Revolt From the Right

This exchange considers the unrecognised interplay between two major political–economic trends shaping contemporary Europe, namely the upward trend in housing-induced inequalities and rising suppor...

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Housing, Place and Populism: Towards a Research Agenda

The shadow of the Pithead: Understanding social and political attitudes in former coal mining communities in the UK

The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker. By Katherine J. Cramer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016.

‘Place-based explanations’ of politics in the U.K. tell sweeping narratives about ‘Two Englands’, or of sizeable regions of the country that have been ‘Left Behind’, reinforcing popular accounts of a North–South or city-town divide. We introduce the concept of nested deprivation – deprivation that may occur in just one housing estate or even one row of flats within neighbourhoods that are otherwise affluent. We report on intensive fieldwork in 8 neighbourhoods varying in relative affluence and density of population (including urban, suburban/satellite, market town or rural village). Three key themes and consequences emerge for those living in nested deprivation in relatively affluent and geographically dispersed contexts: (a) either disconnection from or entrapment within the local economy; (b) social isolation and atomisation; and (c) powerlessness to affect politics. ‘Place-based’ explanations of rapid and radical changes to political participation in Britain need to take fine-grained geographical distinctions much more seriously. Our study provides evidence that the rising tides in affluent areas are drowning some residents rather than lifting all boats. Where deprivation is dispersed and then nested within mostly affluent constituencies it does not allow for the political mobilisation among communities of interest that is a necessary condition for pluralist representative democracies.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00344893.2020.1751258

Place-based Politics and Nested Deprivation in the U.K.: Beyond Cities-towns, ‘Two Englands’ and the ‘Left Behind’

At the height of austerity in the UK, many writers argued that the public accepted painful debt reduction policies because they chimed with ‘common sense’ experience of personal debt. However, while surveys showed public acceptance of austerity, there was little political research asking people what they believed in any depth. This interpretivist study interviews sixty residents of a southern city and finds that while the political economists were right about the ‘common sense’ of higher-income participants, it was not shared by lower-income participants. They do not believe personal debt and government debt are comparable, that they are caused by profligacy or that debt can be reduced quickly. The study highlights how important it is to conduct interpretivist political research into what people believe.

What Do UK Citizens Understand About Austerity

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Place-based Politics and Nested Deprivation in the U.K.: Beyond Cities-towns, ‘Two Englands’ and the ‘Left Behind’

What Do UK Citizens Understand About Austerity