Getting away with it? Exposing the geographies of the super-rich

Beaverstock, Jonathan V.; Hubbard, Phil; Short, John Rennie

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2004.03.001

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“…Academic analysis on this topic gained momentum since the call by Beaverstock et al (2004) to carry out more research on the geographies of the super-rich. Meanwhile, the global credit crunch from 2007 and the global financial crisis have led to job losses, house price stagnation and the depreciation of pension funds for ordinary citizens, including those in the PIIGS (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain), the US and the UK.…”

Section: Transnational Elite and Middleclass Investment In Londonmentioning

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Looking for big ‘fry’: The motives and methods of middle-class international property investors

Atkinson

2017

Urban Studies

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Anxieties about the effects of international property investment in world cities like London have mainly focused on super-rich investors and corporate vehicles that have generated price inflation of assets and accelerated exclusion from an already expensive market. In fact, many international investors in the city's housing market are middle-class individuals, and focusing on Hong Kong as an emblematic example of such processes, we examine their motives and the products offered to them by important investment intermediaries. We find that an important rationale for these investments lies in local class-based uncertainties and existential anxieties concerning the future of Hong Kong itself. We focus on the cultural roots of these investor rationalities but also consider the role of investment intermediaries who have helped bolster confidence while shielding investors from the consequences of their aggregated market power -concerns in London over household displacement from foreign investment. We suggest that what may seem to be the predatory search to 'fry' property ( ), a Hongkonger colloquialism referring to the search for high performing investments, should also be understood as actions anchored in and generated by the habitus of the Hong Kong middle class whose lives have been moulded by historical geopolitical uncertainty and worries about its longer-term social positioning and security.

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Section: Transnational Elite and Middleclass Investment In Londonmentioning

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Looking for big ‘fry’: The motives and methods of middle-class international property investors

Atkinson

2017

Urban Studies

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“…Similar to the airport where passenger flows are spatially segregated by 'class' with high-paying executive and club-class passengers being channelled through different parts of the airport to economy passengers (Beaverstock, Hubbard and Rennie Short 2004), many larger stations have first-class lounges, waiting rooms and meeting rooms. These elite spaces are restricted to passengers holding first-class tickets and offer refreshments, soft comfortable seating and an 'oasis of calm'; an atmosphere of sanctuary reminiscent of an airport prayer room (Kraftl and Adey 2008).…”

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Conceptualising differently-mobile passengers: geographies of everyday encumbrance in the railway station

Bissell

2009

Social & Cultural Geography

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This paper develops ideas of differential mobility at the scale of the 'everyday' by investigating some of the complex relationships between mobility and immobility; facilitation and encumbrance when moving through railway stations. Drawing on in-depth qualitative research with rail passengers in Britain, the first section explores the entangled relationship between differently-mobile bodies and the station by considering some of the tensions that emerge between experiences of encumbrance and facilitation. Focus here is on how navigating through the station with different mobile objects, or 'prostheses', impacts on passengers in a variety of ways. Drawing on insights from science, technology and society studies, it demonstrates how moving with different objects gives rise to fluid apprehensions of both mobile objects and the built form of the station itself. However, and importantly, this section suggests that this fluidity also has the capacity to disrupt the intended affective dimensions of the built form. The second section explores how differently-mobile passengers move through the station with these mobile objects. Drawing on de Certeau's notion of 'tactics' and Ingold's idea of the 'taskscape', this section pulls out some of the practical knowledges that, through repetition, develop into skills and techniques for moving. In doing so, this paper seeks to illuminate some of the complex relationships between mobility, prosthetics, encumbrance and affectivity that emerge when moving through the railway station.

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“…Jednymi z pierwszych, którzy zwrócili uwagę geografom na potrzebę szczegółowych badań przestrzennych grupy najbogatszych (super-rich), zdefiniowanych jako osoby z aktywami powyżej 1 mln dol., byli J.V. Beaverstock, P. Hubbard i J.R. Short (2004).…”

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Milionerzy – nowa grupa społeczna w regionie łódzkim

Dzieciuchowicz

2016

SSE

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Przedmiotem tego opracowania jest przede wszystkim struktura przestrzenna milionerów w województwie łódzkim i jej zmiany w 2014 roku. Analizie poddano również ważniejsze rodzaje działalności gospodarczej osób najbogatszych. Na przykładzie Antoniego Ptaka przedstawiono drogę kariery społeczno-zawodowej przedstawicieli tej grupy społecznej. Problematyka ta jest rozważana na tle pozycji przypisanej najbogatszym elitom w teorii struktur i zmian społecznych, a także rankingów osób najzamożniejszych w Polsce i na świecie. Uwzględnione zostały przy tym dwie kategorie milionerów wyróżnione w oparciu o kryterium dochodowe i majątkowe. Cel pracy stanowi ustalenie wyróżniających właściwości struktury przestrzennej i układów terytorialnych cechujących najzamożniejszych mieszkańców województwa łódzkiego, dynamiki zmian ich liczebności, jak też głównych dziedzin aktywności ekonomicznej.

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Getting away with it? Exposing the geographies of the super-rich

Cited by 127 publications

References 12 publications

Looking for big ‘fry’: The motives and methods of middle-class international property investors

Looking for big ‘fry’: The motives and methods of middle-class international property investors

Conceptualising differently-mobile passengers: geographies of everyday encumbrance in the railway station

Milionerzy – nowa grupa społeczna w regionie łódzkim

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