Wasting the Inner-city: Waste, Value and Anthropology on the Estates

摘要: This thesis considers the social implications of urban regeneration from an anthropological perspective centred on concepts waste and value. It is concerned with symbolic devaluation people, their homes communities inner-city estates in south-east London. process course nothing new, as extensive literature gentrification both UK around world, by anthropologists scientists general, testifies. The originality lies connecting large scale programmes to small scale, everyday processes dealing people’s homes, communally estates. The ethnography connects these two levels showing how those who live often lack most basic tools – such lifts that work, or doors open, space kitchens engage recycling themselves, meaning they are excluded ‘othered’ a morally loaded value-creating circuit which feeds into representation intrinsically worthless ‘other’. Meanwhile, very same residents community building lives, producing reproducing sociable spaces care deeply about, even though within confines framework only recognises value what privately, individually owned, epitomised ‘Right Buy’ policy has affected housing England for past thirty years, residents' efforts either misread ignored charge thus challenges misrepresentation its main set respondents working class, poor, ethnically diverse dwellers - valueless labels attached them not just media popular culture, but also officers, policies politicians, interviewed interrogated at length thesis. Furthermore, it questions alleged parallels between recycling. easy understand why local authorities developers would wish adopt terminology apply programmes, presenting related positive connotations improvement recovery old, be people homes. shows instead practice more akin wasting buying established moved out then demolished, wasted, new middle class incomers welcomed bought anew?