Globalization and the Politics of Place: Place and Identity in an Inner London Neighbourhood Export

@article{citeulike:5979414, abstract = {Recent years have seen a growing theoretical literature concerned with delineating the politics of place. Drawing upon interviews conducted with a range of white residents in an inner London neighbourhood, the paper opens these debates to empirical analysis. Attention is focused on the understandings of some of the area's new cultural class residents who are working to construct an image of the area's essential 'Englishness' whilst, at the same time, articulating a desire for diversity and difference. It is suggested that their accounts demonstrate neither a clearly 'bounded' sense of place nor yet anything more progressive, and their understandings are compared to those of their working class neighbours to consider how the politics of race and class intersect in the construction of place identities.}, author = {May, Jon}, citeulike-article-id = {5979414}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/622933}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/622933}, doi = {10.2307/622933}, issn = {00202754}, journal = {Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers}, keywords = {1005, globalization, london, placeandspace}, number = {1}, pages = {194--215}, posted-at = {2009-10-21 12:20:28}, priority = {2}, publisher = {Blackwell Publishing on behalf of The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers)}, series = {New Series}, title = {Globalization and the Politics of Place: Place and Identity in an Inner London Neighbourhood}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/622933}, volume = {21}, year = {1996} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:5979414 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5979414 N2 - Recent years have seen a growing theoretical literature concerned with delineating the politics of place. Drawing upon interviews conducted with a range of white residents in an inner London neighbourhood, the paper opens these debates to empirical analysis. Attention is focused on the understandings of some of the area's new cultural class residents who are working to construct an image of the area's essential 'Englishness' whilst, at the same time, articulating a desire for diversity and difference. It is suggested that their accounts demonstrate neither a clearly 'bounded' sense of place nor yet anything more progressive, and their understandings are compared to those of their working class neighbours to consider how the politics of race and class intersect in the construction of place identities. IS - 1 JF - Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers SE - New Series SN - 00202754 EP - 215 TI - Globalization and the Politics of Place: Place and Identity in an Inner London Neighbourhood PB - Blackwell Publishing on behalf of The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) VL - 21 SP - 194 KW - 1005 KW - globalization KW - london KW - placeandspace AU - May, Jon PY - 1996/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/622933 ER -