Moving Histories of Class and Community:Identity, Place and Belonging in Contemporary England

Rogaly, Ben and Taylor, Becky (2009) Moving Histories of Class and Community:Identity, Place and Belonging in Contemporary England. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke. ISBN 9780230219939

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Abstract

White working class areas are often seen as entrenched and immobile, threatened by the arrival of 'outsiders'. This major new study of class and place since 1930 challenges accepted wisdom, demonstrating how emigration as well as shorter distance moves out of such areas can be as suffused with emotion as moving into them. Both influence people's sense of belonging to the place they live in. Using oral histories from residents of three social housing estates in Norwich, England, the book also tells stories of the appropriation of and resistance to state discoruses of community; and of ambivalent, complex and shifting class relations and identities. Material poverty has been a constant in the area, but not for all residents, and being classed as 'poor' is an identity that some actively resist.

Item Type:	Book
Uncontrolled Keywords:	sdg 10 - reduced inequalities ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/reduced_inequalities
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of History
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Migration Research Network
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	08 Sep 2015 12:26
Last Modified:	12 Jan 2023 11:30
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/54259
DOI:	10.1057/9780230236868

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