Making the middle classes on shifting ground? Residential status, performativity and middle-class subjectivities in contemporary London.
Making the middle classes on shifting ground? Residential status, performativity and middle-class subjectivities in contemporary London.
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让中产阶级处于转变的境地?
DOI:
10.1111/1468-4446.12256
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发表时间:
2017
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通讯作者:
E. Jackson
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作者:
Michaela Benson;E. Jackson
This paper argues that shifts in access to housing - both in relation to rental and ownership - disrupt middle-class reproduction in ways that fundamentally influence class formation. While property ownership has had a long association with middle-class identities, status and distinction, an increasingly competitive rental market alongside inflated property prices has impacted on expectations and anxieties over housing futures. In this paper, we consider two key questions: (1) What happens to middle-class identities under the conditions of this wider structural change? (2) How do the middle classes variously manoeuvre within this? Drawing on empirical research conducted in London, we demonstrate that becoming an owner-occupier may be fractured along lines of class but also along the axes of age, wealth and timing, particularly as this relates to the housing market. It builds on understandings of residential status and place as central to the formation of class, orienting this around the recognition of both people and place as mutable, emphasizing that changing economic and social processes generate new class positionalities and strategies for class reproduction. We argue that these processes are writ large in practices of belonging and claims to place, with wider repercussions within the urban landscape.
DOI:
10.1111/1467-954x.12297
发表时间:
2015
期刊:
The Sociological Review
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Skeggs B
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Skeggs B