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Getting by : estates, class and culture in austerity Britain

By Owen Jones , Danny Dorling , Lisa Mckenzie

Book information

Publisher
Policy Press
Year
2015
ISBN
978-1-44730-995-6, 1447309952, 978-1-44731-129-4, 978-1-44731-130-0
Language
english
Format
MOBI
Filesize
735 kB (753049 bytes)
Pages
225\0
Time added
2017-08-15 11:00:00
SociologyUrban -- England -- Nottingham.;Public housing --Urban.;England -- Nottingham.;Stadsdelar.;Allmänn

Description

Over the past thirty years, the United Kingdom’s poor have become increasingly stigmatized, while many poor communities have become the subject of great public concern and media scorn. In this book, Lisa Mckenzie offers rare insight into life in one of these neighborhoods, St Ann’s Estate in Nottingham. Notorious for containing many of the city’s gangs, guns, and drugs, the area is also known as the place where the unemployed and the feckless take up as long-term residents. As a former inhabitant of St Ann’s, Mckenzie is able to delve into a community often wary of outsiders, providing an important account of the effects of recent policy changes and the complexities faced by those living in poor neighborhoods in contemporary Britain.

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