‘Oh I do like to be beside the seaside’: opportunity structures for four un/underemployed young people living in English coastal towns

Reid, Hazel; Westergaard, Jane

doi:10.1080/03069885.2017.1283005

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“…He also outlines regeneration efforts in Hastings, including the local council’s attempts to limit the number of HMOs to decrease the presence of socially disadvantaged groups such as substance misusers. However, similar to McDowell and Thompson (2020), Nayak (2019) and Reid and Westergaard (2017), as well as this article, the ability of residents to attain remunerative employment was circumscribed, and thus, the locale continued to decline. Others utilized interviews with individuals in Bexhill-On-Sea, in the south of England, to ascertain how people migrating to the area to retire impacted on the coastal town (Leonard, 2016).…”

Section: Coastal Communitiessupporting

confidence: 76%

“…As mentioned, prominent themes in research on both coastal communities and deindustrialized locales include unemployment, a lack of jobs, a lost identity and a sense of loss (Lloyd, 2018; Mckenzie, 2017; Reid and Westergaard, 2017; Taylor, 2020; Walkerdine, 2010; Wenham, 2020). Although deindustrialization has been a process throughout neoliberalism, it unfolds in ‘several waves’ (Strangleman, 2017: 473).…”

Section: Deindustrializationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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‘There is nothing there’: Deindustrialization and loss in a coastal town

Telford

2021

Competition & Change

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Based on 52 qualitative interviews with working-class individuals, this paper explores the social and economic decline of a coastal locale referred to as High Town in Teesside in the North East of England. First, the paper outlines how the locality expanded as a popular seaside resort under capitalism’s post-war period. It then assesses how the seaside existed together with industrial work, offering stable employment opportunities, economic security and a sense of community. Next, the article documents the shift to neoliberalism in the 1980s, specifically the decline of High Town’s seaside resort, the deindustrialization process and therefore the 2015 closure of High Town’s steelworks. It explicates how this exacerbated the locale’s economic decline through the loss of industrial work’s ‘job for life’, its diminishing popularity as a coastal area and the further deterioration of the town centre. The paper concludes by suggesting that High Town has lost its raison d’être under neoliberalism and faces difficulties in revival.

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Section: Coastal Communitiessupporting

confidence: 76%

Section: Deindustrializationmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘There is nothing there’: Deindustrialization and loss in a coastal town

Telford

2021

Competition & Change

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“…Resorts in north Devon, for example, suffered from the closure of branch railway lines in the 1960s, whereas on the north-east coast, the closure of the steel works on Teesside in 2015 severely affected resorts already in trouble (Nayak, 2019). More generally, low levels of investment, rising poverty, housing problems as large Victorian properties, previously occupied by visitors, need maintenance (Smith, 2012; Ward, 2015), problems of high rates of drug abuse, community issues connected to recent government policies of housing refugees and asylum seekers in these towns and outward migration of the more educated population have resulted in the coincidence of high levels of social and economic deprivation (House of Lords, 2019; Reid and Westergaard, 2017).…”

Section: Seaside Imagesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The other side of coastal towns: Young men’s precarious lives on the margins of England

McDowell

Bonner-Thompson

2019

Environ Plan A

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English coastal resorts are among the most deprived towns in the country, with levels of economic and social deprivation often exceeding those of the inner areas of large cities and former industrial settlements. Their dominant image in the media and other forms of representation, however, is of places of innocent fun and leisure, often associated with their history as holiday destinations for working-class families, although the darker side of these towns is not completely ignored. The lives of white working-class, year-round residents in these towns, however, seldom feature in representations or in policy and academic research. Here, we focus on the everyday lives of one group: young white working-class men whose employment opportunities have been adversely affected by economic decline, austerity and rising inequality. In places where employment is largely restricted to customer-facing jobs in the holiday trade, the dominant construction of youthful masculinity and the associated rhetorical view of these men as troublesome not only excludes them from the labour market but exacerbates their marginality. Through interviews in four English resorts, we explore the causes and consequences of their precarity.

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“…Moreover, as has been pointed out, there is a greater proportion of appropriately qualified teachers working with disadvantaged pupils in London, as compared with elsewhere, especially in poor coastal districts (Sibieta, 2018). Regarding educational outcomes, the transition of pupils after their schooling has prompted considerable debate, whereby the career pathways of coast-based young people appear to be considerably more problematic than many of those of their urban counterparts (Reid & Westergaard, 2017; Shepherd & Hooley, 2016).…”

Section: Seaside Scholarship and Notorious Seaside Townsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Turning around coast-based schools: An interpretive narrative analysis of a report on school reform in English coastal communities

Parfitt

2020

Improving Schools

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An interpretive narrative inquiry approach is adopted to shed light on the improvement agendas applied in a specific set of coastal schools. The unifying thread between the focal cases is that they had been designated as failures and made notorious through association with their communities’ tainted reputations. These schools feature in a report published by the Future Leaders Trust, which is used as the resource for this paper. The taken for granted deficit discourses implicit in the accounts of how these schools were reformed are relied upon by the school leaders and other stakeholders to justify why they needed to be turned around. These assumptions that come to the fore through analysis, demonstrate that the socioeconomic contexts found in the jaded English coastal communities are not engaged with. Importing approaches that draw on communities’ resistance to relegation could, potentially, build positive discourses that lead to communities reclaiming educational opportunities in such schools, one clear example being that of Countesthorpe in Leicestershire, UK, in the 1970s.

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‘Oh I do like to be beside the seaside’: opportunity structures for four un/underemployed young people living in English coastal towns

Cited by 10 publications

References 21 publications

‘There is nothing there’: Deindustrialization and loss in a coastal town

‘There is nothing there’: Deindustrialization and loss in a coastal town

The other side of coastal towns: Young men’s precarious lives on the margins of England

Turning around coast-based schools: An interpretive narrative analysis of a report on school reform in English coastal communities

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