David C Thorns
Biographic Data
| ID | 223997 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David C Thorns |
| GIVEN NAMES | David C |
| FAMILY NAME | Thorns |
| SIGNATURE | THORNS D C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Canterbury |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 615 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Temporary use and the onto-politics of ‘public’ space
Les différentes formes de savoir et l'adaptation des immigrés chinois qualifiés à la société du savoir néo-zélandaise
Bien qu’il soit largement admis que le savoir joue un rôle clé dans les activités économiques et la vie sociale des sociétés du savoir, notre compréhension de ce qui importe en la matière est souvent incomplète. Les caractéristiques explicites du savoir lui permettent d’être codifié, et donc diffusé à l’échelle mondiale. Cela peut avoir pour effet de réduire le savoir au seul savoir explicite. Cependant, les chercheurs attirent notre attention su…
Place, Identity and Everyday Life in a Globalizing World
Place, Identity and Everyday Life in a Globalizing World
Introduction PART I: ESTABLISHING A FRAMEWORK Place, Identity and Everyday Life Everyday Life in a Globalizing World PART II: ORGANIZING AND LIVING IN OUR EVERYDAY WORLDS Cities and Region Houses and Homes Virtual Places and Spaces Places of Consumption PART III: A FINITE WORLD? Sustaining the Places in which we Live Sustainable Housing, Neighbourhoods and Communities Conclusion: Urban and Rural Futures
Economic geography and island life: A contribution to debate
The possibility of new islands to be discovered/created is raised that might lead to a rethinking of the dominant paradigm within contemporary economics which could provide a richer basis for understanding the social, cultural and institutional context in which markets are embedded. Such an approach, it is argued, would allow a better understanding of the dynamics of change than that currently provided by neoclassical economics. The need for such…
Housing booms and changes to New Zealand housing affordability: The policy challenge
This paper examines the housing booms and changes to the levels of affordability within New Zealand over the period from 1991 to 2008. This has been a period of both booms and slumps in the housing market. In addition it has been a time of restructuring of housing support and macro-economic policy settings. The most recent has been one of the longest boom periods and has generated increasing concern for housing affordability given that the rate o…
Different forms of knowledge and new Chinese skilled immigrants' adaptation to New Zealand's knowledge society
Although it is widely accepted that knowledge plays a key role in the economic activities and social life of knowledge societies, our understanding of what counts as knowledge is often incomplete. The explicit features of knowledge enable it to be codified and thus disseminated globally. This can lead to all knowledge simply being reduced to explicit knowledge. However, scholars draw our attention to the unarticulated, contextualised or tacit dim…
Chapter 2 House and home: Methodology and methods for exploring meaning and structure
The social scientific and humanities literature on house and home continues to grow (Perkins, Thorns, & Winstanley, 2002a; Perkins, Thorns, Winstanley, & Newton, 2002b; King, 2004; Mallett, 2004; Blunt & Dowling, 2006; Gorman-Murray & Dowling, 2007). Researchers have interpreted home in a number of ways. For some, it represents a centre, a place in which possessions and display represent identity. For others it is the existential space of being w…
Real Estate Advertising and Intraurban Place Meaning: Real Estate Sales Consultants at Work
We examine the mediating role of real estate agency in the residential housing market with reference to intraurban place meaning. Our focus is on real estate advertising because it is the central mediating technique used by sales consultants to incorporate and extend the market activities of a range of actors whose interests and needs are intertwined in the interpretation and representation of people's houses and homes, and those parts of the cit…
The Role of Information Communications Technology in Retrieving Local Community
The article explores the decline in social connectivity and the questions of whether and how local populations can use information–communications technologies (ICTs) to help reconnect. At the center of this debate are problems in conceptualizing community in today's globalizing network society. As well as challenges to older ideas about community, these problems include the impacts of numerous contemporary societal and global pressures on communi…
Presenting and creating home: The influence of popular and building trade print media in the construction of home
In this paper we examine the ways New Zealanders connect with global and local discourses about the home, and in turn interpret and create their houses and homes, by engaging with print media such as lifestyle magazines and associated building trade literature. The paper is influenced by recent calls for more finely grained and nuanced interpretations of the interplay between the global and the local in the constitution of the everyday lived expe…
The Challenge of Doing Sociology in a Global World: The Case of Aotearoa/New Zealand
The article explores the challenges of globalization processes for the development of national sociologies and shows that a view from the 'edge' can aid our understanding of these global shifts and their articulation with local structures and practices of 'doing sociology'. The article identifies the close link between government and the development of sociology within Aotearoa/New Zealand as government has been the chief source of funds for both…
Moving House, Creating Home: Exploring Residential Mobility
This paper begins with a review of the residential mobility literature that arose out of housing and planning policy aimed at decreasing the negative effects of urban transience. The literature identified the range of factors influencing residential mobility, but Rossi's (1955) claim that mobility was a 'natural' outcome of life stage changes became the basis for the majority of this work. Most of this literature arose out of quantitative researc…
Gazing or Performing: Reflections on Urry's Tourist Gaze in the Context of Contemporary Experience in the Antipodes
This article develops a critique of aspects of Urry's 'tourist gaze' through an analysis of contemporary tourism in New Zealand. We argue that the metaphorical basis of the gaze seems to lie in the experience of tourism in Europe among particular classes of tourists. In that situation, tourists spend a considerable amount of time looking at historical landscapes and related interpretative sites/sights. By contrast, both international and domestic…
Policy Review Housing Policy in the 1990s-New Zealand a Decade of Change
The paper examines the 1990s as a decade of change within New Zealand's housing policies. The decade has seen a radical restructuring of both the public institutions and instruments designed to deliver housing assistance. The paper discusses both the nature of the reforms and their impact upon the housing opportunities of low income households. It also assesses whether they have created greater choice for low income households and increased or de…
House and Home and their Interaction with Changes in New Zealand's Urban System, Households and Family Structures
The place where we live is one of the key locales which shapes our sense of place and enables us to develop our sense of who we are. The paper explores the linkages between the literature on ?the home? and the meaning of place. We argue that ?homes? are special kinds of places and are socially constructed in a continual and changing process. Houses as material objects and homes as symbolic entities are shaped and reshaped by owners and tenants ov…
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Home, Home Ownership and the Search for Ontological Security
The central focus of this paper is the notion that the home can provide a locale in which people can work at attaining a sense of ontological security in a world that at times is experienced as threatening and uncontrollable. The paper builds on and develops the ideas of Giddens and Saunders on ontological security and seeks to break down and operationalise the concept and explore it through a set of empirical data drawn from interviews with a gr…
The Global Meets the Local: Tourism and the Representation of the New Zealand City
From the 1970s through the 1990s, rapid change has transpired within New Zealand. Accompanying the restructuring that has occurred has been a search for new economic opportunities for the cities. One avenue has been provided by tourism. The stimulus of international tourism, in particular, has resulted in the redevelopment of cities along new lines designed to capture an increasing proportion of this new form of economic activity. The author expl…
Meanings of home for older home owners
The meaning of home has been the subject of much recent debate. The paper explores this debate and uses empirical data from New Zealand to demonstrate that the meaning of home reflects specific sets of historical and social circumstances and is multi‐dimensional. Key features include home as a cultural value, the investment potential of home and the impacts of gender on the meanings attached to home and home life. The paper explores the meanings …
The role of housing inheritance in selected owner occupied societies (Britain, New Zealand, Canada)
The paper examines the debate regarding housing inheritance and its impact upon wealth transfers within selected owner occupier societies (Britain, New Zealand and Canada). The examination of current research data show how tenure changes and house price movements in the 1970s and 1980s have resulted in greater accumulation of wealth within owner occupied housing. This increase in wealth raises the question of the disbursement of such wealth on de…
Fragmenting Societies? A Comparative Analysis of Regional and Urban Development
Preface, 1. Introduction, 2. The New International Division of Labour, The Restructuring and fragmentation of Capitalism, 3. Economic and Employment Changes, 4. The Nation State, 5. Regions and Bargaining Power, 6. Restructuring of State Provision: Case Studies of Change, 7. Home Ownership and Consumption Sectors, 8. Localities, 9. Re-assessment, Bibliography, Index
The production of homelessness: From individual failure to system inadequacies
The paper is concerned with an exploration of images, definitions and debates about the nature of homelessness in capitalist societies, its causes and consequences. The paper begins by considering images of homelessness and whether homelessness is a private individual trouble or a public issue and the result of inadequacies not of individuals but of the housing system. The paper then reviews the debate over definitions of homelessness examining m…
The Impact of Homeownership and Capital Gains upon Class and Consumption Sectors
The debate about the impact of homeownership and capital gains upon class and consumption-sector formation is reviewed, from the work of Rex and Moore in 1967 to that of Saunders and Harris in 1988. A theme noted is that homeownership is seen as a base for class membership in the earlier work but by the most recent work this has shifted to a base for the formation of consumption sectors. Much of the debate has been centred upon the English case a…
New Solutions to Old Problems: Housing Affordability and Access within Australia and New Zealand
During the 1970s and 1980s the Australian and New Zealand economies have been passing through a period of restructuring. This has had important impacts upon the housing sector, leading to rises in house and land prices, in interest rates, and therefore in the costs of house purchase. Under these conditions a new agenda of housing issues has appeared concerning the affordability of housing and the continued access of modest and lower income househ…
Home, Home Ownership and the Search for Ontological Security
The central focus of this paper is the notion that the home can provide a locale in which people can work at attaining a sense of ontological security in a world that at times is experienced as threatening and uncontrollable. The paper builds on and develops the ideas of Giddens and Saunders on ontological security and seeks to break down and operationalise the concept and explore it through a set of empirical data drawn from interviews with a gr…
Moving House, Creating Home: Exploring Residential Mobility
This paper begins with a review of the residential mobility literature that arose out of housing and planning policy aimed at decreasing the negative effects of urban transience. The literature identified the range of factors influencing residential mobility, but Rossi's (1955) claim that mobility was a 'natural' outcome of life stage changes became the basis for the majority of this work. Most of this literature arose out of quantitative researc…
Gazing or Performing: Reflections on Urry's Tourist Gaze in the Context of Contemporary Experience in the Antipodes
This article develops a critique of aspects of Urry's 'tourist gaze' through an analysis of contemporary tourism in New Zealand. We argue that the metaphorical basis of the gaze seems to lie in the experience of tourism in Europe among particular classes of tourists. In that situation, tourists spend a considerable amount of time looking at historical landscapes and related interpretative sites/sights. By contrast, both international and domestic…
The implications of differential rates of capital gain from owner occupation for the formation and development of housing classes
Meanings of home for older home owners
The meaning of home has been the subject of much recent debate. The paper explores this debate and uses empirical data from New Zealand to demonstrate that the meaning of home reflects specific sets of historical and social circumstances and is multi‐dimensional. Key features include home as a cultural value, the investment potential of home and the impacts of gender on the meanings attached to home and home life. The paper explores the meanings …
Industrial Restructuring and Change in the Labour and Property Markets in Britain
This paper seeks to identify the interrelationships between the labour and property markets and the role of regions and the local state in Britain in order to assess their effects upon the structure of opportunities. The labour market changes over the postwar period have resulted in labour shedding in the older heavy industries and in mining and quarrying, leading to changes both in the composition and in the location of the work force. During th…
House and Home and their Interaction with Changes in New Zealand's Urban System, Households and Family Structures
The place where we live is one of the key locales which shapes our sense of place and enables us to develop our sense of who we are. The paper explores the linkages between the literature on ?the home? and the meaning of place. We argue that ?homes? are special kinds of places and are socially constructed in a continual and changing process. Houses as material objects and homes as symbolic entities are shaped and reshaped by owners and tenants ov…
Owner-Occupation: Its Significance for Wealth Transfer and Class Formation
Presenting and creating home: The influence of popular and building trade print media in the construction of home
In this paper we examine the ways New Zealanders connect with global and local discourses about the home, and in turn interpret and create their houses and homes, by engaging with print media such as lifestyle magazines and associated building trade literature. The paper is influenced by recent calls for more finely grained and nuanced interpretations of the interplay between the global and the local in the constitution of the everyday lived expe…
Policy Review Housing Policy in the 1990s-New Zealand a Decade of Change
The paper examines the 1990s as a decade of change within New Zealand's housing policies. The decade has seen a radical restructuring of both the public institutions and instruments designed to deliver housing assistance. The paper discusses both the nature of the reforms and their impact upon the housing opportunities of low income households. It also assesses whether they have created greater choice for low income households and increased or de…
Real Estate Advertising and Intraurban Place Meaning: Real Estate Sales Consultants at Work
We examine the mediating role of real estate agency in the residential housing market with reference to intraurban place meaning. Our focus is on real estate advertising because it is the central mediating technique used by sales consultants to incorporate and extend the market activities of a range of actors whose interests and needs are intertwined in the interpretation and representation of people's houses and homes, and those parts of the cit…
The Global Meets the Local: Tourism and the Representation of the New Zealand City
From the 1970s through the 1990s, rapid change has transpired within New Zealand. Accompanying the restructuring that has occurred has been a search for new economic opportunities for the cities. One avenue has been provided by tourism. The stimulus of international tourism, in particular, has resulted in the redevelopment of cities along new lines designed to capture an increasing proportion of this new form of economic activity. The author expl…
The Impact of Homeownership and Capital Gains upon Class and Consumption Sectors
The debate about the impact of homeownership and capital gains upon class and consumption-sector formation is reviewed, from the work of Rex and Moore in 1967 to that of Saunders and Harris in 1988. A theme noted is that homeownership is seen as a base for class membership in the earlier work but by the most recent work this has shifted to a base for the formation of consumption sectors. Much of the debate has been centred upon the English case a…
Temporary use and the onto-politics of ‘public’ space
The production of homelessness: From individual failure to system inadequacies
The paper is concerned with an exploration of images, definitions and debates about the nature of homelessness in capitalist societies, its causes and consequences. The paper begins by considering images of homelessness and whether homelessness is a private individual trouble or a public issue and the result of inadequacies not of individuals but of the housing system. The paper then reviews the debate over definitions of homelessness examining m…
New Solutions to Old Problems: Housing Affordability and Access within Australia and New Zealand
During the 1970s and 1980s the Australian and New Zealand economies have been passing through a period of restructuring. This has had important impacts upon the housing sector, leading to rises in house and land prices, in interest rates, and therefore in the costs of house purchase. Under these conditions a new agenda of housing issues has appeared concerning the affordability of housing and the continued access of modest and lower income househ…
New Zealand housing policy: Continuities and changes
The article reviews the development of New Zealand's housing policy from the early years of the present century when the foundations were laid for an interventionist social democratic‐style housing policy. This policy has increasingly come under pressure through changes within New Zealand's internal and external economy particularly during the 70s. In this decade and in the early 80s changes took place in the pattern of house building, the costs …
New Directions in Sociology
The Challenge of Doing Sociology in a Global World: The Case of Aotearoa/New Zealand
The article explores the challenges of globalization processes for the development of national sociologies and shows that a view from the 'edge' can aid our understanding of these global shifts and their articulation with local structures and practices of 'doing sociology'. The article identifies the close link between government and the development of sociology within Aotearoa/New Zealand as government has been the chief source of funds for both…
Community, Class, and Kinship-Bases for Collective Action within Localities
The relationship between community and class has largely been neglected. In this paper, this relationship is focused upon, and a model is developed which allows the identification of significant aspects of locality and class relationships. The model identifies three sets of relationships, those based on propinquity, those based on property, and those based on kinship, and argues that the basis of communion within a locality can be found within an…
New Directions in Sociology
The role of housing inheritance in selected owner occupied societies (Britain, New Zealand, Canada)
The paper examines the debate regarding housing inheritance and its impact upon wealth transfers within selected owner occupier societies (Britain, New Zealand and Canada). The examination of current research data show how tenure changes and house price movements in the 1970s and 1980s have resulted in greater accumulation of wealth within owner occupied housing. This increase in wealth raises the question of the disbursement of such wealth on de…
The Changing System of Rural Stratification
THE CHANGING SYSTEM OF RURAL STRATIFICATION: The recent concern among rural sociologists with the growing interconnection between 'rural' and 'urban' areas and the development of 'suburbia' and commuter villages has led to the questioning of the validity and usefulness of the rural-urban continuum and the concept of community. This study is concerned with a transitional area, i.e. one which is neither 'truly rural' or 'truly urban' and attempts t…
Housing booms and changes to New Zealand housing affordability: The policy challenge
This paper examines the housing booms and changes to the levels of affordability within New Zealand over the period from 1991 to 2008. This has been a period of both booms and slumps in the housing market. In addition it has been a time of restructuring of housing support and macro-economic policy settings. The most recent has been one of the longest boom periods and has generated increasing concern for housing affordability given that the rate o…
Suburban Values and the Urban System
The Changing System of Rural Stratification
THE CHANGING SYSTEM OF RURAL STRATIFICATION: The recent concern among rural sociologists with the growing interconnection between 'rural' and 'urban' areas and the development of 'suburbia' and commuter villages has led to the questioning of the validity and usefulness of the rural-urban continuum and the concept of community. This study is concerned with a transitional area, i.e. one which is neither 'truly rural' or 'truly urban' and attempts t…
Mobility of Farm Families
Nineteenth Century Cities: Essays in the New Urban History
Work and its Definition
Suburban Values and the Urban System
The Quest for Community: Social Aspects of Residential Growth
New Directions in Sociology
New Directions in Sociology
Cities Unlimited. The Sociology of Urban Development in Australia and New Zealand
Cities Unlimited: Studies in Society
The implications of differential rates of capital gain from owner occupation for the formation and development of housing classes
Owner-Occupation: Its Significance for Wealth Transfer and Class Formation
Industrial Restructuring and Change in the Labour and Property Markets in Britain
This paper seeks to identify the interrelationships between the labour and property markets and the role of regions and the local state in Britain in order to assess their effects upon the structure of opportunities. The labour market changes over the postwar period have resulted in labour shedding in the older heavy industries and in mining and quarrying, leading to changes both in the composition and in the location of the work force. During th…
The Land Racket, The Real Costs of Property Speculation
Community, Class, and Kinship-Bases for Collective Action within Localities
The relationship between community and class has largely been neglected. In this paper, this relationship is focused upon, and a model is developed which allows the identification of significant aspects of locality and class relationships. The model identifies three sets of relationships, those based on propinquity, those based on property, and those based on kinship, and argues that the basis of communion within a locality can be found within an…
Age Time and Calendar Time: Two Facets of the Residential Mobility Process
The paper begins with a review of some of the approaches which have in the past been adopted for the study of residential mobility. The limitations are then identified which arise from approaches which either concentrated upon the individual to the exclusion of the institutional context of mobility or, as is currently tending to happen, concentrate upon the institutional analysis to the exclusion of the individual actor. From this discussion an a…
New Zealand housing policy: Continuities and changes
The article reviews the development of New Zealand's housing policy from the early years of the present century when the foundations were laid for an interventionist social democratic‐style housing policy. This policy has increasingly come under pressure through changes within New Zealand's internal and external economy particularly during the 70s. In this decade and in the early 80s changes took place in the pattern of house building, the costs …
New Solutions to Old Problems: Housing Affordability and Access within Australia and New Zealand
During the 1970s and 1980s the Australian and New Zealand economies have been passing through a period of restructuring. This has had important impacts upon the housing sector, leading to rises in house and land prices, in interest rates, and therefore in the costs of house purchase. Under these conditions a new agenda of housing issues has appeared concerning the affordability of housing and the continued access of modest and lower income househ…
The production of homelessness: From individual failure to system inadequacies
The paper is concerned with an exploration of images, definitions and debates about the nature of homelessness in capitalist societies, its causes and consequences. The paper begins by considering images of homelessness and whether homelessness is a private individual trouble or a public issue and the result of inadequacies not of individuals but of the housing system. The paper then reviews the debate over definitions of homelessness examining m…
The Impact of Homeownership and Capital Gains upon Class and Consumption Sectors
The debate about the impact of homeownership and capital gains upon class and consumption-sector formation is reviewed, from the work of Rex and Moore in 1967 to that of Saunders and Harris in 1988. A theme noted is that homeownership is seen as a base for class membership in the earlier work but by the most recent work this has shifted to a base for the formation of consumption sectors. Much of the debate has been centred upon the English case a…
The role of housing inheritance in selected owner occupied societies (Britain, New Zealand, Canada)
The paper examines the debate regarding housing inheritance and its impact upon wealth transfers within selected owner occupier societies (Britain, New Zealand and Canada). The examination of current research data show how tenure changes and house price movements in the 1970s and 1980s have resulted in greater accumulation of wealth within owner occupied housing. This increase in wealth raises the question of the disbursement of such wealth on de…
Fragmenting Societies? A Comparative Analysis of Regional and Urban Development
Preface, 1. Introduction, 2. The New International Division of Labour, The Restructuring and fragmentation of Capitalism, 3. Economic and Employment Changes, 4. The Nation State, 5. Regions and Bargaining Power, 6. Restructuring of State Provision: Case Studies of Change, 7. Home Ownership and Consumption Sectors, 8. Localities, 9. Re-assessment, Bibliography, Index
Meanings of home for older home owners
The meaning of home has been the subject of much recent debate. The paper explores this debate and uses empirical data from New Zealand to demonstrate that the meaning of home reflects specific sets of historical and social circumstances and is multi‐dimensional. Key features include home as a cultural value, the investment potential of home and the impacts of gender on the meanings attached to home and home life. The paper explores the meanings …
The Global Meets the Local: Tourism and the Representation of the New Zealand City
From the 1970s through the 1990s, rapid change has transpired within New Zealand. Accompanying the restructuring that has occurred has been a search for new economic opportunities for the cities. One avenue has been provided by tourism. The stimulus of international tourism, in particular, has resulted in the redevelopment of cities along new lines designed to capture an increasing proportion of this new form of economic activity. The author expl…
Home, Home Ownership and the Search for Ontological Security
The central focus of this paper is the notion that the home can provide a locale in which people can work at attaining a sense of ontological security in a world that at times is experienced as threatening and uncontrollable. The paper builds on and develops the ideas of Giddens and Saunders on ontological security and seeks to break down and operationalise the concept and explore it through a set of empirical data drawn from interviews with a gr…
Sociology (29 works) · Political science (19 works) · Geography (15 works) · Economics (14 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (12 works) · Social science (11 works) · Economic geography (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Rural development and sustainability (8 works) · Business (7 works)