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Co-production: fostering greater inclusion or reproducing existing exclusion? An analysis of co-commissioning and resident participation on a South London housing estate
In many neoliberal economies, co-production is an increasingly popular way of generating public value, empowering citizens, and innovating public...
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East Londoners as the Workforce for London 2012
The proportion of occupational gains going to local East Londoners, from the beginning of the bid onwards, was considered with scepticism,...
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“Our Generation…” Aspiration, Desire, and Generation as Discourse Among Highly Educated, Portuguese, Post-austerity Migrants in London
Drawing on 18 months of multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork, this paper brings into dialogue empirical material from young, highly educated Portuguese...
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Introduction: State Capacity, Capacity to Aspire and Layered Resilience During a Pandemic
We begin this introductory chapter by setting out the book’s core question—where do people with a migration background look for help and orientation...
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Using Local Prison Registers to Explore the Relationship Between Female Drunkenness, Age and Marital Status in Mid-Victorian Salford
Female drunkenness was perceived to be a major problem in Victorian England. Commentators believed that women who drank betrayed their prescribed...
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Migrant Mediators as Promoters of Social Cohesion During the Pandemic: An Analysis of the Mutual Learning Process
After a brief insight into the impact of the health emergency on migrants and a brief description of how the concept of mutual learning can be...
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Service Hubs: Stuck in Time, Stuck in Place
In this chapter, I focus on the tension and contradictions between the displacing logics of gentrification on the one hand, and the spatial...
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Interrogating the Public Health Approach: Lessons from the Field of Urban Violence
The public health idiom had already made serious inroads into understandings of, and attempts to address, urban violence (particularly among young...
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The Kurdish Diaspora(s)
This chapter attempts to explain the formation of Kurdish diaspora communities in different European cities and to describe their new and positive...
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Advocacy and Service Delivery in the Voluntary Sector: Exploring the History of Voluntary Sector Activities for New Minority and Migrant Groups in East London, 1970s–1990s
In the 1970s, the voluntary sector acted as a key space for advocacy and support for communities that were marginalised from statutory provision....
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British Muslim Men, Stigma and Clothing Choices
This chapter examines the changing perceptions of dress, focusing on the lungi, funjabi (The funjabi, also known as panjabi, is a kurta-like top, a...
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Legal Geographies of Resistance to Gentrification and Displacement: Lessons from the Aylesbury Estate in London
Council estates in London are under threat like never before from state-led gentrification which is displacing residents from their homes and...
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Imagined Geographies of the Marketplace: Fashioned Materialities
This chapter examines the meanings embedded in the material culture of the marketplace (as visible in Borough Market’s built environment and...
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Uncovering Inclusivity in London’s Inner City: A Historical Analysis of Diversity and Its Relation to Gentrification in Brixton
This chapter will depict an outline of the inclusivity of Brixton, an ethnically mixed inner city of London, and suggest some aspects of inclusivity...
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Data-Based Frictions in Civic Action: Trust, Technology, and Participation
In order to address climate change and persistent air pollution, many cities have developed policy plans to reduce vehicle through-traffic on...
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Cultural Consultation in Context: A Comparison of the Framing of Identity During Intake at Services in Montreal, London, and Paris
Cultural diversity poses a challenge to mental Health care systems in many settings. Specialized cultural consultation services have been developed...
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Good (Local) Governance and State Capacity: Continuity and Difference in Times of Pandemic and Beyond
The chapter investigates ‘good governance’ in times of pandemic and beyond. It starts by locating the chapter within debates concerning ‘rescaling’...
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Introduction
On 31 October 1918, the First World War (WW1) ended. This book explores a common but almost forgotten historical argument that positions the Kurds as...
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Ageing, Mobility and the City: Objects, Infrastructures and Practices in Everyday Assemblages of Civic Spaces in East London
This article considers how older people inhabit cities in the UK, looking specifically at how everyday practices of mobility intersect with the...
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Housing Space in England at the Neighbourhood-Level, 1971 to 2017
While most discussions of housing in the UK tend to focus on national or regional scales, the level of diversity within regions means that measuring...
