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It's not where you live, it's how you live : class and gender struggles in a Dublin estate / John Bissett.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bissett, John (Community worker), author.
- Series:
- Policy Press scholarship online.
- Policy Press scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sociology, Urban--Ireland--Dublin.
- Sociology, Urban.
- Public housing--Ireland--Dublin.
- Public housing.
- Planned communities--Ireland--Dublin.
- Planned communities.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 145 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol : Policy Press, 2023.
- Summary:
- This ground-breaking and compelling book shows in fine detail the life struggles of those who live on a public housing estate in Dublin. Combining long-term research into residents' lived experience with critical realist theory, it provides a completely fresh perspective on public housing in Ireland and arguably, beyond.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Introduction
- Ethnography
- Should I stay or should I go?
- Work ethic 1
- Work ethic 2
- The food chain
- Means ends
- What goes around comes around
- Fragile beings
- The word
- Critical realism and public housing
- From manifest phenomena to generative structures
- Class as the production of scarcity: wage, price, debt, food
- Women and the affective domain of the Bridgetown Estate
- Class geography: part of no part
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 17 Jan 2024).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-4473-6825-8
- 1-4473-6824-X
- OCLC:
- 1356575771
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