Communicide

The destruction of a vibrant public housing community in inner Sydney through a forced displacement

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2399485
AutoresAlan Morris (0000-0001-7652-5370, University of Technology Sydney, autor correspondente)
Ano2019
Volume55
Fascículo2
Páginas270-289
Data de publicação2019-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Sociology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1440-7833 • E-ISSN: 1741-2978
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1440783318815307
OpenAlexW2904144189
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas14
Referências citadas26

In 2014, the New South Wales government announced that all of the 465 public housing tenants in Millers Point in inner Sydney, are to be relocated and their homes sold. This article, drawing on 41 semi-structured interviews with tenants who were residents at the time of the announcement, has two main aims. First, to contribute to the debate as to the continuity or otherwise of community in a global city in late modernity by closely examining the sense of community among the public housing tenants in Millers Point at the time of the displacement announcement. The second aim is to examine what I have termed 'communicide'. I argue that the displacement policy directed at Millers Point public housing tenants can be described as an act of communicide as it destroyed a vibrant community causing tremendous dislocation and stress. After the move, many tenants found themselves deeply isolated

Displacement (psychology) · Economic growth · Economics · Gentrification · Government (linguistics) · Point (geometry) · Political economy · Political science · Public housing · Public policy · Sociology · Homelessness and Social Issues · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Public Administration · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies