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This ethnographic study of a mixed-occupancy housing estate near
the centre of London refocuses the scholarly conversation around
social housing in the UK after the 1980 Housing Act. As well as
examining the long-term consequences of 'Right to Buy,' such as
shortages in local authority stock and neighbourhood
gentrification, James Rosbrook-Thompson and Gary Armstrong
investigate the changes wrought on the social fabric of the
individual estate. Drawing on four years of ethnographic fieldwork,
the authors explore the estate's social mix and, more specifically,
the consequences of owner-occupiers, council tenants and private
renters sharing a cramped inner-city neighbourhood. Mixed-Occupancy
Housing in London: A Living Tapestry humanizes the academic
discussion of class, race, and gender in social housing through the
occupants' tales of getting by, getting along and getting out.
This book combines historical and ethnographic components in
examining the ideas about human variation subscribed to by coaches,
commentators and sportspeople themselves. The book begins by
interrogating the idea of the 'impulsive' black sportsman (and the
'impulsive' black male more generally), documenting how it came
into being and gathered momentum throughout the course of British
history. Drawing on the work of Paul Gilroy and Ian Hacking, the
author then investigates whether such raciological ideas figure
within the everyday behaviours of a group of young footballers.
Presenting an original ethnographic study undertaken at Oldfield
United, a semi-professional football club situated in London, he
explores how raciological ideas (and other notions of human
variation) shape the self-understandings of the club's players and
thereby influence the possibilities for action available to them.
In conceptualising the sense of "feeling alien" experienced by club
personnel - in relation to mainstream discourses of nationhood, to
politics, to the basic functioning of the nation-state and, at
bottom, to the qualifications and requirements of British
citizenship - 'Sport, Difference and Belonging' challenges the
ability of the cosmopolitan tradition to make sense of contemporary
urban phenomena and seeks to develop the sociological concept of
denizenship. This book will be of interest to academics and
students in the fields of sociology and social policy, 'race' and
ethnic studies, urban studies, the ethnographic method, and the
sociology of sport. It may also appeal to politicians, policy
makers and those working in the field of 'race relations.'
This book combines historical and ethnographic components in
examining the ideas about human variation subscribed to by coaches,
commentators and sportspeople themselves. The book begins by
interrogating the idea of the 'impulsive' black sportsman (and the
'impulsive' black male more generally), documenting how it came
into being and gathered momentum throughout the course of British
history. Drawing on the work of Paul Gilroy and Ian Hacking, the
author then investigates whether such raciological ideas figure
within the everyday behaviours of a group of young footballers.
Presenting an original ethnographic study undertaken at Oldfield
United, a semi-professional football club situated in London, he
explores how raciological ideas (and other notions of human
variation) shape the self-understandings of the club's players and
thereby influence the possibilities for action available to them.
In conceptualising the sense of "feeling alien" experienced by club
personnel - in relation to mainstream discourses of nationhood, to
politics, to the basic functioning of the nation-state and, at
bottom, to the qualifications and requirements of British
citizenship - 'Sport, Difference and Belonging' challenges the
ability of the cosmopolitan tradition to make sense of contemporary
urban phenomena and seeks to develop the sociological concept of
denizenship. This book will be of interest to academics and
students in the fields of sociology and social policy, 'race' and
ethnic studies, urban studies, the ethnographic method, and the
sociology of sport. It may also appeal to politicians, policy
makers and those working in the field of 'race relations.'
This ethnographic study of a mixed-occupancy housing estate near
the centre of London refocuses the scholarly conversation around
social housing in the UK after the 1980 Housing Act. As well as
examining the long-term consequences of 'Right to Buy,' such as
shortages in local authority stock and neighbourhood
gentrification, James Rosbrook-Thompson and Gary Armstrong
investigate the changes wrought on the social fabric of the
individual estate. Drawing on four years of ethnographic fieldwork,
the authors explore the estate's social mix and, more specifically,
the consequences of owner-occupiers, council tenants and private
renters sharing a cramped inner-city neighbourhood. Mixed-Occupancy
Housing in London: A Living Tapestry humanizes the academic
discussion of class, race, and gender in social housing through the
occupants' tales of getting by, getting along and getting out.
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