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Social mixing or mixophobia in regenerating East London? ‘Affordable housing’, gentrification, stigmatisation and the post-Olympics East Village
Get PDFThis paper examines socio-spatial inequalities with reference to the post-Olympics East Village – the former Athletes’ Village – located in Stratford in the London Borough of Newham. The East Village neighbourhood has been praised within urban policy circles because of its mixed-tenure housing, including a relatively high percentage of ‘affordable housing’. It is also claimed to be a space of social mixing, including in relation to the rest of East London. This paper examines these claims with reference to research undertaken at the East Village with residents and officials. Survey data reveals how East Village is a majority white neighbourhood with a large professional-managerial ‘salariat’, and as such is quite distinct in both class and ethnic terms from the rest of Stratford and Newham. These social differences are reflected in the interview data which examine how ‘othering’ processes occur on the part of middle-class East Village residents, both externally in relation to the rest of Stratford, but also internally within East Village itself. These residents display a ‘mixophobic’ (Bauman, 2013) reaction towards Stratford via territorial stigmatisation, and towards East Village social renters via housing tenure stigmatisation. The aims of social mixing and affordable housing are far from being realised within the East Village regeneration scheme
'This Face of Glee...This Terrifying Sound': Sean Bonney Through the Soundhole, Where Bonney IS
Get PDFThis article delineates Sean Bonney’s ambivalence towards 20th Century sound poetry and his complex relationship with sound and visual poet Bob Cobbing (1920-2002). To do this the article reads one of Bonney’s early poems ‘For Bob, Cobbing Through the Soundhole, Where Cobbing IS’ – a poem Bonney read at Cobbing’s funeral – alongside Our Death, Bonney’s last book. The way Bonney responded to Cobbing’s life and death may offer a guide to how we respond to Our Death after Bonney’s. In their shared commitment to counter state violence, the article identifies an anti-Thatcherite politics alongside a poetics of vulnerability and hospitality, which they extend to each other, to the interned, the displaced and the dispossessed
Carola Lentz / Marie-Christin Gabriel: Das Goethe-Institut. Eine Geschichte von 1951 bis heute, Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta 2021
No full textArt and architecture in Medieval East Central Europe
No full textBook synopsis: Features research on medieval Central Europe conducted in local languages, bridging regional and international audiences.
Offers English-language readers a critical, reflective summary of the most recent scholarship on the region's history and culture.
Presents a comparative study of diverse, sometimes mutually opposing, national interpretations of the region's past.
Accounts for the region's peripheries and relations with the surrounding world
Have quadruple and quintuple helices emerged? Metaphors, project titles, and empirical research
Get PDFIn the original triple helix model (Etzkowitz and Leydesdorff 1995), the three “helices” of Universities, Industry and Government and the (3-way) interactions among and between them were proposed as a basis for looking at how entrepreneurship comes into being. Since the original paper, other “helix-based” models have been proposed. Some vary the triple and others propose higher numbers of helix –-with 4 and 5as the most typical extensions. In the paper “Triple, Quadruple, and Higher-Order Helices: Historical Phenomena and (Neo-) Evolutionary Models,” Leydesdorff & Lawton Smith (2022) developed an Information-Theory based approach to look more formally at the need for higher order helices.
In the case of two helices, processes of mutual shaping can generate historical trajectories that could have been otherwise: other options providing possible states, which have not yet historically been realized (Petersen et al., 2016). Adding a third helix makes a substantive change from an information point of view: a triple helix model is not just the sum of three sets of 2 -way interactions. However, once this number has been reached further additions can be decomposed into sets of triads (Batagelj et al., 2014; Simmel, 1902). This leads to the suggestion that higher- dimensional helix structures potentially add little to discourse.
Four (sets of) authors were asked by the Editors of the Triple Helix to respond to Leydesdorff & Lawton Smith (2022). Many insightful and interesting points were raised including convenience, presentation and the need to allow a more unified theory model. These are discussed in this paper’s “responses to just criticism” (Shostakovich, 1937). It continues the debate on triple and higher-order helices by summarising and responding to the points made by those commentators. What may be the status of triple and/or higher-order helices
Life imprisonment in mature adulthood: adaptation, risk, and reform later in the life course
Get PDFRecent theorisations of adaptation to life imprisonment emphasise the role of moral and biographical reflection by people in prison. Using an analysis of a subsample from a larger study in England and Wales, composed of men serving life sentences imposed after their fortieth birthdays, this article suggests that they adapted themselves to the prison regime both more quickly and more pragmatically than their younger counterparts. It describes how their accounts of the index offence, which were often justificatory and sometimes victim-blaming, had often gone unchallenged because they were a low priority for intervention, and less motivated by working towards an (imagined) better future. These findings add nuance to recent work in prison sociology of adaptation to very long sentences
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