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Atkinson, R. (2015) Losing one’s place: Narratives of neighbourhood change, market injustice and symbolic displacement in Melbourne and Sydney. Housing, Theory and Society, 32 (4). pp. 373-388. ISSN 1403-6096
Abstract
This article examines the narratives offered by those displaced through the gentrification of neighbourhoods in Melbourne and Sydney. Extensive qualitative interview data generated from encounters with self-identified displacees in these cities is used here to examine their responses to changes in and after they moved from their originating neighbourhoods and the impacts these changes had on them. This data reveals that despite displacement commonly being defined in terms of physical movement, in many cases, participants became dislocated and isolated by the physical and social changes that took place while still residing in neighbourhoods as they changed. The article traces these twin modes of displacement – both as a series of impacts generated by direct market dislocation but also as feelings of loss connected with a home that might be imminently lost and the cherished place around it. These narratives reveal how private renters respond to a symbolic violence that they locate in a changing built environment and a shifting social physiognomy that impinges and threatens the viability of their tenure of these places. The article locates these resentments and displacements within a sociopolitical context that celebrates ownership and investment in the very homes and places that are now lost to them.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2015 Taylor & Francis. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in Housing, Theory and Society. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Gentrification; Displacement; Neighbourhood change; Sense of place; Melbourne; Sydney |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Urban Studies & Planning (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 22 Sep 2015 13:36 |
Last Modified: | 05 Nov 2017 04:31 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14036096.2015.1053980 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/14036096.2015.1053980 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:87380 |
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