Mobilities and Neighbourhood Belonging in Cities and Suburbs [Hardcover]

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.1. Introduction; Paul Watt and Peer Smets 2. Local and Transnational Everyday Practices in Four European Cities: Are New Barbarians on the Road?; Alberta Andreotti, Patrick Le Gal?s and Francisco Javier Moreno Fuentes 3. Consumption Practices and Local Belonging among Condominium Residents in Mexico City; Angela Giglia 4. Living in an (Un)gated Community: Neighbourhood Belonging in Lisbon's Parque das Na??es; Maria Assun??o Gato 5. Belonging and Micro-Settings in a Rotterdam Housing Complex; Peer Smets and Annemette Hellinga 6. Neighbours, Newcomers and Nation-Building: Producing Neighbourhood as Locality in a Post-Apartheid Cape Town Suburb; Anna Bohlin 7. East London Mobilities: The Cockney Diaspora and the Remaking of the Essex Ethnoscape; Paul Watt, Gareth Millington and Rupa Huq 8. Teenagers' Mobilities and Sense of Belonging in the Parisian Sensitive Urban Areas; Nicolas Oppenchaim 9. Class, Community and Belonging in a 'Chav Town'; Elias le Grand 10. Newcomers vs. Old-Timers? Community, Co-operation and Conflict in the Post-Socialist Suburbs of Wroclaw, Poland; Katarzyna Kajdanek 11. In-Between Mobility in Toronto's New (Sub)urban Neighbourhoods; Roger Keil and Douglas Young 12. Conclusion; Paul Watt and Peer SmetsAlberta Andreotti, University of Milan-Bicocca, ItalyAnna Bohlin, University of Gothenburg, SwedenFrancisco Javier Moreno Fuentes, Spanish National Research CouncilMaria Assun??o Gato, University Institute of Lisbon, PortugalAngela Giglia, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, MexicoAnnemette Hellinga, SmartAgent, The NetherlandsRupa Huq, Kingston University, UKKatarzyna Kajdanek, University of Wroclaw, PolandRoger Keil, York Universlc£