Lost in the ‘churn’? Locating neighbourliness in a transient neighbourhood

• Published in: Environment and planning. A Vol. 48; no. 8; pp. 1599 - 1616
• Main Author: Burrell, Kathy
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London, England SAGE Publications 01.08.2016
• Subjects: Inner city; Neighborhoods; Population; Social psychology; British Isles; British Isles, England, Leicester; churn; Neighbourliness; place; conviviality; materiality

This article considers the importance of everyday encounters in underpinning sociality, focusing especially on the located and material aspects of social relations. Bringing together debates about social relations, place attachment and population turnover (or ‘churn’), and using research carried out...