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Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 27-03-2020
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2011
Publisher: Elsevier
Date: 2012
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2004
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 28-01-2016
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 22-07-2023
DOI: 10.1177/00420980231181323
Abstract: In this article we identify spaces and built environments that have the effect of placing libertarian thinking in urban contexts, using the term ‘libertecture’ to refer to the way that these architectures convey principles of personal liberty and unfettered market activity. These ideas are thus embedded in cities via the design, architecture, management and function of an emerging array of buildings, districts and infrastructures. Locating our analysis in cultural political economy, we believe that these libertectures are important because of the way that they refract and lify isive ideas into the social spaces and thinking of residents and citizens. Whereas neoliberal urbanism was seen as undermining socially just cities, libertarian ideas lified by new built environments may presage more atomised, unequal and unsustainable urban conditions, potentially foreclosing the identification of more just alternatives and democratic forms. We offer a ‘catalogue’ of seven forms of libertecture: private cities, residential exits, portal spaces, fiscal lockers, pioneer exclaves, infinity spaces, and necrotectures. We conclude that the manifestation of libertarian thinking in spaces and city forms is an important object of study for urban studies as it considers challenges to inclusive and sustainable forms of urban governance.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2005
Publisher: Macmillan Education UK
Date: 2016
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2009
Publisher: Macmillan Education UK
Date: 2016
Publisher: Macmillan Education UK
Date: 2016
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-04-2009
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Date: 31-05-2017
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 14-09-2010
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 05-2004
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-2007
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 11-2003
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Publisher: Elsevier
Date: 2009
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Date: 2017
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 07-06-2013
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc.
Date: 2004
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-08-2020
Publisher: Alexandrine Press
Date: 16-09-2008
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 04-2018
Abstract: Growing concern about the impact of constant, mediated connection has often focused on the ways in which technologies contribute to a ubiquitous sense of presence and interaction, and the kind of invasion that this may represent to a sense of self and privacy. Discussion about information communication technologies is increasingly converging around the need for a deepened understanding of their effect on pace of life, methods of work, consumption, and wellbeing. Counter-narratives to overwhelming hyper-connectivity have emerged as a result of these changes. Using qualitative interview data from respondents recruited from across the globe, we focus on the strategies and worldviews of those who explicitly reject the use of any information communication technologies. Our participants relate how, to varying degrees, they have elected to avoid forms of immediate connection and what they identify as the deep advantages and therapeutic benefits of such ways of being. The article responds to rising social anxieties about being locked into information communication technology ecologies and the difficulty of opting out of corporate information-exchange systems. These concerns, we argue, are generating increasing interest in how to manage information communication technologies more effectively or to switch off altogether.
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Date: 31-05-2017
DOI: 10.2307/J.CTT1T898T0
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2002
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 2000
Abstract: The use of aggregate data to understand the linkages between gentrification and displacement has been considered problematic because of a lack of refinement or closeness to the nature of these processes as well as lacking the ability to 'track' displacees. This paper presents the results of pioneering work designed to overcome these problems by combining cross-sectional census data with spatially re-aggregated longitudinal census data (the Longitudinal Study). Using established approaches to measure gentrification, via proxy measures, and devising others for its potential displacees, the work demonstrates a displacement effect clustered around gentrified wards. Attempts are made to quantify flows of displacement relative to city-wide changes over the decade. The paper concludes that, although replacement and displacement are difficult to distinguish, displacement appears prevalent for certain groups and this requires further research initiatives to explore a process that is socially and psychologically harmful.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 04-2006
DOI: 10.1080/00420980600597806
Abstract: Residential segregation has often been seen as a significant and intractable urban problem. Empirical analyses have focused on the clustering and social impacts of concentrated deprivation and ethnicity, while explanations of segregation have generally looked at the role of income, housing markets, and wider social and institutional discrimination. This paper attempts to build on such preoccupations by considering current urban transformations to theorise the recent middle-class colonisation of cities in the UK. Segregation is seen here not just as the concentration of an urban poor or particular ethnic groups, but also as representing an extended spatial bifurcation between the choices of the affluent to withdraw into increasingly insulated enclaves, while places of poverty contain populations away from this increasingly fearful, yet tendentiously urbanising, middle class. Using a series of case studies, a typology is developed of increasing disaffiliation as a prelude to a further debate on the feasibility of encouraging social ersity in the city.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 14-10-2008
Publisher: Macmillan Education UK
Date: 2016
Publisher: Macmillan Education UK
Date: 2016
Publisher: Macmillan Education UK
Date: 2016
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 10-03-2022
DOI: 10.1093/BJC/AZAC010
Abstract: Spatially designated economic zones render countries vulnerable to crime and harm, while simultaneously diffusing and escalating these problems across the globe. Yet, criminological analysis of special economic zones (SEZs) and similar areas remains limited. This article analyses the kinds of criminality and harm attached to such fiscal and commodity enclaves. Our analysis begins with the history of SEZs. We then offer a typology of related harms: 1. illicit trade 2. the protection of wealth holdings and 3. environmental harm. Our closing theoretical discussion suggests how the expansion of economic strategies involving SEZs is generative of new and complex forms of harm and crime embedded in the spatial architecture of the global economy.
Publisher: Macmillan Education UK
Date: 2016
Publisher: Macmillan Education UK
Date: 2016
Publisher: Macmillan Education UK
Date: 2016
Publisher: Macmillan Education UK
Date: 2016
Publisher: Macmillan Education UK
Date: 2016
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Date: 2006
DOI: 10.1332/030557306775212179
Abstract: How does regeneration affect health and how have successive urban policy evaluations sought to measure such impacts? This article draws on a systematic review of nationallevel evaluation documentation relating to government-funded, area-based regeneration initiatives in the UK since 1980. The review examined whether health impacts had been intended and, if so, how they had been measured. The process and difficulties of conducting the review raise significant questions about policy formulation and evaluation. Is evidence-based policy possible where evaluations are not stored centrally? In short, a model policy development as ‘enlightened’ or incremental is hard to sustain where a lack of systematic storage of data means that researchers, policy makers and practitioners may struggle to produce clear answers to important policy questions.
Publisher: Macmillan Education UK
Date: 2005
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 26-01-2017
Abstract: This paper considers the influence of the burgeoning global ‘super-rich’ on contemporary socio-spatialization processes in London in the light of a contemporary re-reading of Pahl’s classic volume, Whose City? It explores if a turn to ‘big data’ – in the form of commercial geodemographic classifications – can offer any additional insights to a sociological approach to the study of the ‘super-rich’ that extends the ‘spatialization of class’ thesis further ‘up’ the class structure.
Publisher: Macmillan Education UK
Date: 2016
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2008
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 25-07-2022
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Date: 19-05-2004
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2007
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 29-12-2014
DOI: 10.1093/BJC/AZU101
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-0001
Publisher: Elsevier
Date: 2020
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 12-2002
DOI: 10.1080/0042098022000027031
Abstract: A logistic regression model of in idual neighbourhood dissatisfaction was developed using data from the 1997/98 Survey of English Housing. Housing satisfaction and the general appearance of the neighbourhood were closely associated with neighbourhood dissatisfaction, although perceptions of noise, friendliness, community spirit, schools and crime were also important. Although sociodemographic factors were much less important than residential perceptions in helping to predict dissatisfaction, the type of neighbourhood remained a significant independent predictor of dissatisfaction even when residents' views were taken into account. Some factors were more important in different areas: in particular, residents in less affluent areas were more sensitive to unfriendliness and crime. There were also indications that owner-occupiers were less satisfied in areas where they had a lower tenure share. The paper concludes that neighbourhood policies with a broad spectrum of goals are required, that pay careful attention to residents' own assessments of local conditions.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-06-2010
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 07-2009
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 29-01-2016
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 18-06-2015
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-11-2021
Publisher: Policy Press
Date: 19-05-2004
Publisher: BMJ
Date: 02-2006
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 12-08-2015
Publisher: No publisher found
Date: 2018
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2007
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 07-04-2017
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 09-2007
DOI: 10.1080/00420980701471901
Abstract: Sound provides an often-ignored element of our conceptualisation of the urban fabric. The power of music, sound and noise to denote place and demarcate space is used here to develop the idea of a sonic ecology. The paper attempts to map the relative order of this unseen city and to theorise its spatial and temporal patterning. The sonic ecology, a relatively persistent and chronologically ordered quality to sound in urban space, is used as a means of examining the distribution of sound and to weigh the broader social impact of these qualities. The ambient soundscape of the street is made up of a shifting aural terrain, a resonant metropolitan fabric, which may exclude or subtly guide us in our experience of the city, thus highlighting an invisible yet highly affecting and socially relevant area of urban enquiry.
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 14-11-2022
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Date: 2000
Abstract: There is interest within the social exclusion debate about the extent to which people in deprived social housing estates are socially isolated and their material disadvantages reinforced by exclusion from job opportunities and inward-looking and negative social norms. One approach to this problem has been the introduction of a social mix through the development of new housing for owneroccupation. Through interviews with and diaries kept by residents in three Scottish estates this article charts residents’ networks and assesses the potential for owner-occupation to ‘reconnect’ existing residents with society beyond the local neighbourhood. The article concludes that owners and renters in regeneration areas largely inhabit different social worlds and that the introduction of owner-occupation makes little difference to renters’ networks. Policy implications include the need to meet the housing aspirations of homeowners in these areas, and the effects of promoting largescale commercial developments based on heavy car use in towns and cities.
Publisher: Policy Press
Date: 19-07-2006
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 04-11-2022
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 11-2001
DOI: 10.1080/00420980120087162
Abstract: This paper focuses on the question of whether it is worse to be poor in a poor area or in an area which is more socially mixed in short, does living in a deprived area compound the disadvantage experienced by its residents, and do area effects contribute to social exclusion? The idea of social areas having direct or mediated effects on the lives of their residents continues to interest and challenge academic and policy debates on the effect of concentrated poverty and on the creation of more mixed and, thereby, more sustainable neighbourhood forms. However, area effects remain contentious and British research evidence is scant. Following a review of the theoretical and empirical understandings of the relationship between households and neighbourhoods, the paper presents survey data from a comparative study of deprived and socially mixed neighbourhoods in Glasgow and Edinburgh. These data provide evidence that supports the area effects thesis, in particular in relation to area reputation and employment. The paper concludes that, with certain caveats, living in areas of geographically concentrated poverty creates additional problems for residents.
Publisher: Sheffield Hallam University
Date: 29-07-2016
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 08-2003
DOI: 10.1080/0042098032000106627
Abstract: This paper explores some of the more extreme tendencies in the management of public space to consider whether current policy directions, in this case in central Scotland, are driven by a desire to empower or control users of such spaces. The title of the paper is taken from the theoretical lenses provided by Neil Smith and Sharon Zukin in their differential views on trends in the management and control of public spaces. The paper focuses on two local case studies to examine the possibility that a `revanchist' element is emerging in policies towards public spaces in Britain. The paper concludes that programmes designed to deal with urban and public space are a reaction to both real and perceived problems. However, there has been a privileging of a policy discourse which celebrates the displacement of social problems rather than their resolution. It is argued that such a discourse cannot ultimately provide sustainable policies for the regulation of public spaces and threatens the inclusion of some users of public spaces who may not be considered to be legitimate patrons. While this does more to foster fearful than inclusive public spaces, a thorny question remains over whether some degree of exclusion is a necessary price for policies which seek to secure public space and maintain a wider quality of life.
Publisher: Policy Press
Date: 14-03-2023
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Date: 04-12-2016
DOI: 10.7228/MANCHESTER/9781784995300.001.0001
Abstract: Domestic Fortress offers a critical analysis of the contemporary home and its close relationship to fear and security. It considers the important connection between the private home, political life and the economy that we term tessellated neoliberalism . The book considers the nucleus of the domestic home as part of a much larger archipelago frontline of homes and gated communities that appear as a new home front set against erse sources of social anxiety. These range from questions of invasion (such as burglary or identity theft) to those of security (the home as a financial resource in retirement and as a place of refuge in an unpredictable world). A culture of fear has been responded to through increasingly emphatic retreats by homeowners into fortified dwellings, palatial houses, concealed bunker pads and gated developments. Many feature elaborate security measures alarms, CCTV systems, motion-sensing lights and impregnable panic rooms. Domestic Fortress locates the anxieties driving these responses to the corporate and political manufacturing of fear, the triumph of neoliberal models of homeownership and related modes of social in idualisation and risk that permeate society today. Domestic Fortress draws on perspectives and research from criminology, urban studies and sociology to offer a sense of the private home as a site of wavering anxiety and security, exclusion and warmth, alongside dreams of retreat and autonomy that mesh closely with the defining principles of neoliberal governance. Even as the home is acknowledged to play a vital role in sheltering us from the elements so it has now come to be a locus around which many anxieties are shut-out. The home allows us to lock out the daily hardships of life, but is also a site from which we witness a wide range of troubling phenomena: the insecurities of the workplace, plans for our future welfare, internationalized terror, geo-political warfare, ecological catastrophes, feelings of loss and uncertainty around identity, to say nothing of the daily risks of flood, fire and other disasters. The home now plays a complex dual role that slips between offering us protection from these worries while also offering the nightmare of its own possible invasion, erosion or destruction. On top of these concerns entire industries have been built that sell a war against strangers, dirt and disaster. This of course includes the insurance industry itself, but also the use of technologies that both protect the home and make it effectively more impregnable to casual social contact as well as the proliferation of products devoted to domestic cleanliness. Domestic Fortress considers the fantasies and realities of dangers to the contemporary home and its inhabitants and details the wide range of actions taken in the pursuit of total safety.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2009
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 2000
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 2009
Publisher: Policy Press
Date: 29-03-2006
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 30-04-2019
Abstract: Taking as our focus the city of London over the last decade, we use state-held records of house sales to consider the impact of competition for housing resources in the luxury property market. This data suggests that the use of offshore investment vehicles and the concealment of wealth from national tax agencies have become key mechanisms by which housing resources have been exploited by the wealthy and their capital deployed by agents of the rich. Using the concept of wealth chains, we consider these methods of capital accumulation as these extending flows of managed capital become ‘anchored’ within specific urban spaces, in this case the luxury housing market of inner West London. Our analysis of a selection of these chains shows that the prevailing political management of the property economy benefits those already winning the war of inequality while looking to augment their capital and shield it from tax and regulation. The ultra-wealthy, financial intermediaries and multinational corporations have created chains articulated across space, with the effect of undermining the value of dwellings as homes, and have replaced them with assets to be traded in pursuit of private and offshore wealth gains. The result is an urban context that favours already advantaged and powerful interests and enables the avoidance of tax obligations desperately needed at a time of austerity and intense housing need.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 17-11-2016
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 2015
DOI: 10.1068/A140214P
Abstract: Due to the increasing spatial dispersion of social networks, the association between neighbor relationships and quality of life has become more uncertain. Our analysis used instrumental variable modelling to reduce bias associated with residual confounding and reverse causation, in order to provide a more reliable examination of the effect of interaction with neighbors on subjective well-being than previous work. While the frames of reference for in iduals' socialising may have shifted outside the neighborhood, our analysis provides robust evidence that interaction with neighbors still matters a great deal for subjective well-being. A further important question to ask is if neighboring does affect well-being, then are there certain groups in society for whom contact with neighbors matters more? Our analysis suggests that there are, namely for those in a relationship, unemployed or retired. This means that while fostering contact with neighbors has the potential to significantly improve in idual well-being, such policy efforts are likely to matter a good deal more in neighborhoods with relatively large numbers of geographically constrained social groups, such as the elderly and the unemployed.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-2009
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 03-2004
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-2009
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 13-09-2013
Publisher: Macmillan Education UK
Date: 2016
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 04-12-2017
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 07-2004
Abstract: This article looks at perceptions of the link between residential location and life chances. The idea of ‘area effects’ suggests that people’s prospects for social engagement and economic activity are related to the neighbourhood where they live. It permeates social and urban policy as well as theories of deprivation and social exclusion. However, while quantitative evidence on area effects has begun to suggest that such a link exists, there has been little evidence using qualitative data and no contrast between the social patterns of life in deprived and more socially erse areas. In response to these concerns, this article uses data from in-depth interviews with practitioners and voluntary workers in both deprived and socially erse neighbourhoods to throw more light on how the linkages between area of residence and life chances are understood locally. The article concludes that experiences of deprivation may be more entrenched and fatalistic in deprived areas in response to a range of perceived negative impacts of area on social action and engagement. However, this general position is also contradictory and fragmented depending on social position within the locale. The article concludes by drawing out these ideas in terms of how the experience and reproduction of poverty are theorized.
Publisher: Policy Press
Date: 11-07-2007
Publisher: Policy Press
Date: 19-05-2004
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 25-10-2018
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 15-03-2022
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-2000
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2003
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 04-11-2022
Publisher: Policy Press
Date: 11-07-2007
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 22-09-2016
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Date: 12-2005
DOI: 10.3828/TPR.76.4.3
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 25-07-2012
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Date: 04-11-2016
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 11-2008
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Date: 04-12-2016
DOI: 10.7228/MANCHESTER/9781784995300.003.0009
Abstract: Finding a way out from these forces is difficult to imagine precisely because a range of political and corporate entrepreneurs draw profits from fear – developers selling gated communities, politicians arguing for tough law enforcement and private security companies with an increasingly sophisticated array of technologies designed to help seal the home. We conclude that while these designs have indeed helped to secure the home there has not been any significant reduction in social fear as a idend to these activities, indeed the evolution of this position of the home suggests its presence as an increasingly anti-social and counter-civic moment in advanced capitalist society, one that will be highly difficult to unravel.
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Date: 04-12-2016
DOI: 10.7228/MANCHESTER/9781784995300.003.0007
Abstract: Here we discuss the balance of responsibility between the state and the in idual homeowner to protect the home, against the background of a lack of confidence in governments' ability to prevent crime and the rising sense of victimhood in popular culture and criminal justice systems. The focus of this chapter is on the legal position of the homeowner who uses lethal force in defence of their home. Illustrated by high-profile cases, developments in the law on defence and revenge are analysed and comparisons are made between the US, the UK and Australia.
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Date: 04-12-2016
DOI: 10.7228/MANCHESTER/9781784995300.003.0008
Abstract: Homes and entire neighbourhoods are increasingly organised around defensive principles, the rise of gated homes and the domestic fortress itself are architectural motifs that have become normalised in many suburbs and districts. Taken together these shifts mean that a more prickly and defended form of homeownership has arisen in which the result is the endgame of a neoliberalism that penetrates the innermost civic and domestic spheres of our lives.
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Date: 04-12-2016
DOI: 10.7228/MANCHESTER/9781784995300.003.0005
Abstract: This chapter focuses on fear of crime, and particularly on the fear of home invasion (burglary). It links back to the ways in which we are taught to fear in our childhood homes, and the contemporary forces which continue to boost the perceived need for home defence. Data on burglary rates and fear of crime are deconstructed, and the interconnected roles of the media and of government in feeding fear are analysed. We suggest that the news media's singular focus on rare and horrific events have a cumulative and traumatic effect on our perceptions of the relative safety of the home. The chapter also looks at the treatment of the home, crime and fear in popular culture, through fiction, films and videogames which highlight terrorised occupants and invaded homes.
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Date: 04-12-2016
DOI: 10.7228/MANCHESTER/9781784995300.003.0006
Abstract: Defence has always been a primary element in home design this chapter traces the ebbs and flows of fortification over time, tracing back the contemporary alternative features of withdrawal and aggressive defence to their origins. These responses, mirroring the well-known 'flight or fight' reactions, are illustrated through reference to celebrity homes and incidents of crimes against them. Here we address the technologies and architectural features which are designed to counter the risks that assail the home as haven and the fears passed on from parents which inform our internalised expectations as adults. Diverse forms of home protection and insurance have become the central and non-negotiable demands of increasingly affluent western societies, and meeting these demands has boosted the profits of security companies. We argue that the recent increase in defensive technologies has turned homes into the architectural representation of our fears, from which we can never be truly free. We now fear to stop fearing, with the contemporary homeowner forever in a state of heightened anxiety.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 07-09-2023
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Date: 04-12-2016
DOI: 10.7228/MANCHESTER/9781784995300.003.0003
Abstract: This chapter considers the meaning and importance of more psychological aspects of the private home. Homeownership has been argued to provide us with a deep sense of security of being in troubled times, when trust in community has been lost. Psychoanalytic and sociological theories of consumption practices are used here to examine the role of psychic development as it occurs within the home. Two functions of the home in particular are examined here, illustrated through fairy stories, fiction and films. First, the home's role as a bridge or mediator to the public world outside the home, meaning that a child's preparation for the outside world is largely dependent on parental perceptions of risk and insecurity. Second, the private (fearful) world inside what Freud termed the unheimlich home, hiding dreadful secrets. The current emphasis on control of outsiders' access to the home, and the developing culture of respecting others' homes as entirely private places, may make the home a domestic prison for its less powerful residents: women and children. Feminist analyses of the development of gender roles in the home and data on domestic violence show the dark underbelly of the sanctified private home. Although some homes are havens, others can be the site of domestic slavery and even more disturbing ex les of power and abuse, such as Fred West, and the imprisonment of Fritzl's daughter in Austria and Jaycee Dugard in the US.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 31-08-2010
Abstract: In this article we argue that spatial distance and historic socio-ethnic boundaries play a critical role in determining the relative priority given to groups that are marginally placed. These priorities are materialized through law. We utilize theories that understand ‘reality’ as something socially constructed: our impressions of the structure of everyday life are mediated in large part by our primary social group interactions. We profile the spatial distribution and relative segregation of Indigenous Australians, from urban to remote regional contexts. Our data highlights how even a predominantly urban Indigenous population remains out of the sight and mind of social and political actors due to its small numerical size and perceived social difference. We move to explain public policy formulation in terms of orientations that are influenced by the spatiality of social affiliations. We suggest that the spatially-bounded patterning of black and white lives supports the continued burial of Indigenous life. The socio-spatial construction of Indigenous life for white and other Australians has enabled both aggressive and neglectful policy instruments in which Aboriginal life appears as something that is politically, legally and spatially marginal.
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Date: 04-12-2016
DOI: 10.7228/MANCHESTER/9781784995300.003.0004
Abstract: This chapter focuses on the risks that are perceived to threaten the home. Not only do problems like burglary loom large in a fearful public imagination, contemporary life presents us with new problems and terrors which may invade the home, for ex le identity theft, predatory paedophiles, telesales and so on. The longstanding legal importance of boundaries indicates the difficulties of ensuring control over the undisturbed privacy of the home. The chapter discusses the extent to which homeownership can ensure absolute control, as against the powers of the state as well as against neighbours and varied invasions of privacy.
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Date: 04-12-2016
DOI: 10.7228/MANCHESTER/9781784995300.003.0001
Abstract: Introduces the argument that in the early twenty first century the private home has become a key battleground in a social politics focused on fear, pre-emptive action and architectural fortification. Films, books, fairytales and myths are explored to underline the central importance of the home. Layers of complex and contested meanings have accreted over the basic need for shelter. The role of the home in providing haven, status and privacy, boosted today by celebrity culture, has longstanding philosophical and legal justifications. These have become embedded in everyday life, and their importance is shown through the use of metaphors emphasising the home as a kind of fortress space. We outline the idea that growing rates of homeownership in the UK, the US and Australia, encouraged by neoliberal governments, have led to a perception of housing as wealth rather than as ‘home’. At the same time the concept of a risk society has led to a widespread culture of fear, provoking a withdrawal into the home and an emphasis on control as the primary attribute of legal ownership.
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2019
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Date: 04-12-2016
DOI: 10.7228/MANCHESTER/9781784995300.003.0002
Abstract: This chapter paints in some of the background to the process by which the contemporary fortress home has become normalised. Social changes in the second half of the twentieth century have accompanied a shift from more communal ways of life and collective responses to risk and insecurity, to much more in idual perspectives. Neoliberal governments have complemented this trajectory with policies designed to encourage ownership, a project advantaged by engendering a fear of crime. However, at the same time as owners have come to see their homes as commodified financial assets, the state has increasingly withdrawn its guarantee to protect households from crime and disorder. This has meant that the home has taken on the role of assuring the survival of the familial unit against an ongoing assault on public systems of assistance. The need to defend this asset / haven is further exaggerated by media accounts of the elaborate security measures employed to protect the homes of celebrities and the wealthy, which feed perceptions of home as both a site of vulnerability, and of prestige and status.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 11-09-2018
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2009
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2004
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Date: 31-05-2017
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Date: 2017
Location: Mexico
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Start Date: 2014
End Date: 2016
Funder: Australian Research Council
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End Date: 12-2011
Amount: $184,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
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End Date: 11-2017
Amount: $377,000.00
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