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Getting By: Estates, Class and Culture in Austerity Britain de Lisa McKenzie

Getting By: Estates, Class and Culture in Austerity Britain

Autor Lisa McKenzie Introducere de Danny Dorling Cuvânt după de Owen Jones
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 ian 2015
Over the past thirty years, the United Kingdom’s poor have become increasingly stigmatized, while many poor communities have become the subject of great public concern and media scorn. In this book, Lisa Mckenzie offers rare insight into life in one of these neighborhoods, St Ann’s Estate in Nottingham. Notorious for containing many of the city’s gangs, guns, and drugs, the area is also known as the place where the unemployed and the feckless take up as long-term residents. As a former inhabitant of St Ann’s, Mckenzie is able to delve into a community often wary of outsiders, providing an important account of the effects of recent policy changes and the complexities faced by those living in poor neighborhoods in contemporary Britain.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781447309956
ISBN-10: 1447309952
Pagini: 224
Ilustrații: illustrations
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Bristol University Press
Colecția Policy Press

Notă biografică

Lisa Mckenzie is a research fellow in the Department of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Cuprins

Foreword by Danny Dorling


Introduction


Being and belonging: the importance of narrative


‘Being St Ann's’: an alternative value system


‘Passing by’: family and community


‘A little bit of sugar’: a discussion of taste


‘The roof is on fire’: despair, fear and civil unrest


‘On Road, don’t watch’


Conclusion


Afterword by Owen Jones

Recenzii

“Enticing and inspiring in its authentic, emotionally charged honesty. . . . Getting By aims to challenge the stereotypes and ‘happy with their lot’ myths that patronize the complexity of human experience and emotion. An insider as well as a scholar, Mckenzie confronts the simplistic, judgmental ways that council estates and those in them are so often presented, via the stories of people who don’t merely survive, but who are resourceful, resilient, and brave. . . . Mckenzie writes without a shred of sentimentality, but with a conviction and passion that never allow us to be emotionless spectators. She hits out at the stigmas—gangs, drugs, guns, single mothers—applied by those on the ‘outside’ to communities such as this. The narratives are not only recounted with humor, love, and care but are also grounded in social and cultural context. She exposes the contradictions and complexities lived by the people of St Ann’s, and shows them trying to make sense of them from their place in a society built on inequality of opportunity and choice. . . . Her voice and those she presents here need to be brought to other silenced communities, to inspire their inhabitants to tell their own stories and put voices of resistance into the public domain.”

“Mckenzie has managed to transform several academic pieces of work into an accessible book full of humanity and honesty about St Ann’s and some of the people who live there.”

“The book excels in bringing to life the realities of life lived in hard circumstances and the ways in which people respond to troubling experiences and harsh life conditions.”

“A book that pulls no punches about its politics and commitment to challenging the anti-working class hatreds that are so prevalent in the United Kingdom today.”

"I recommend Getting By to anyone searching for a more complex and authentic picture of life in poor neighbourhoods than that depicted in the barrage of increasingly banal selection of TV programmes which dominate our screens." 

“McKenzie did not try to paint an idyllic view of the council estate with its ethnic tensions across families that settled many generations ago. However, her ethnography, which describes a mixed race community facing racism and endogamy from the middle classes, balances the narrow-minded view that often associates lower classes with racism.”

“A very personal approach to the topic of low-income working-class families in poorer communities in the context of the gradual implementation of austerity measures in Britain. . . . [McKenzie] leads the reader to examine their own understanding of the working class by challenging the stigma attached to this identity and by representing this silenced community in modern Britain.”

“This book challenges social scientists to think again about how working-class life on urban estates is portrayed, both academically and in the mainstream media.”

“The stories within this book lay bare what it means to be regarded as inferior and an outcast in your own society. This is a resolutely impressive book written with authenticity and passion.”

“Essential reading for twenty-first-century Britain.”

“As a child of St Ann’s and son of Jamaican immigrants, this is one of the most powerful celebrations of working-class and multicultural Britain I have ever read. I challenge you to read this book and not be ignited by a range of emotions such as sadness, anger, pleasure and joy. Read and enjoy. I did.”

“A very fine ethnography of life in austerity Britain, charting the resilience and creativity of the community it describes, as well as their injuries and mistreatment by others.”

“Who am I to pass comment on this book? But that’s the trick they play on you isn’t it. We are all used, processed, slashed, but the under class, the worker, well they are thoroughly abused.”

“An essential antidote to media and governmental depictions of poverty, drawing on the powerful voices of working-class people themselves.”

“A moving portrait of stigma and inequality that shows, powerfully, why we must put value at the centre of class analysis.”

“A heart-wrenching, eminently readable, powerful book, uncovering incredibly resourceful survival strategies for staying human in conditions of inhumanity.”