Full Description
Neighbours are a lively topic of everyday conversation and interest. Neighbours Around the World takes a comparative look around the world at our relationships and interactions with the people who live next door, analysing the ways in which these relationships are changing in the face of large-scale macro social and urban processes.
Understanding that there is considerable variation in the relative importance that we place on neighbours - the extent to which we interact with them or rely on them for local support, and the likelihood that our relationships with them are characterised by friendliness, indifference or conflict - this edited collection examines how neighbouring is shaped by our individual characteristics, but also by the structural features of where we live and the forces reshaping our local neighbourhoods.
Casting a conceptual and empirical gaze on neighbours as a constituent feature of urban life in diverse cities, neighbourhoods and local streets around the world, the authors take us from Singapore's public housing estates to mobile home parks in Florida, and from one of the most famous tourist spots in Shanghai to new-build estates on the edge of Moscow and St Petersburg. Neighbours Around the World uncovers the diversity and commonalities in the meanings, experiences and practices of living with neighbours—the people next door.
Contents
Introduction. Neighbours around the world: introducing the people next door; Lynda Cheshire
Chapter 1. The changing significance of neighbouring - from socialist to post reform China; Zheng Wang
Chapter 2. New neighbours in new urban districts in large Russian cities: constructing scenarios of neighbouring; Oksana Zaporozhets and Olga Brednikova
Chapter 3. The transformation of interpersonal neighbour relationships at high speed: the changing neighbourhood in Tianzifang in downtown Shanghai; Florence Padovani
Chapter 4. Conflict generated: the re-configuration of neighbouring in changing neighbourhoods in Istanbul and Vienna; Dilruba Erkan and Michael Friesenecker
Chapter 5. From derelict estates to a mixed-tenure neighbourhood: social housing tenants' experiences of neighbouring in Peckham, London; Tatiana Morera de Souza
Chapter 6. More than just good friends? Rethinking neighbours in contexts of urban multiculture; Sarah Neal
Chapter 7. Between "family" and "trailer trash": neighbour culture, place and identity in Florida Mobile Homes; Margarethe Kusenbach
Chapter 8. Neighbouring Narratives: understanding lived and institutional neighbourliness in Singapore's public housing estates; Anupama Nallari and Ate Poorthuis
Chapter 9. Getting along with the neighbours? Neighbourliness, unneighbourliness and community in a London suburb; Paul Watt
Chapter 10. "A village in the middle of a city": neighbouring and social ties in a public housing community in inner-city Sydney; Alan Morris
Chapter 11. Explaining latent neighbourliness: does turning locally for support in major challenges matter and, if not, then what may?; Talja Blokland, Daniela Krüger, Robert Vief, Henrik Schultze, Valentin Regnault, and Jule Benz
Conclusion - Revisiting the Neighbours: a final word on the people next door; Lynda Cheshire
