Life in an Alpha Territory: Discontinuity and conflict in an elite London ‘village’
Life in an Alpha Territory: Discontinuity and conflict in an elite London ‘village’
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阿尔法领地的生活：伦敦精英“村庄”的不连续性和冲突
DOI：
10.1177/0042098015612983
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发表时间：
2016
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影响因子：
4.7
通讯作者：
Roger Burrows
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作者：
R. Webber;Roger Burrows
本文是对伦敦成为全球“超级富豪”首选之地的社会影响的更大研究的一部分。该研究考察了新财富精英成员如何组织他们的日常活动，他们的人数不断增加对他们取代原有精英的着名社区的影响，以及他们对以前认为理所当然的道德观念，网络和交往场所的破坏性影响。本文的目的是在地理和历史背景下，通过将其置于皮凯蒂的论点内，将这一更广泛的研究纳入其中，即自1980年以来不平等程度的增加最好不要被理解为一种世俗趋势，而是意味着回归到1914年之前西方社会特有的预先存在的条件。为了分析地理人口学家所称的伦敦阿尔法地区500年来的演变，本文以海盖特村为案例研究区，确定的方式，其中村的各种住房存量呼吁不同的表现形式，这阿尔法领土，并利用三个最近的规划纠纷，使表面，否则隐藏的冲突之间的利益，全球资本和传统精英价值观的捍卫者回到皮凯蒂提出的问题，本文的结论是通过使用档案材料，使那些谁目前占据海盖特的最负盛名的物业的生活方式进行比较，与那些谁占据了他们一百年前的社会变革的分析。
This paper forms part of a larger study of the social implications of London becoming the location of choice for the global ‘super-rich’. The study examines how members of new wealth elites organise their day-to-day activities, the impact their growing numbers have on the prestigious neighbourhoods from which they are displacing pre-existing elites, and the disruptive effect they have on previously taken-for-granted mores, networks and places of association. The aim of the paper is to situate this wider study within a geographic and historical context by framing it within the arguments of Piketty, namely that increased levels of inequality since 1980 are best understood not as a secular trend but as signifying a return to the pre-existing conditions that characterised Western society prior to 1914. To analyse the evolution of – what geodemographers have termed – the Alpha Territory in London over a period of 500 years the paper takes Highgate Village as a case study area, identifies the manner in which the Village’s varied housing stock appeals to different manifestations of this Alpha Territory and uses three recent planning disputes to bring to the surface otherwise hidden conflicts between the interests of global capital and the defenders of more traditional elite values. Returning to the issues raised by Piketty, the paper concludes with an analysis of social change through the use of archive material which enables the lifestyles of those who currently occupy Highgate’s most prestigious properties to be compared with those who occupied them a hundred years ago.