[EQ] Neighbourhood identity -People, time and place

Neighbourhood identity -People, time and place

 

Douglas Robertson, James Smyth and Ian McIntosh

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation - 2008

 

Website: http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/publications_show.htm?doc_id=672908

 

PDF file [134p.] at; http://www.jrf.org.uk/bookshop/eBooks/2154-neighbourhood-identity-regeneration.pdf

 

“……….This study looks at the ways in which neighbourhood identity is formed and considers any implications  this may have for policies that seek to improve and enhance neighbourhoods.

 

Through an examination of three neighbourhoods in Stirling, Scotland, the study explores what it means to people to ‘come from’ each of these areas as a way

of understanding issues of belonging and attachment to particular places. The areas – Raploch, Riverside and Randolph Road – were chosen due to their differing socio-economic profiles and contrasting identities.

 

The authors consider why regeneration policies often fail in their objectives and why the reputations of housing estates often display a remarkable longevity and

resilience to change. They focus on how such reputations are established and understood by those in and outside particular areas and what implications this has for the identities of neighbourhoods and the people who live in them….”

 

Executive summary

1 Identities, neighbourhood and community

2 Development of the three neighbourhood identities in Stirling

3 Space, belonging and identities

Identity, culture and social positioning

Culture of knowing ‘whaur you are fae’

Community: differing understandings and experiences

Social networks

Fragility of community

Social memory: telling tales of place

Edges, boundaries and differentiated community

Summary

4 Gender, class and religion

Women, family and children

Men and employment

Social class and social stigma

Religious identities

Summary

5 Conclusions

Policy considerations

Notes

Bibliography

Appendix 1: Neighbourhood identity family histories

Appendix 2: Data zone selection and qualification

 

 

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