Mobilities and Neighbourhood Belonging in Cities and Suburbs

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Introduction

   • Paul Watt, Peer Smets

   Pages 1-22

3. Local and Transnational Everyday Practices in Four European Cities: Are New Barbarians on the Road?

   • Alberta Andreotti, Patrick Le Galès, Francisco Javier Moreno Fuentes

   Pages 23-41

4. Consumption Practices and Local Belonging Among Condominium Residents in Mexico City

   • Angela Giglia

   Pages 42-59

5. Living in a(n) (un)Gated Community: Neighbourhood Belonging in Lisbon’s Parque das Nações

   • Maria Assunção Gato

   Pages 60-79

6. Belonging and Microsettings in a Rotterdam Housing Complex

   • Peer Smets, Annemette Hellinga

   Pages 80-99

7. Neighbours, Newcomers and Nation-Building: Producing Neighbourhood as Locality in a Post-Apartheid Cape Town Suburb

   • Anna Bohlin

   Pages 100-120

8. East London Mobilities: The ‘Cockney Diaspora’ and the Remaking of the Essex Ethnoscape

   • Paul Watt, Gareth Millington, Rupa Huq

   Pages 121-144

9. Teenagers’ Mobilities and Sense of Belonging in the Parisian Sensitive Urban Areas

   • Nicolas Oppenchaim

   Pages 145-163

10. Class, Community and Belonging in a ‘Chav Town’

    • Elias le Grand

    Pages 164-181

11. Newcomers vs. Old-Timers? Community, Cooperation and Conflict in the Post-Socialist Suburbs of Wrocław, Poland

    • Katarzyna Kajdanek

    Pages 182-199

12. In-Between Mobility in Toronto’s New (Sub)urban Neighbourhoods

    • Roger Keil, Douglas Young

    Pages 201-221

13. Back Matter

    Pages 229-257

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Contemporary city and suburban dwellers are constantly on the move. Does this mean they lack a sense of belonging to their neighbourhoods, or does enhanced mobility co-exist with feelings of community and belonging? This collection examines these questions through a unique series of neighbourhood-based global case studies.

• Belonging
• mobilities
• neighbourhood
• community
• place
• urban
• suburb
• elective belonging
• selective belonging
• new mobilities paradigm
• social class
• youth
• middle-class newcomers
• belonging
• mobility
• Nation
• research
• Transnational
• urban geography and urbanism

• University of London, Birkbeck, UK

  Paul Watt

• VU University, Amsterdam, Netherlands

  Peer Smets

Alberta Andreotti, University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy Anna Bohlin, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Francisco Javier Moreno Fuentes, Spanish National Research Council Maria Assunção Gato, University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal Angela Giglia, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico Annemette Hellinga, SmartAgent, The Netherlands Rupa Huq, Kingston University, UK Katarzyna Kajdanek, University of Wroclaw, Poland Roger Keil, York University in Toronto, Canada Patrick Le Galès, Sciences Po Paris, France Elias le Grand, Stockholm University, Sweden Gareth Millington, University of York, UK Nicolas Oppenchaim, University of Tours, France Douglas Young, University of York, UK

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