Middle-Class Poverty Politics: Making Place, Making People

Elwood, Sarah; Lawson, Victoria; Nowak, Samuel

doi:10.1080/00045608.2014.968945

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“…Classes as symbolically delineated and constituted groups are not to be perceived as homogenous groups and are not only about socio‐economic position; these are also about education, lifestyle, consumption patterns and self‐identification (Butler & Robson ; Elwood et al . ). Literature indicates that certain fractions of the middle classes distinguish themselves from other fractions of the middle classes, for instance by drawing cultural or moral boundaries (Lamont ; Hazir ).…”

Section: Symbolic Boundary Makingmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…This long‐term resident drew moral boundaries within the white middle class by criticising the ‘self‐proclaimed’ progressive and tolerant character of middle‐class people living in gentrified parts of the neighbourhoods, which she compared to the attitudes of middle‐class people living in deprived parts (see also Butler & Robson ; Elwood et al . ). We also came across interviewees who drew the same moral boundary between middle‐class people within gentrifying areas.…”

Section: Making Symbolic Boundaries To Demarcate Social Groupsmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…Elwood et al . () demonstrated that middle class interviewees assume poor people to be ‘non‐white’. Hence, the ethnic marker ‘non‐white’ is connected to a class boundary in order to construct strong symbolic boundaries setting apart the poor from other social groups in the neighbourhood (Saperstein & Penner ).…”

Section: Symbolic Boundary Makingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Elwood et al . () found that middle class people living in Seattle also draw moral boundaries within the lower class and distinguish between the ‘good’ poor, who grab opportunities to become middle class, and the ‘bad’ poor, who do not.…”

Section: Symbolic Boundary Makingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Neighbourhood-based research on the rise of super-diverse cities has mostly focused on the implications of living in super-diverse neighbourhoods for individual relations, and paid little attention to processes of group formation. This paper focuses on how residents of superdiverse neighbourhoods identify social groups. Drawing on the concept of symbolic boundary making, it provides insights into how residents draw, enact and experience boundaries. Using the results of in-depth interviews with residents in Antwerp and Rotterdam, we show that superdiversity complexifies but does not counteract group formation. Residents draw multiple, interrelated symbolic boundaries along ethnic, class and religious lines and lines based on length of residence, which are sometimes used interchangeably. We also show that group boundaries are dynamic and constantly (re-)created. Finally, we show that discursive boundaries do not necessarily lead to less social contact across these boundaries, thus illustrating that symbolic boundaries do not always result in segregated social patterns.

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Section: Symbolic Boundary Makingmentioning

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“…were not homogenizing universalisms but built on the mutual constitution of gender, class, race and national subordination to create agendas for struggle and visions of social equality and justice" (1408). Indeed, much of this work has gone into making legible the invisible connections that so powerfully make places, as Elwood et al (2015) explained: "When relational place-making involves engaged struggle with difference and inequality, actors might begin to recognize, articulate, and question race and class norms or poverty politics that were previously invisible and taken for granted" (136).…”

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The Enduring Struggle for Social Justice and the City

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Aiello

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Life‐course trajectories and spatial segregation in older age

Malmberg,

Andersson,

Wimark

2023

Population Space and Place

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There are few reasons to believe that social segregation is restricted to the working age population. Still, attempts to analyse social segregation among old age individuals have been lacking. The purpose of this paper is, therefore, to explore the extent to which old age individuals who follow different sociodemographic trajectories are geographically segregated. We analyse residential segregation among older age adults, based on an identification of typical sociodemographic life courses in longitudinal, geo‐coded, register data for three life phases: young old, 65–79 years, middle old, 75–89 years and, oldest old, 85–99 years. The results show great life‐course heterogeneity in these age groups. In each life phase, we distinguish seven different trajectory types that also display distinct geographical patterns. The first group of trajectories is characterized by a high proportion of married individuals with high income concentrated in suburban, single‐family housing areas. The second group consists of trajectories with many widows/widowers in small‐scale, apartment areas. The third group consists of singleton trajectories in metropolitan areas. The fourth group is overrepresented in low‐income areas and consists of trajectories including individuals of nonsurvival in the life phase. The fifth group is composed of trajectories with married or widowed low‐income individuals in owner‐occupied areas mainly found in rural areas. Thus, there is pronounced geographical variation in what type of neighbourhood life old age individuals live. This indicates that social segregation in the old age population deserves to be given more attention in geographical research.

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Middle-Class Poverty Politics: Making Place, Making People

Cited by 55 publications

References 41 publications

Symbolic Boundary Making in Super‐Diverse Deprived Neighbourhoods

Symbolic Boundary Making in Super‐Diverse Deprived Neighbourhoods

The Enduring Struggle for Social Justice and the City

Life‐course trajectories and spatial segregation in older age

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