Displacement on the Lancaster West Estate in London before, during, and after the Grenfell fire

Rozena, Sharda

doi:10.1080/13604813.2021.2017705

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“…From the 1960s to the 1990s, waves of incoming wealthy professionals pushed up property prices and displaced many working-class residents (Atkinson 2000). Lancaster West has also been subject to 'state-led gentrification' and displacement through the regeneration plans of RBKC, further stigmatizing the estate whilst endorsing the value of urban regeneration for wealthier parts of the borough, rather than for estate residents themselves (Lees, Slater & Wyly 2013;Rozena 2022). An early masterplan favoured demolition, describing how the appearance of Grenfell Tower 'blights much of the area' , and stating that 'most of the existing housing in the area would be demolished to make way for a mix of new and refurbished private, intermediate and social rented homes' (Urban Initiatives 2009: 19, 5).…”

Section: Accumulationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As Sharda Rozena (2022) has so powerfully shown, displacement is not limited to physical removal, but is accretive, another iteration of the processes of layering and accumulation that pervade the neighbourhood. In Rozena's terms, displacement is an amassing of long-drawn-out pressures that build and change over time, eroding a sense of belonging, whilst punctuated by moments of forceful change.…”

Section: Accumulationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In Kensington and Chelsea, ‘managed decline’ enabled council and housing association properties to be deemed ‘non‐viable’ and sold or transferred. For example, between 2014 and 2016, the Notting Hill and Genesis housing associations were permitted to sell 711 ‘low‐cost’ homes and convert 1322 from ‘social’ to ‘affordable rent’ – which, as it is calculated at 80 per cent of the market rate and average rents in the borough are over £3,000 a month, is affordable for very few (MacLeod 2018; Rozena 2022).…”

Section: Accumulationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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After Grenfell: accumulation, debris, and forming failure in London

Smith

2023

Royal Anthropological Inst

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The Grenfell Tower fire in London in 2017 is popularly associated with a litany of failures: political, structural, moral, material. But while the official inquiry has sought to frame the fire as a discrete event, for local residents it is inextricable from accumulated histories of injustice and inequality. Years on, the fire still reverberates, its afterlife constellating with new narratives and politics. Drawing on literature on ruination and remains, as well as methodological theory, this essay examines how the form of failure is never pre‐known but must be made to appear. Through diverse encounters with the tower's debris – material and conceptual – failure is made to matter, acting both backwards and forwards in time. Reflecting on remainders and erasures at the tower site, as well as debates about the parameters of the inquiry, I explore how failure is continually recomposed, becoming both an object of knowledge and an instrument for its formation.

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Section: Accumulationmentioning

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Section: Accumulationmentioning

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Section: Accumulationmentioning

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After Grenfell: accumulation, debris, and forming failure in London

Smith

2023

Royal Anthropological Inst

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“…Tuan (1974) terms this attachment as topophilia, or love of place. But a sense of home is not inevitably positive and affirming (Blunt & Dowling, 2006): indeed, it is Stephanie's attachment to her place that amplifies the real and impending threat of gentrification and being 'priced out' of her local area (Rozena, 2022). Stephanie recalls regularly receiving letters and in-person visits from estate agents trying to influence the intentions of residents.…”

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Love in the space–time of inequality: Attachment and detachment across unequal lives

Strong

2023

The Sociological Review

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This article examines the changing experience of love at a time of deepening inequalities. Drawing on the ‘love story’ of one resident of London’s Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea – arguably the UK’s most unequal space – it builds a relational account of love to describe the forms of attachment and detachment that accompany everyday life in an increasingly divided place. This approach signals three wider contributions. First, by tracing love through life course and life world, this article conceptualises the sustained and far-reaching way inequalities are lived and felt in everyday life. Second, the foregrounding of love stories as methodology highlights the roles of agency and narrative in how we tell and write about inequalities. In drawing these points together, this article thirdly conceptualises inequality as processual, situated and contested – as an emergent process of ‘becoming unequal’ through which we can trace shifting relations between space, time and power.

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“…They also played a major role in the development of 20th-century urban working-class politics and identity, not least in London (McKenzie, 2015; Watt, 2021). However, working-class deprivation and insecurity have been exacerbated by four decades of neoliberal shredding of welfare state provision, which has been especially marked in relation to public/social housing via reduced access, privatisation, landlord negligence, toxic ‘regeneration’ and destructive demolition (Hodkinson, 2019; Lees & Hubbard, 2020; Rozena, 2022; Watt, 2018, 2021, 2022a).…”

Section: Class Feelings and Estate Regenerationmentioning

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Fear and loathing in north London: Experiencing estate regeneration as psychosocial degeneration

Watt

2023

The Sociological Review

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This article analyses residents’ emotional responses to the regeneration – involving demolition and rebuilding – of West Hendon council housing estate in north London. Based on ethnographic research, the article outlines what living on the estate meant for its working-class residents in terms of providing ontological security and place belonging prior to regeneration. The reality of regeneration for residents involved multiple layers of physical, social, symbolic and psychosocial ‘degeneration’. The article’s focus is psychosocial degeneration, which is illustrated through three emotional dimensions: frustration, anger and betrayal arising from broken promises; stress resulting from living near a building site; and displacement anxiety regarding the uncertainties of where and when they would be relocated. The article highlights how residents are emotionally scarred by the protracted, opaque, ever-changing regeneration process. The reality of regeneration/degeneration for residents – involving state-led gentrification – is at stark variance to the official narrative that regeneration entails a smooth, unidirectional trajectory of improving homes and communities.

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Displacement on the Lancaster West Estate in London before, during, and after the Grenfell fire

Cited by 8 publications

References 43 publications

After Grenfell: accumulation, debris, and forming failure in London

After Grenfell: accumulation, debris, and forming failure in London

Love in the space–time of inequality: Attachment and detachment across unequal lives

Fear and loathing in north London: Experiencing estate regeneration as psychosocial degeneration

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