London Calling: The Middle Classes and the Remaking of Inner LondonBerg Publishers, 2003 - 215 עמודים Symbolizing both commerce and culture, London has always been a magnet for the ambitions of the middle classes. However, the past three decades have witnessed a dramatic fragmentation in inner-city Londons social map. New and highly distinctive middle-class neighbourhoods have sprung up where embattled workers seek to combat the deleterious effects of long working hours, travel, and stress on traditional family values. This book is the first to explore the powerful impact of globalization on Londons economy and those who are caught up in it. More and more people are responding to the negative effects of working life as well as the lack of structure in their lives and particularly those of their children. The gentrification of certain areas and the differences among them directly reflects this desire to impose cultural values and structure on urban surroundings. How do these areas reflect middle-class values, ideologies, lifestyles, social backgrounds and occupational choices, and how have old neighbourhoods been refashioned and made amenable to middle-class life? In what ways has family life been affected by this new emphasis on values, structure and security, and what does the future hold? This fascinating book provides the first sustained analysis of the profound effects of globalization on city dwellers. Its original account of the relationship between urban space and cultural reproduction will inspire new research for years to come. |
תוכן
Marking Out the Middle Classes in London | 7 |
a Middleclass Coping Strategy? | 23 |
Spatial Difference and Strategic Middleclass Activity | 33 |
זכויות יוצרים | |
14 קטעים אחרים שאינם מוצגים
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
activity argued attractive Barnsbury London Dockland Battersea Barnsbury London become borough Bourdieu Brixton and London Brixton Battersea Barnsbury Butler cent centre chapter choice consumption infrastructure council cultural capital distinction diversity economic capital elsewhere employment ethnic feel forms gentrification gentrified areas global cities groups Hackney Herne Hill households housing market important income increasingly inner London interaction Isle of Dogs Islington issue Jenkins kids largely less lifestyle living locality London Dockland London Dockland Total London Fields metropolitan habitus middle middle-class move neighbourhood occupation Park particularly population primary school professionals relations relatively residents respondents Savage secondary school sector sense shops social capital social class social mix social networks social reproduction South London space spatial strategies street structure Study Area Surrey Quays symbolic capital Telegraph Brixton Battersea Telegraph Hill there's things Tulse Hill urban Wandsworth whilst working-class