How the Other Half Lives

Interconnecting Socio-Spatial Inequalities

Samuel Burgum, Katie Higgins

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English

Manchester University Press
22 March 2022

Poverty & unemployment; Urban communities; Sociology; Human geography

How the other half lives interrogates contemporary social and spatial inequalities in housing, urban design, place-making, austerity, notions of deservedness and transnational mobility.

We are, all of us, intimately familiar with inequalities. Whether finding somewhere to live, walking in the street, following the news, negotiating international travel, or in our working and personal lives, subtle and crude hierarchies shape our lived experience. How the other half lives contributes detailed, multidisciplinary, and qualitative explorations of the everyday social and spatial realities of inequality, drawing new lines from Manchester to Milan, from Brighton to Bologna. How the other half lives is a resource to navigate an unequal world, oriented around three key understandings of inequality as contingent, as intersectional, and as interrelated.

The book focuses attention on the differences, similarities, and in-between points where 'the other halves' meet, to provoke new and useful perspectives on inequalities. It considers the connections between the accumulation of profound wealth and impoverished communities, the banal decisions by those in the seats of power and increasing levels of violence in austerity-wracked neighbourhoods, and between a world of smooth mobility and oppressive borders.

How the other half lives is uniquely structured as a series of oppositions between peaks and troughs, with each chapter focusing on a specific subject, including: housing, urban design, place-making, the state, cultures of inequality, and transnational mobility.

With a preface from the Guardian's Zoe Williams and concluding remarks from Professor Rowland Atkinson, this book will appeal to undergraduates and academic readers in the social sciences who are interested in contemporary social and spatial inequalities.

Edited by: Samuel Burgum, Katie Higgins
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 431g
ISBN: 9781526146557
ISBN 10: 152614655X
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 22 March 2022
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Samuel Burgum is a Lecturer in Sociology at Birmingham City University Katie Higgins is a Research Fellow in the Department of Social Policy and Intervention at the University of Oxford