Tenure mix

Apart or together? Home-making practices and belonging in a Dutch street

Bibliographic Data

ID12820106
AuthorsPeer Smets (0000-0001-9632-4592, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, corresponding author), Karin Sneep (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Year2015
Volume32
Issue1
Pages91-106
Publication date2015-11-07
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Housing and the Built Environment (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1566-4910 • E-ISSN: 1573-7772
PublisherSpringer Science+Business Media (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1007/s10901-015-9493-y
PMID29355209
OpenAlexW2135175032
LanguageEN
Citations received16
References cited43

This paper discusses home-making practices and senses of belonging in a street in a disadvantaged neighbourhood in the south of the Netherlands. The local tenure mix of tenants and owner-occupiers offers insight into the role class and ethnicity play in social mixing. Therefore, attention is paid to narratives and the informal organisation of different living spaces and territory-making practices. Here, the domestic space could be experienced as a vehicle of intimacy and sociability, or conversely as encouraging alienation. Such practices, in combination with length of stay result in mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion. The insights derived from this study will contribute to the theoretical discussion on home-making practices and belonging

Alienation · Disadvantaged · Economic growth · Ethnic group · Human geography · Inclusion (mineral · Narrative · Neighbourhood (mathematics · Political science · Public relations · Shared space · Social science · Sociology · Gender Studies · Homelessness and Social Issues · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Urban Planning and Governance

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