Full Description
Contemporary city and suburban dwellers are constantly on the move. Does this mean they lack a sense of belonging to their neighbourhoods, or does enhanced mobility co-exist with feelings of community and belonging? This collection examines these questions through a unique series of neighbourhood-based global case studies.
Contents
1. Introduction; Paul Watt and Peer Smets 2. Local and Transnational Everyday Practices in Four European Cities: Are New Barbarians on the Road?; Alberta Andreotti, Patrick Le Galès and Francisco Javier Moreno Fuentes 3. Consumption Practices and Local Belonging among Condominium Residents in Mexico City; Angela Giglia 4. Living in an (Un)gated Community: Neighbourhood Belonging in Lisbon's Parque das Nações; Maria Assunção Gato 5. Belonging and Micro-Settings in a Rotterdam Housing Complex; Peer Smets and Annemette Hellinga 6. Neighbours, Newcomers and Nation-Building: Producing Neighbourhood as Locality in a Post-Apartheid Cape Town Suburb; Anna Bohlin 7. East London Mobilities: The Cockney Diaspora and the Remaking of the Essex Ethnoscape; Paul Watt, Gareth Millington and Rupa Huq 8. Teenagers' Mobilities and Sense of Belonging in the Parisian Sensitive Urban Areas; Nicolas Oppenchaim 9. Class, Community and Belonging in a 'Chav Town'; Elias le Grand 10. Newcomers vs. Old-Timers? Community, Co-operation and Conflict in the Post-Socialist Suburbs of Wroclaw, Poland; Katarzyna Kajdanek 11. In-Between Mobility in Toronto's New (Sub)urban Neighbourhoods; Roger Keil and Douglas Young 12. Conclusion; Paul Watt and Peer Smets
