How the Other Half Lives

Interconnecting Socio-Spatial Inequalities

Samuel Burgum, Katie Higgins

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English

Manchester University Press
05 March 2024

Poverty & unemployment; Urban communities; Sociology; Human geography

How the other half lives interrogates contemporary social and spatial inequalities in housing, urban design, place-making, austerity, notions of deservedness and transnational mobility.

We are, all of us, intimately familiar with inequalities. Whether finding somewhere to live, walking in the street, following the news, negotiating international travel, or in our working and personal lives, subtle and crude hierarchies shape our lived experience. How the other half lives contributes detailed, multidisciplinary, and qualitative explorations of the everyday social and spatial realities of inequality, drawing new lines from Manchester to Milan, from Brighton to Bologna. How the other half lives is a resource to navigate an unequal world, oriented around three key understandings of inequality as contingent, as intersectional, and as interrelated.

The book focuses attention on the differences, similarities, and in-between points where ‘the other halves’ meet, to provoke new and useful perspectives on inequalities. It considers the connections between the accumulation of profound wealth and impoverished communities, the banal decisions by those in the seats of power and increasing levels of violence in austerity-wracked neighbourhoods, and between a world of smooth mobility and oppressive borders.

How the other half lives is uniquely structured as a series of oppositions between peaks and troughs, with each chapter focusing on a specific subject, including: housing, urban design, place-making, the state, cultures of inequality, and transnational mobility.

With a preface from the Guardian’s Zoe Williams and concluding remarks from Professor Rowland Atkinson, this book will appeal to undergraduates and academic readers in the social sciences who are interested in contemporary social and spatial inequalities.

Edited by: Samuel Burgum, Katie Higgins
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 286g
ISBN: 9781526176752
ISBN 10: 1526176750
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 05 March 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Preface - Zoe Williams Introduction: how the other half lives - Katie Higgins and Samuel Burgum Part I Structural inequalities Editor’s introduction: Placing inequalities in context (contingency) 1 Emergence to clearance: the housing question in the district of Ancoats - Nigel de Noronha and Jonathan Silver 2 Abandonment to financialisation: Ancoats and the ongoing housing question - Nigel de Noronha and Jonathan Silver 3 Austerity and the local state: governing and politicising ‘actually existing austerity’ in a post-democratic city - Joe Penny 4 ‘They don’t know how angry I am’: the slow violence of Austerity Britain - Anthony Ellis Part II Situated inequalities Editor’s introduction: Beyond the economic (complex inequalities) 5 Iconic architecture: seduction and subversion - Amparo Tarazona-Vento 6 Catcalls and cobblestones: gendered limits on women’s walking - Morag Rose 7 Inequality in elite neighbourhoods: a case study from central London - Ilaria Pulini 8 Discrimination in ‘receptive cities’? Voices from Brighton and Bologna - Caterina Mazzilli Part III Interrelated inequalities Editor’s introduction: Relations of inequality (never in isolation) 9 The Sunday Times Rich List and the myth of the self-made man - Elisabeth Schimpfössl and Timothy Monteath 10 Victims and agents: the representation of refugees among British volunteers active in the refugee support sector - Gaja Maestri and Pierre Monforte 11 Entwined stories: privileged family migration, differential inclusion and shifting geographies of belonging - Sarah Kunz 12 ‘Milan doesn’t want us to be comfortable’: differential inclusion of refugees in Milan - Maurizio Artero Conclusion: Highs and lows: breaching social and spatial boundaries - Rowland Atkinson Index -- .

Samuel Burgum is a Lecturer in Sociology at Birmingham City University Katie Higgins is a Research Fellow in the Department of Social Policy and Intervention at the University of Oxford -- .