Unneighbourliness and the Unmaking of Home

Cheshire, Lynda; Easthope, Hazel; Have, Charlotte ten

doi:10.1080/14036096.2019.1705384

Cited by 21 publications

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“…Indebted to the rise of non‐representational scholarship in housing research, a first field has emerged emphasising how the visceral aspects of home, sound, and hearing, in particular, play out in people's emotional attachment to home (Duffy & Waitt, 2013) and parenting practices in apartments (Kerr et al., 2018). A second field underscores the emotional meaning of home and the role of micro‐politics and governance in multi‐households developments in potentially undermining these dynamics (Cheshire et al., 2019; Power, 2015). All the same, little work considers the affective variety of these emotionally embodied responses to verticality in contemporary towers.…”

Section: Disorientations Emotions and Verticalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Disorientation in the unmaking of high‐rise homes

Dorignon

Nethercote

2021

Trans Inst British Geog

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This paper expands our understanding of vertical urbanism, and specifically the experience of home in high-rise housing, by assessing and mobilising a "disorientated geographies" approach. It follows Bissell and Gorman-Murray's recent call for researchers to better account for the logics of disconnection and undoing in geographical inquiry. Building on their exploration of "disorientated geographies," this paper examines the lived experience of three single men living in high-rise housing to revisit the high-rise as home. It aims to advance prevailing understandings of urban vertical living and more specifically of the processes through which these homes are made and unmade. Drawing on in-depth interviews with apartment dwellers in new high-rise housing in London and Melbourne, we explore residents' loss of orienting relations through their feelings of frustration, restlessness, and disappointment. We consider how these emotional states contribute to destabilise their homes as these three men struggle to comprehend and orient themselves within the sociospatial environment of the high-rise, and specifically an environment compromised by design and build quality issues. We argue that disorientation provides a useful but undervalued vantage point from which to understand the making and unmaking of vertical homes. In so doing, we foreground and sharpen understandings of the role of verticality, in particular, in these processes of home-unmaking. The contribution of the paper is two-fold. Conceptually, it both expands the application of disorientated geographies into a novel urban setting and broadens its frames of reference by examining other bodily experiences and emotions. Empirically, we advance understandings of the lived experience of vertical urbanisms by drawing new and productive links between verticality and disorientation that move us beyond consideration of purely physiological responses, such as vertigo or dizziness, to high-rise living, to better account for a fuller range of bodily, emotional, and social practices.

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Section: Disorientations Emotions and Verticalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Disorientation in the unmaking of high‐rise homes

Dorignon

Nethercote

2021

Trans Inst British Geog

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“…This research focuses on the negotiation of privacy and sociability (Crow et al, 2002), the relative strengths and weaknesses of ties that underpin a sense of community, belonging and/or disaster resilience (Blokland & Nast, 2014;Cheshire, 2015;Felder, 2020;Redshaw & Ingham, 2018), and the importance of understanding the sensory dimensions of neighbourly relations (Lewis, 2020). Alongside research on the impact of 'unneighbourliness' on the 'unmaking of home' (Baxter & Brickell, 2014;Cheshire et al, 2019), other work explores neighbourly connections at home, including on housing estates (Baxter, 2017;Melhuish, 2005) and in domestic high-rises (Baxter & Lees, 2009;Fernández Arrigoitia, 2014). In her research with recent Bangladeshi migrants living in high-rise housing in inner-city Toronto, for example, Ghosh contrasts the 'imagined sterility and order of high-rises' and the 'nature of everyday social life of their occupants' (Ghosh, 2014(Ghosh, , p. 2008).…”

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‘Tales from other people’s houses’: home and dis/connection in an East London neighbourhood

Sheringham

Ebbensgaard

Blunt

2021

Social & Cultural Geography

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Historias de casas ajenas': desconexión doméstica y urbana en un barrio del este de Londres RESUMENEste artículo explora lo que significa vivir juntos en la ciudad a través de un enfoque en el hogar y el espacio público urbano en el este de Londres. Desarrolla un marco conceptual para entender el hogar como un sitio de des/conexión, tanto conectado como desconectado de unidades habitacionales, la calle, el vecindario y la ciudad más amplios. Basándonos en una serie de biografías de ciudades-viviendas con residentes que viven en diferentes unidades habitacionales, exploramos lo que hace que una ciudad sea 'habitable' para sus diversos residentes dentro y fuera de los espacios domésticos y públicos; cómo las desconexiones de la ciudad de origen dan forma a las ideas y experiencias de convivencia; y la importancia de los contextos sensoriales, materiales y sociales del ARTICLE HISTORY

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“…A good starting point for discussing the concept is the simple definition given by Philip Abrams in his posthumously published study Neighbours: The work of Philip Abrams (Bulmer, 1986). By neighbours, Abrams means 'simply people who live near each other' (Bulmer, 1986: 21; also Cheshire et al, 2019;Cockayne, 2012;Fischer, 2004;Grannis, 2009;Heberle, 1960;Keller, 1968). Thus, physical proximity represents the basic defining feature of the concept of 'neighbour'.…”

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The Anatomy of Neighbour Relations

Ruonavaara

2021

Sociological Research Online

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Relations between neighbours represent informal social relations that constitute a part of everyday life for virtually all individuals in contemporary urban societies. While aspects of neighbour relations have been studied in connection with research on local communities, gentrification, and neighbourhood effects, little research focusing specifically on interactions between neighbours has been conducted and theoretical reflection on the central concepts remains lacking. This article attempts to fill this research gap by developing a theoretical framework for the sociological understanding and investigation of neighbour relations. The research material used consists of previous studies on neighbour relations. The method for the task was analysis of concepts coupled with theoretical reasoning based on a review and a synthesis of relevant previous research. Familiar concepts like ‘neighbour’, ‘neighbouring’, and ‘neighbourliness’ are scrutinised, deconstructed, and redefined, noting that there are often two perspectives on each: the experiences of residents and those of outside observers. Various sociological aspects of neighbour relations are discussed, including neighbour relations as an acquaintance relation, neighbour relations as the basis of a community, and the cultural content of the neighbour role. A model of levels of neighbourly interaction is presented.

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Unneighbourliness and the Unmaking of Home

Cited by 21 publications

References 44 publications

Disorientation in the unmaking of high‐rise homes

Disorientation in the unmaking of high‐rise homes

‘Tales from other people’s houses’: home and dis/connection in an East London neighbourhood

The Anatomy of Neighbour Relations

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