The secret garden? Elite metropolitan geographies in the contemporary UK.
The secret garden? Elite metropolitan geographies in the contemporary UK.
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10.1111/1467-954x.12285
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2015-05
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Savage M
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Cunningham N;Savage M
人们对空间位置在界定和加强这个国家和其他地区的不平等方面的作用有了持久的、甚至是越来越多的认识。在英国，围绕这些问题的辩论大多集中在长期存在的“南北鸿沟”这一既定的比喻上。近几十年来，随着英国北部不可避免的去工业化，这种鸿沟似乎进一步加深，与金融和辅助服务业推动的财富迅速集中在伦敦和东南部形成鲜明对比。由于缺乏可用的数据，这种辩论往往只集中在地区之间的经济不平等上，到目前为止，人们对这些差异如何在社会和文化领域发挥作用知之甚少。本文利用英国广播公司的《英国阶级调查大实验》提供的数据，将空间不平等的定义扩大到不仅包括经济领域，还包括社会和文化领域，从而极大地提高了我们对英国空间不平等的真正含义的理解。我们认为，这些数据不仅揭示了现有辩论已经揭示的该国不同地区之间的经济不平等，而且还理解了这些不平等是如何在社会和文化层面得到强化和调和的。从根本上说，我们同意许多其他人的看法，认为伦敦和东南部是经济积累的漩涡，但它也远远不止于此；在这个空间，密集的经济、社会和文化资源汇聚在一起，使得精英阶层形成的特殊和微妙的形式得以具体化，其中的形成并不是偶然的，而是他们本身存在的不可或缺的。
There is an enduring, indeed increasing awareness of the role of spatial location in defining and reinforcing inequality in this country and beyond. In the UK, much of the debate around these issues has focussed on the established trope of a long-standing ‘north-south divide’, a divide which appears to have deepened in recent decades with the inexorable de-industrialisation of northern Britain presented in stark counterpoint to the burgeoning concentration of wealth in London and the south-east, driven by the financial and ancillary services sectors. Due to a lack of available data, such debates have tended to focus solely on economic inequalities between places, and until now there was little understanding of how these disparities played out in the social and cultural domains. This paper significantly advances our understanding of the true meaning of spatial inequality in the UK by broadening that definition to encompass not only the economic, but also the social and cultural arenas, using data available from the BBC's Great British Class Survey experiment. We argue that these data shine a light not only on the economic inequalities between different parts of the country which existing debates have already uncovered but to understand how these are both reinforced and mediated across the social and cultural dimensions. Fundamentally, we concur with a great many others in seeing London and the south-east as a vortex for economic accumulation but it is also much more than that; it is a space where the coming together of intense economic, social and cultural resources enables the crystallisation of particular and nuanced forms of elite social class formations, formations in which place is not incidental but integral to their very existence.