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Urban Regeneration and Neoliberalism The New Liverpool Home

By Clare Kinsella Copyright 2021
238 Pages
by Routledge

238 Pages
by Routledge

238 Pages
by Routledge

This book explores the concept of ‘home’ in Liverpool over phases of ‘regeneration’ following the Second World War. Using qualitative research in the oral history tradition, it explores what the author conceptualises as ‘forward-facing’ regeneration in the period up to the 1980s, and neoliberal regeneration interventions that ‘prioritise the past’ from the 1980s to the present. The author... Read more

1. Introduction: Regeneration and The Making of Home in Liverpool

2. The Meaning(s) of Home

3. Introducing Liverpool and The Liverpool Home

4. 1950s and 1960s Regeneration: Obliterating Obsolescence and Building a Liverpool for the Future

5. Back in Time for the Future: ‘Backward Facing’ Regeneration in Liverpool from 1980

6. The Liverpool Home in the ‘Forward Facing’ Era

7. The Liverpool Home in the ‘Backward Facing’ Era

8. Pierre Bourdieu, Habitus and the ‘New’ Liverpool Home

9. Conclusion

Appendix: Pen Portraits

Biography

Clare Kinsella is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Edge Hill University, UK. Her research interests include cities and urban regeneration, home and homelessness, space and place, policing, fear of crime, and gender, sexuality, and crime.