Neither 'Deepest, Darkest Peckham' nor 'Run-of-the-Mill' East Dulwich: The Middle Classes and their 'Others' in an Inner-London Neighbourhood
Neither 'Deepest, Darkest Peckham' nor 'Run-of-the-Mill' East Dulwich: The Middle Classes and their 'Others' in an Inner-London Neighbourhood
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DOI：
10.1111/1468-2427.12129
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发表时间：
2014-07-01
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
Benson, Michaela
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作者：
Jackson, Emma;Benson, Michaela
本文探讨了伦敦市中心一个社区的中产阶级居民如何在自己和他人之间划定社会空间和象征性的界限。通过讨论两个非常不同的边界，一个多民族的商业街的边界和一个不太明确界定的边界相邻的中产阶级地区的帐户，我们认为，中产阶级身份的生产是绑定的过程中，不仅从附近的污名化地区，而且从更高档的地区和人民谁填充。在这种背景下，很明显，中产阶级的归属要求是通过（1）中产阶级创造和维持自己与种族化/阶级化的其他人之间的空间边界的不对称过程，以及（2）中产阶级内部进行的微妙的区别过程。然而，与地方的关系仍然是矛盾的，随着邻里关系的变化，将一个地区与另一个地区分开的物理边界拒绝保持不变。我们认为，在中产阶级受访者的账户中重新刻上这样的边界是为了在当代全球城市不断变化的基础上创造一个稳定的身份。
This article examines how middle-class residents of an inner-London neighbourhood draw up socio-spatial and symbolic boundaries between themselves and their others'. Through a discussion of accounts of two very different boundaries the boundary of a multi-ethnic high street and a less clearly defined boundary of a neighbouring middle-class area we argue that the production of middle-class identities is bound up with processes of disaffiliation not only from proximate stigmatized areas, but also from more upmarket areas and the people who populate them. Against this background it becomes clear that middle-class claims to belonging are made through (1) the asymmetric processes by which the middle classes create and maintain spatial boundaries between themselves and racialized/classed others, and (2) the subtle processes of distinction that go on within the middle classes. Nevertheless, relationships to place remain ambivalent, and as neighbourhoods undergo change, physical boundaries separating one area from another refuse to stay put. We argue that the re-inscription of such boundaries in the accounts of middle-class respondents are attempts to create a stable identity on the shifting ground of the contemporary global city.