Writers from within the Foucauldian govern mentality school have characterised recent governmental trends, associated with neo-liberal political rationalities, as manifestations of the death of the collectivist and universalist character of the 'social'. However, the unfolding of these...

This essay argues that Tom Slater's article makes several important points regarding what he rightly suggests is the disappearance of a critical edge from much of the recent gentrification literature. It explores one of these points in greater depth, i.e. the notion that the working class occupy...

Housing has come to play an important role in demarcating the contours of social polarization in inner London, notably via the widening socio-spatial divide between an impoverished working class located in council housing estates and affluent home-owning gentrifiers. In mass media and policy...

This book offers a cross-national perspective on contemporary urban renewal in relation to social rental housing. Social housing estates - as developed either by governments (public housing) or not-for-profit agencies (housing associations) - emerged out of post-war urban renewal programmes and...

This paper aims to address the oft-mentioned dearth of research on the suburbs by examining processes of sociospatial segregation and middle-class disaffiliation in London’s eastern suburban periphery. By drawing upon aspects of Bourdieu’s theoretical framework, the paper shows how the...