Wallace, Andrew (2024) Neighbourhood change, deprivation, peripherality and ageing in the Yorkshire coalfield. Social Inclusion, 12:8742. pp. 1-16. ISSN 2183-2803 (Online) (doi:10.17645/si.8742)

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Abstract

Low-income neighbourhoods in contemporary England continue to be buffeted by roiling economic inequalities and social policy absences. Long-term residents have a unique perspective on this socio-spatial stress. This paper zooms in to examine the condition of one spatial manifestation of these broader forces: peripheral council / public housing estates in the deindustrialised North of England – in this case the ex-coalfields of West Yorkshire. Neighbourhood conditions are seen through the eyes of residents aged between 60 and 85 years. The paper explores their accounts of the local economic, social and political changes which have interlaced their experiences of work, community and place over six decades. It also examines how irregular regeneration projects, emergency initiatives and local organising have tried to address and ameliorate structural marginalisation in recent years, not least during the Covid pandemic. The paper provides a historically contingent account of contemporary socio-spatial stress, one that emphasises the significance of long-term residence and feelings of not only loss and nostalgia, but hopeful and resilient attachments to place.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Issue: This article is part of the issue “Neighborhood Residents in Vulnerable Circumstances: Crisis, Stress, and Coping Mechanisms” edited by Peer Smets (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) and Pekka Tuominen (University of Helsinki), fully open access at https://doi.org/10.17645/si.i405.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	coalfields, housing estates, deindustrialisation, marginality, neighbourhoods, oral history
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences > School of Humanities & Social Sciences (HSS)
Last Modified:	11 Oct 2024 10:03
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/48198

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