Paul Watt
Biographic Data
| ID | 5225804 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Watt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Watt |
| SIGNATURE | WATT P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Birkbeck, University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9197-4473 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 57 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 626 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 52 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 15 |
London's Enduring Housing Problem
Commentary
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 ...
We are being squeezed out’: Studentification, working-class displacement and resistance in Hulme, Manchester
This paper examines the nature of ‘studentification’ in Hulme, an inner-city area of Manchester, and how this process is responded to by working-class residents of the neighbourhood. We pay particular attention to the building of purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA), which we characterise as a distinctive ‘second stage’ of studentification which, following Baldwin (2021. In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our …
Special Feature: Putting urban displacement in its place
This paper offers a critical analysis of urban displacement and acts as an introduction to the Special Feature: ‘Putting urban displacement in its place’. It begins by noting the magnitude and significance of displacement, and summarises its constituent components. Drawing upon the work of Hirsh, Eizenberg and Jabareen [2020. “A New Conceptual Framework for Understanding Displacement: Bridging the Gaps in Displacement Literature between the Globa…
Edward J. Dent: A Life of Words and Music . Karen Arrandale
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,…
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 …
The Oxford Handbook of Music and Intellectual Culture in the Nineteenth Century
This Handbook provides a forum for consolidated interdisciplinary discussion on intellectual culture in the “long” nineteenth century highlights and focuses its innovative methodological potential for the areas of musicology, literary and historical studies. In particular, the collection challenges the work-centred focus of Western music history by treating writings about music as cultural artefacts of substantive importance—rather than mere supp…
Oxford Handbook of Music and Intellectual Culture in the Nineteenth Century
Life and Death of London's Council Estates: From Social Housing to Social Cleansing in a Global City
Science and Religion
While nineteenth-century science and religion are commonly portrayed as being at war, this chapter uses musical contexts to test an alternative hypothesis: that science and religion were in fact compatible. It does that by tracking Anglo-European ideological changes in scientific and religious discourse, and explaining how music absorbed and reflected those changes across intellectually reciprocal environments. An introductory section outlines ke…
Gendering the right to housing in the city: Homeless female lone parents in post-Olympics, austerity East London
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…
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…
Suburbanization
Suburbanization refers to the sociospatial process whereby cities expand outwards beyond their original central areas via the formation of suburbs. Suburbs are peripheral areas lying beyond a city's boundaries, but which are interconnected to the city economically and socially, for example, via commuting. Suburbanization typically involves building new homes for either sale or rent, combined with residential mobility whereby people leave the city…
Cheap Print and Popular Song in the Nineteenth Century: A Cultural History of the Songster
The Prefaces to Songsters: The Law, Aesthetics, Performers and Their Reputations
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London 2012 and the Post-Olympics City
This book brings together a body of new research which looks both backwards and forwards to consider how far the London 2012 Olympic legacy has been delivered and how far it has been a hollow promise
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 …
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
Special Feature: Putting urban displacement in its place
This paper offers a critical analysis of urban displacement and acts as an introduction to the Special Feature: ‘Putting urban displacement in its place’. It begins by noting the magnitude and significance of displacement, and summarises its constituent components. Drawing upon the work of Hirsh, Eizenberg and Jabareen [2020. “A New Conceptual Framework for Understanding Displacement: Bridging the Gaps in Displacement Literature between the Globa…
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…
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,…
Housing Inheritance and Social Inequality: A Rejoinder to Chris Hamnett
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Restricting the Public in Public Space: The London 2012 Olympic Games, Hyper-Securitization and Marginalized Youth
In contrast to Olympic organizers' claims about the London 2012 Games as a celebration for all, we recount the experiences of low-income and marginally housed young people as experiencing exclusion from the benefits of the Games being held in their neighbourhood. Drawing on qualitative methods with young people living in the ethnically diverse and economically deprived Olympic host borough of Newham, we focus on public space and its limitations i…
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…
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…
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
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…
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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…
Seeing Olympic effects through the eyes of marginally housed youth: Changing places and the gentrification of East London
This paper examines the impact of the 2012 London Summer Olympics on low-income and marginally housed young people living in the London borough of Newham – one of six east London 'Olympic boroughs'. Drawing on photo-journals created by the youth the summer before the Olympic Games were scheduled to begin (July 2011), the research makes use of photo-elicitation techniques in order to explore such Olympic-related impacts as gentrification, displace…
Thomas A.Hutton2008: The New Economy of the Inner City: Restructuring, Regeneration and Dislocation in the Twenty‐first‐century Metropolis. Abingdon, New York: Routledge
Debating how cities differ from one another is a popular parlour game these days.Any silence at a dinner table can be bridged by starting a sentence such as 'Since I have moved away from Berlin, I miss . ..' or 'London is such an optimistic city, a lot more so than . ..'.Then the discussion takes off.It essentially revolves around the question of how to characterize cities and it confirms what everyone knows and what unmistakably comes out in the…
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 …
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 …
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