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Neighbours Around the World

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Neighbours Around the World: An International Look at the People Next Door

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Lynda Cheshire

The University of Queensland, Australia

United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China

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Contents

List of Appendix, Tables and Figures

About the Contributors

Jule Benz is a Master’s student at the Institute of Social Sciences at Humboldt-University zu Berlin and student assistant in the sub-project The World Down My Street (C04) of the Collaborative Research Centre Re-Figuration of Spaces (CRC 1265) funded by the German Research Foundation.

Talja Blokland is a Professor in Urban Sociology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. She is Principal Investigator in the sub-project The World Down My Street (C04) of the Collaborative Research Centre Re-Figuration of Spaces (CRC 1265) funded by the German Research Foundation. She has held visiting positions at Yale University and worked at the University of Manchester and various Dutch universities. Her publications include Urban Bonds (2003, Polity), Community as Urban Practice (2017, Polity) and various articles on race and ethnicity in the city, poor neighbourhoods, urban violence, gentrification, the urban middle classes and neighbourhood relations and everyday interactions.

Olga Brednikova is a Sociologist and Leading Researcher at the Center for Independent Sociological Research and an Associate researcher at the Sociological Institute, Federal Center for Theoretical and Applied Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia. Her research interests are in the fields of migration studies, studies of nation-state borders and borderlands, urban studies and neighbouring and the sociology of everyday life. She is an author of about 40 articles. She is a Co-editor of several books, including Micro-urbanism. City in Details (2014) and Living in Two Worlds: Rethinking Transnationalism and Translocality (2020).

Lynda Cheshire is a Sociologist and Head of School in the School of Social Science at the University of Queensland, Australia. Her research explores how people live and interact with one another in contemporary local communities; how structural and policy processes impact upon those communities and the relationships that play out within them; and the consequences of these changing social dynamics for well-being, feelings of attachment to home and place, conflict, social exclusion and cohesion. She has published her work extensively in Urban Studies, Housing Studies and other leading journals and is author of Governing Rural Development (2006, Ashgate) and co-editor of Rural Governance: International Perspectives (2007, Routledge).

Dilruba Erkan is a Ph.D. candidate at the University Paris 1. Panthéon - Sorbonne, France in urban geography and the University of Vienna in urban sociology. For her research, she uses both quantitative and qualitative methods to investigate the intricate relation between the social composition and transformation of the urban realm in a comparative manner. Her research interests include urban transformation, urban policy, gentrification, migration, transnationalism, and comparative urban research. Besides research, she is engaged in outreach and science communication, data, and theory visualizations.

Michael Friesenecker is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Vienna, Austria, and is interested in urban redevelopment policies, socio-spatial inequalities and gentrification.

Daniela Krüger is a PhD student in the Department of Urban and Regional Sociology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Research Associate in the sub-project The World Down My Street (C04) of the Collaborative Research Centre Re-Figuration of Spaces (CRC 1265) funded by the German Research Foundation. In her PhD, she asks how the state cares in the unequal city and relates care theory to urban sociology and medical frontline work.

Margarethe Kusenbach is a Professor of Sociology at the University of South Florida, USA. Her research interests include urban and community sociology, social psychology (identity and emotions), disasters and environment, as well as qualitative research methods. She has published widely and internationally on these topics. Over the past several years, her research has focussed on issues of home and belonging among mobile home residents and lifestyle migrants, while her current work investigates the intersection of street art and urban development in US and European cities.

Tatiana Moreira de Souza is a Lecturer in Planning at the University of Liverpool, UK. She holds a first degree in Architecture and Urbanism from the University of São Paulo, Brazil, a MSc in Urban Regeneration and a PhD in Planning Studies from University College London. Her research interests span the areas of housing, planning and urban regeneration, neighbourhoods and communities. Her current research focusses on residents’ experiences of living in neighbourhoods undergoing change and their interactions with neighbours; the meaning of home for private renters; and the policies and regulations affecting rental housing, including short-term lets.

Alan Morris is a Professor of Sociology in the Institute for Public Policy and Governance at the University of Technology Sydney. His research interests include the impacts of housing tenure, gentrification and displacement and urban marginality. His most recent book is The Private Rental Sector in Australia: Living With Uncertainty (2021, co-authored with Hal Pawson and Kath Hulse). In 2019, his book, Gentrification and Displacement: The Forced Relation of Public Housing Tenants in Inner-Sydney, was published by Springer. His book on the impact of housing tenure on older Australians, The Australian Dream: Housing Experiences of Older Australians (CSIRO Publishing), was published in 2016, and A Practical Introduction to In-depth Interviewing was published by SAGE in 2015.

Anupama Nallari is a Research Consultant with a PhD in Environmental Psychology from the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her work lies at the intersections of children’s health and well-being, urban poverty, cities and social justice.

Sarah Neal is a Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociological Studies at the University of Sheffield, UK. She researches and writes in the fields of ethnicity, multiculture, rural and urban social life, community and place. Recent publications include Friendship and Diversity, Class, Ethnicity and Social Relationships in the City (2018, Palgrave, with C. Vincent and H. Iqbal) and Lived Experiences of Multiculture: The New Spatial and Social Relations of Diversity (2017, Routledge, with K. Bennett, A. Cochrane and G. Mohan). She is co-editor (with Karim Murji) of Current Sociology and an editorial board member of Journal of Intercultural Studies and Ethnic and Racial Studies.

Florence Padovani is a Social Scientist working on issues relating to urban planning and population mobility in China, with particular focus on Shanghai, Chongqing and Xi’an. She is interested in the way residents reclaim their common space after cities are transformed due to large energy infrastructure projects (such as the Three Gorges Dam project), economic development (as in Tianzifang) and heritage protection (like in Xi’an). She has undertaken more than two decades of intensive fieldwork in China. She is currently the Director of the Sino-French Research Centre in Social Sciences at Tsinghua University in Beijing.

Ate Poorthuis is an Assistant Professor of Big Data and Human–Environment Systems in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at KU Leuven. His research explores the possibilities and limitations of big data through quantitative analysis and visualisation to better understand how our cities work.

Valentin Regnault is currently studying Social Sciences at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He is working as a Student Assistant at the Department of Urban and Regional Sociology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

Henrik Schultze is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Urban and Regional Sociology at Humboldt-University Berlin and Research Associate in the sub-project The World Down My Street (C04) of the Collaborative Research Centre Re-Figuration of Spaces (CRC 1265) funded by the German Research Foundation. His research interests include social constructions of belonging, social inequalities and qualitative research methods.

Robert Vief is a PhD student in the Department of Urban and Regional Sociology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Research Associate in the sub-project The World Down My Street (C04) of the Collaborative Research Centre Re-Figuration of Spaces (CRC 1265) funded by the German Research Foundation. His research interests include school and residential segregation, neighbourhood effects, the use of infrastructures within cities and quantitative and spatial research methods.

Zheng Wang is a Lecturer in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at The University of Sheffield. His research interests include neighbourhoods, neighbourly relations and community engagement of rural migrants and the long-term social impacts of large-scale urban development projects in urban China. He obtained his PhD degree at the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London, and has been a winner of the RTPI Early Career Researcher Award. He has published in journals including Antipode, Environment and Planning A, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Urban Geography, Population Space and Place and Urban Studies.

Paul Watt is a Professor of Urban Studies in the Department of Geography at Birkbeck, University of London, England. He has published widely on social housing, urban regeneration, neighbourhoods and community, gentrification, suburbanisation, homelessness, displacement and the 2012 London Olympic Games. His most recent book is Estate Regeneration and Its Discontents: Public Housing, Place and Inequality in London (Policy Press). He is an Editorial Board member of the following journals: City and Housing and Society.

Oksana Zaporozhets is currently a visiting researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography in Leipzig. She previously worked as an Associate Professor at the Higher School of Economics in Russia and a Visiting Professor at the European Humanities University in Lithuania. Her current research projects focus on living in the city, including living in new urban areas, building neighbour relations, using new urban public spaces and creating urban imagery including graffiti and street art. She is co-editor of two books on the city life Micro-urbanism: City in Details (2014) and Urban Networks: People, Technologies, Governance (2021).

Acknowledgements

The idea for this edited collection was conceived during a session on neighbouring at the RC21 (Research Committee on Urban and Regional Development) conference in New Delhi, India, in mid-2019. Its preparation took place during most of 2020 and 2021 as the authors, like the rest of the world around them, were forced into bouts of COVID-19-induced home isolation, home schooling, online teaching and worries about their own health and that of their family. I am grateful to them all for their excellent scholarship on neighbours as an everyday and thus important – but sometimes overlooked – feature of urban residential living, their commitment to the project in challenging times and their patience with my editorial efforts. I am also deeply appreciative of the support and assistance of the Emerald editorial/production team and of Nichola Gale whose sharp editorial eye has improved the collection immensely. Finally, I would like to acknowledge all the research participants involved in each individual chapter who consented to their stories and experiences being documented so that we could better understand the phenomenon of the contemporary neighbour. This collection is dedicated to all the good neighbours around the world who make our neighbourhoods, streets and blocks a better place to live in small and large ways.