The places where community is practiced : how store owners and their businesses build neighborhood social life / Anna Steigemann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Steigemann, Anna, author.

Series:

Stadt, Raum und Gesellschaft

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Community life.

Stores, Retail--Social aspects.

Stores, Retail.

Physical Description:

xiii, 325 pages : illustrations, maps (some color) ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Wiesbaden, Germany : Springer VS Open, [2019]

Summary:

In this open access publication, the social cohesion of urban neighborhoods and their residents is examined, which is often viewed as vulnerable since increased mobility, individualization, wider socio-economic and demographic changes have fundamentally altered the basis for everyday social interaction in urban neighborhoods. Anna Steigemann gives scholarly attention to the concrete places where neighborly interactions still take place and to how these interactions affect local community building. She illuminates and explores the ordinary everyday interactions and social practices in and around shops and gastronomic facilities on a shopping street in Berlin-Neukölln, revealing how these businesses are important places where community is practiced, but also why they are increasingly threatened by commercial and residential gentrification.

Contents:

Social Life and Trade on a Metropolitan Shopping Street

Sensitizing Theoretical Concepts and Social Practice Approach

Ethnographic Research Design for the Study of Local Businesses

The Social and Spatial Context of the Case Businesses

Businesses as Third Places

Store Owners on a Gentrifying Street: Public Characters that Offer "More".

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-325)

Other Format:

Electronic version: Steigemann, Anna. Places where community is practiced.

ISBN:

3658253924

9783658253929

OCLC:

1083033278