Journal Article

Between places and flows: towards a new agenda for neighbourhood research in an age of mobility

Wissink, Bart, van Kempen, Ronald

2014

Overview

This article discusses the role of the neighbourhood in an era of increased mobility. It explores the consequences of the \"new mobilities paradigm\", which argues that the growing importance of flows - of people, goods and information - results in a deterritorialization of social practices. Rows thus gain prominence in comparison to places like regions and neighbourhoods. At the same time, however, neighbourhoods continue to play a role in the actions and imaginations of people, neighbourhood organizations, and government policies. People still live in neighbourhoods, and governments still try to solve often severe social problems through neighbourhood policies. We argue that the neighbourhood has to be re-imagined as a collection of hybrid nodes connecting a multiplicity of flows that bind actors and objects in order to understand the potential effectiveness of these policies. From this new mobilities perspective, we make suggestions for future neighbourhood research.

• Publisher: Routledge,Blackwell Publishing Ltd,Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography,Generalstabens litografiska anstlalt
• Subject: Bgi / Prodig / Communities / Cultural anthropology / flows / Government policy / Housing policy / Human geography / Imagination / mobilities / Neighborhoods / neighbourhood / Neighbourhoods / networks / Paradigms / places / Residential segregation / Segregation / Social capital / Social interaction / Social mobility / Social networks / Social problems / The city. Urban growth and morphology / Urban geography / Urban studies