`Ordinary, the Same as Anywhere Else'

Allen, Chris; Powell, Ryan; Casey, Rionach; Coward, Sarah

doi:10.1177/0038038507074971

Cited by 35 publications

(4 citation statements)

References 23 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…While Sharma (2014: 138) demonstrates that populations are constantly required to recalibrate to fit the ‘temporal expectations’ of different institutions and relationships, in the building safety crisis it is notable that the biopolitical exercise of time through waiting is at odds with relatively stable societal norms and expectations for ‘successful’ self‐governance and citizenship (Flint, 2003). This means that recalibration is not possible without abandoning previously held temporal expectations associated with mobility and autonomy, and entails the inhabitation of a new spoiled identity (Allen et al ., 2007). Our research captures individuals at the point of grappling with living through a seemingly unliveable condition, in which the inhabitation of their previous life is impossible.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As Beth explained: 'when I see other people going through these really important milestones in life, I am really happy for them, but it really shines a magnifying glass on your own situation … you just start thinking like you failed' (Beth,(35)(36)(37)(38)(39)(40)(41)(42)(43)(44)London). This experience of not 'matching up' to others therefore becomes a source of social pain (Allen, 2007;Allen et al, 2007).…”

Section: Chronic Waiting Uncertainty and Loss Of Autonomymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This understanding is apt in a homeownership society such as England, because the unanchoring of home can also be the unanchoring of the self (Atkinson, 2015; Hatcher et al ., 2019), unravelling the symbols and societal relations through which the self was previously constructed. By rupturing hitherto taken‐for‐granted ways of being and knowing—the ‘practical sense’ (Bourdieu, 1990) acquired through the everyday inhabitation of social space (Allen, 2007)—we can see that a new spoiled identity takes root (Allen et al ., 2007). The case of the building safety crisis therefore adds to understandings of the differentiation and stratification of displacement within urban populations (Wilhelm‐Soloman, 2021), since leaseholders—unlike the urban poor—have generally not previously been subject to longstanding mechanisms of urban marginalization.…”

Section: Unhoming and Urban Traumamentioning

confidence: 99%

See 2 more Smart Citations

UNHOMING, TRAUMA AND WAITING: The Post‐Grenfell Building Safety Crisis in England

Preece,

Flint

2023

Int J Urban Regional Res

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

In this article we seek to advance our understanding of unhoming in a population not previously perceived to be vulnerable to such processes. We examine the particular forms of trauma in an emergent space of urban marginality, which has arisen through the fracturing of longstanding citizen–state relations and the rupturing of habitual orientations to home in a world that had hitherto been knowable and predictable. In this article we highlight the centrality of waiting in experiences of unhoming, which act as a mechanism of domination over a group newly subject to a specific manifestation of marginality; this mechanism has particular significance for understanding the differentiated dynamics of urban displacement. In this article we utilize interviews with 31 residents of residential flats in England living in buildings affected by fire safety defects, identified following the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire disaster in London in which 72 individuals died. We argue that research on urban dispossession needs to be attentive to distinctive processes and consequences of—and resistance to—unhoming. The experiences of newly affected populations unmask the underpinning precarity and unequal power relations of housing‐based urban citizenship.

show abstract

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Chronic Waiting Uncertainty and Loss Of Autonomymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Unhoming and Urban Traumamentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

UNHOMING, TRAUMA AND WAITING: The Post‐Grenfell Building Safety Crisis in England

Preece,

Flint

2023

Int J Urban Regional Res

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Bringing strangers together to get along or join in solidarity varies by the 'dynamics of situations' (Collins 2020: 479) and relies on shared symbols among participants. Whether residents attend school together (Allen et al 2005) or share busses (Kim 2012) or trains (Pütz 2018), symbolically-laden places and activities can orient residents to different purposes and foster togetherness. Residents' biographies, codes of civility, and previous interactions also inform whether 'successful' interactions will proceed.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reframing Social Tectonics with the Sociology of Everyday Life: Insights from the Public Spaces of a Mixed Housing Neighbourhood

Wykes

2023

CHA

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Social mix policies aim to integrate residents living in diverse forms of housing. While numerous studies have showcased the limitations of social mix in achieving this objective, explanations for this tendency remain incomplete. Accordingly, this qualitative case study adopts insights from the sociology of everyday life and interaction ritual theory to elaborate on academic understandings of (non)-interaction between disparate groups in mixed housing communities. It draws primarily from observational fieldwork and semi-structured interview data gathered in the public spaces of a transitioning mid-sized city in Ontario, Canada. The findings report how everyday encounters among and between the urban poor and wealthier residents (re)produce patterns of group solidarity and conflict. The continued application of micro-sociological perspectives to housing mix research can chronicle and perhaps mend the gaps between government housing policy objectives and the experiences of residents living within relevant legislative jurisdictions.

show abstract

Telling Others How You Live—Refining Goffman's Stigma Theory Through an Analysis of Housing Strugglers in a Homeowner Nation

Vassenden

Lie

2013

Symbolic Interaction

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This article revisits Goffman's stigma theory from the perspective of housing studies. We elaborate on Goffman's approach by exploring how housing tenure can work as a proxy for moral character. We interviewed twenty-seven people who are excluded from access to homeownership in two cities in Norway, which is a ''homeowner nation.'' These individuals are unable to enter the dominant ''homeowner class'' for different reasons, including drug-dependency, mental illness, refugee background, low socioeconomic status; thus, they must access housing through other tenures; private renting or social housing. To many of them, housing becomes a stigma, in Goffman terms, an ''undesired differentness.'' Social housing is known to carry stigma in Norway. It was thus a paradox, that those with the softest differentness-private rental-were most likely to practice (Goffman:) ''information control'' over their housing situation. Goffman's theoretical apparatus, and his distinction between the discreditable and the discredited in particular, helped us make this paradox comprehensible. Through this analysis, refinements to Goffman's theory were discovered. We suggest that ''multiple stigmas,'' which was not seen clearly by Goffman himself, should be a key notion in stigma studies. We use this notion to distinguish between possible sub-types to the discredited-discreditable distinction.

show abstract

`Ordinary, the Same as Anywhere Else'

Cited by 35 publications

References 23 publications

UNHOMING, TRAUMA AND WAITING: The Post‐Grenfell Building Safety Crisis in England

UNHOMING, TRAUMA AND WAITING: The Post‐Grenfell Building Safety Crisis in England

Reframing Social Tectonics with the Sociology of Everyday Life: Insights from the Public Spaces of a Mixed Housing Neighbourhood

Telling Others How You Live—Refining Goffman's Stigma Theory Through an Analysis of Housing Strugglers in a Homeowner Nation

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About