherches approfondies menées sur les expulsions de logements et les déplacements de population vers des centres d'hébergement temporaire dans trois quartiers de Londres et de sa périphérie. Le…
Governmentality and 'the Death of the Social: A Discourse Analysis of Local Government Texts in South-east England
Writers from within the Foucauldian govern mentality school have characterised recent governmental trends, associated with neo-liberal political rationalities, as manifestations of the death of the collectivist and universalist character of the 'social'. However, the unfolding of these developments varies both between and within nation-states. Drawing upon a discourse analysis of two local government texts from a local authority district in south…
Going Out of Town: Youth, 'Race', and Place in the South East of England
In this paper I present findings from research on 'out-of-town' leisure destinations and activities by young people from different ethnic backgrounds living in a medium-sized town located in the Home Counties of the South East of England. The predominant way in which the spatialisation of 'race' is discussed in Britain is via the discourse of the 'inner city'. In contrast, the Home Counties' area of the South East has received little recognition …
Globalization, polarization and the informal sector: The case of paid domestic workers in London
Considerable debate has occurred over whether ‘global cities’ are witnessing polarization of their labour forces into highly paid professionals and low paid personal service workers. This paper offers evidence on paid domestic labour in London, some of which occurs in the informal sector, and considers its potential significance for the polarization debate
Displacement and estate demolition: Multi-scalar place attachment among relocated social housing residents in London
The forced relocation—displacement—of social housing residents resulting from estate regeneration involving demolition has been the subject of considerable academic and policy debate. While some scholars and policy makers regard such displacement as having harmful outcomes in relation to loss of homes and community relations, others argue that residents benefit from relocation as they move to ‘better places’. This paper contributes to this debate…
Gendering the right to housing in the city: Homeless female lone parents in post-Olympics, austerity East London
Urban Marginality and Labour Market Restructuring: Local Authority Tenants and Employment in an Inner London Borough
This paper examines the changing employment circumstances of local authority tenants in the inner London borough of Camden within the context of the radical labour market restructuring which occurred in London during the last third of the 20th century. It draws upon survey data from the 1960s and 1990s in order to assess the scale and impact of employment and housing changes on Camden's local authority tenant population. The final part of the pap…
Territorial Stigmatisation and Poor Housing at a London ‘Sink Estate’
This article offers a critical assessment of Loic Wacquant’s influential advanced marginality framework with reference to research undertaken on a London public/social housing estate. Following Wacquant, it has become the orthodoxy that one of the major vectors of advanced marginality is territorial stigmatisation and that this particularly affects social housing estates, for example via mass media deployment of the ‘sink estate’ label in the UK.…
The Consumption Sector Debate and Housing Mobility
This paper argues that in order to assess whether consumption sectors form meaningful social collectivities it is essential to consider patterns of housing mobility. Just as Goldthorpe has argued that a process of 'class formation' occurs when individuals tend to belong to the same class as their parents, so we argue that it is important to examine whether there is a process of 'tenure formation' where individuals have the same tenure as their pa…
Fear and loathing in north London: Experiencing estate regeneration as psychosocial degeneration
This article analyses residents' emotional responses to the regeneration - involving demolition and rebuilding - of West Hendon council housing estate in north London. Based on ethnographic research, the article outlines what living on the estate meant for its working-class residents in terms of providing ontological security and place belonging prior to regeneration. The reality of regeneration for residents involved multiple layers of physical,…
Pinch and Clark's Patter Merchanting and the Crisis of Sociology
This paper discusses Pinch and Clark's recent article on the strategies of market pitchers for managing local economic reasoning. We suggest that their research is illustrative of the lack of seriousness and relevance to social issues of a small proportion of sociological studies. In developing this argument, the paper considers the methodology, ethical issues and substantive content of the article. We conclude by noting that, whilst the study of…
The Consumption Sector Debate and Housing Mobility
This paper argues that in order to assess whether consumption sectors form meaningful social collectivities it is essential to consider patterns of housing mobility. Just as Goldthorpe has argued that a process of 'class formation' occurs when individuals tend to belong to the same class as their parents, so we argue that it is important to examine whether there is a process of 'tenure formation' where individuals have the same tenure as their pa…
Housing Inheritance and Social Inequality: A Rejoinder to Chris Hamnett
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Social Stratification and Housing Mobility
This paper examines the extent to which housing tenure constitutes an enduring aspect of social inequality in relation to theories of re-stratification and the supposed decline of social class divisions. It uses an analysis of housing mobility based upon a survey of council tenants carried out in the inner London Borough of Camden and it looks at the housing tenure destinations of the tenants' adult 'children' who have left the parental home. The…
Listening in Paris: A cultural history by James H. Johnson
Those of us with an interest in the culture and politics of French musical life in the nineteenth century have been very glad to see the publication of two books which cover specific aspects of the period. Katharine Ellis’ Music Criticism in Nineteenth-Century France: La Revue et Gazette Musicale de Paris, 1834-801 is a history of musical culture in Paris as revealed through the columns of Paris' more eminent music critics. James H. Johnson's Lis…
Going Out of Town: Youth, 'Race', and Place in the South East of England
In this paper I present findings from research on 'out-of-town' leisure destinations and activities by young people from different ethnic backgrounds living in a medium-sized town located in the Home Counties of the South East of England. The predominant way in which the spatialisation of 'race' is discussed in Britain is via the discourse of the 'inner city'. In contrast, the Home Counties' area of the South East has received little recognition …
Governmentality and 'the Death of the Social: A Discourse Analysis of Local Government Texts in South-east England
Writers from within the Foucauldian govern mentality school have characterised recent governmental trends, associated with neo-liberal political rationalities, as manifestations of the death of the collectivist and universalist character of the 'social'. However, the unfolding of these developments varies both between and within nation-states. Drawing upon a discourse analysis of two local government texts from a local authority district in south…
Discourses of Social Exclusion: An Analysis of Bringing Britain Together: A National Strategy for Neighbourhood Renewal
This paper provides a discursive analysis of the UK Government's Social Exclusion Unit report Bringing Britain together: a national strategy for neighbourhood renewal (SEU, 1998a). The methodology makes use of the three-fold categorization of discourses of social exclusion developed by Levitas (1998) with reference to contemporary British politics and social policy. This framework is used to interpret the ideological and political significance of…
Generality and the Need for More Focus
Globalization, polarization and the informal sector: The case of paid domestic workers in London
Considerable debate has occurred over whether ‘global cities’ are witnessing polarization of their labour forces into highly paid professionals and low paid personal service workers. This paper offers evidence on paid domestic labour in London, some of which occurs in the informal sector, and considers its potential significance for the polarization debate
Urban Marginality and Labour Market Restructuring: Local Authority Tenants and Employment in an Inner London Borough
This paper examines the changing employment circumstances of local authority tenants in the inner London borough of Camden within the context of the radical labour market restructuring which occurred in London during the last third of the 20th century. It draws upon survey data from the 1960s and 1990s in order to assess the scale and impact of employment and housing changes on Camden's local authority tenant population. The final part of the pap…
Musical Biography: Towards New Paradigms
Housing Histories and Fragmented Middle-class Careers: The Case of Marginal Professionals in London Council Housing
This paper contributes towards understanding the dynamics of employment and housing among the middle classes with reference to a study of ‘marginal professionals’ living in London council housing. Using employment and housing history data drawn from interviews with professionals who rented flats from Camden Council in inner London, it is argued that they constitute an economically marginal part of the new middle class, that section of the middle …
Respectability, Roughness and 'Race: Neighbourhood Place Images and the Making of Working-Class Social Distinctions in London
Housing has come to play an important role in demarcating the contours of social polarization in inner London, notably via the widening socio-spatial divide between an impoverished working class located in council housing estates and affluent home-owning gentrifiers. In mass media and policy discourses, the former are routinely represented as an unruly urban 'underclass', a representation that homogenizes council tenants and marginalizes their vo…
Understanding Social Inequality
Underclass’ and ‘ordinary people’ discourses: Representing/re-presenting council tenants in a housing campaign
This paper employs critical discourse analysis to examine discourses of council (public) housing tenants. It focuses upon one example of housing activism, a local campaign that mobilized in opposition to a proposed stock transfer of council housing in South East England. The hegemonic societal-wide discourse regarding council tenants is that they constitute a socially excluded ‘underclass’, as in New Labour urban policy and the mass media. In con…
Dance and Dancers in the Victorian and Edwardian Music Hall Ballet
On 11 January 1890, a critic by the name of ‘G.A.S.’ wrote in the newly founded liberal periodical, The Speaker, that the music hall was a ‘half-graceful, half-grotesque medley of spectacle and buffoonery ... [it] is in a condition of hopeless decline, and that its total disappearance from the English stage is only a question of a few more years‘. Yet to some of G.A.S.'s contemporaries, such as the emerging music critic Ernest Newman, the music h…
The Only Class in Town? Gentrification and the Middle-Class Colonization of the City and the Urban Imagination
This essay argues that Tom Slater's article makes several important points regarding what he rightly suggests is the disappearance of a critical edge from much of the recent gentrification literature. It explores one of these points in greater depth, i.e. the notion that the working class occupy a 'backstage' role vis-à-vis the analysis of gentrification. This is done via a discussion of gentrification and London's class structure in relation to …
Housing Stock Transfers, Regeneration and State-Led Gentrification in London
This article examines housing stock transfers from local authorities to registered social landlords in relation to regeneration and state-led gentrification in London. The article traces the inter-linkages between social rental housing provision, gentrification and neoliberalism. These inter-linkages are illustrated via an examination of the contestation over stock transfer and housing redevelopment in two New Deal for Communities regeneration sc…
Space, the City and Social Theory – By Fran Tonkiss
Grafting, going to college and working on road: Youth transitions and cultures in an East London neighbourhood
The local neighbourhood has an enduring significance for British urban, working-class youth in relation to their transitions, cultures and leisure practices. This paper examines these interrelated issues by drawing upon ethnographic research undertaken in ‘Manor’, a deprived, multi-ethnic East London neighbourhood. It explores the transitions taken by black, white and mixed-parentage young males (and some of their female peers), transitions that …
Living in an Oasis: Middle-Class Disaffiliation and Selective Belonging in an English Suburb
This paper aims to address the oft-mentioned dearth of research on the suburbs by examining processes of sociospatial segregation and middle-class disaffiliation in London's eastern suburban periphery. By drawing upon aspects of Bourdieu's theoretical framework, the paper shows how the home-owning, middle-class, largely white residents of the 'Woodlands' private housing estate attempted to shore up their threatened sense of exclusivity in relatio…
Philippine Alliance of Fisherfolk: Ecohealth Practitioners for Livelihood and Food Security
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Mapping narratives: The 1992 Los Angeles riots as a case study for narrative-based geovisualization
In this paper, I demonstrate that narrative-based geovisualization contributes to a broader understanding of complex social and inherently spatial phenomena, such as riots, when combined with other data. Past spatial scholarship on riots has analyzed point-distribution data representing damaged structures caused by fires and vandalism. Although this approach is insightful, the analysis of damaged structures engages with just one type of many othe…
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