The sound of the suburbs

Huq, Rupa

doi:10.3898/136266207820465633

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“…Media images of the suburbs tend to portray them as white, middle-class spaces, with very little interruption of this narrative (Muzzio & Halper, 2002). The portrayal of suburbia as either a centre of conformity and cultural homogeneity, or as the ideal living choice for families is entrenched in popular culture in North America, but is not based in the reality of twenty-first century suburbsthese areas tend to be quite multicultural and multi-ethnic (Huq, 2007) (Lee & Hall, 2010). Even the common perception of suburban living as a choice based on lifecycle is inaccurate.…”

Section: Suburban Residentsmentioning

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Barriers to Access: Food Banks in Outer-ring GTA Suburbs

Luyt¹

2022

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Poverty in Greater Toronto Area suburbs is growing at an alarming rate, particularly in the wake of the 2008 recession. One associated outcome is a dramatic increase in residents’ use of food banks. Suburban planning and design makes car ownership necessary to navigate these areas. How, then, do low-income residents address the barrier of transportation when accessing a food bank if they do not have a car? The investigation used qualitative research including a literature review, collection and analysis of data on food banks in the GTA, and interviews with food bank managers and front line workers. The results revealed that reduced access to a car, hours of operation of food banks, and the cultural difference between food bank users and donors in the suburbs are key areas for both long term and short term strategies that could ease the burden of transportation for food bank participants.

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Section: Suburban Residentsmentioning

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Barriers to Access: Food Banks in Outer-ring GTA Suburbs

Luyt¹

2022

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“…High Wycombe seemingly was not. Huq (2007) outlines common associations of suburb and city in which the suburbs are depicted as, among other things, white, quiet, aspirational, conformist. The city on the other hand is presented as a space with ethnic mix, noise, multiple deprivation and decay, and bohemian attitudes etc.…”

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‘No I don’t like where you come from, it’s just a satellite of London’: High Wycombe, the Sex Pistols and the punk transformation

James

2018

Punk &Amp; Post-Punk

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The journey from proto-punk to punk occurred at high speed in many of London's satellite towns. Among these, the town of High Wycombe in the home counties offers a narrative that can trace an involvement in the earliest stages of that journey as a result of performances by leading British punk group the Sex Pistols. This article explores three Sex Pistols-related events that are used to map three clear phases of the proto-punk to punk transformation. The first wave notes the blurred lines in the fluid symbiotic relationships between proto-punk in London and its satellite towns. Drawing on Crossley, I note that London's networked punk 'music world' was reliant on both cultural commuters and activities in the provinces. I propose a further, fluid notion of transivity 1 that shows the relationship between local and 'commuter' punks is needed. The second wave shows the damaging aspect to High Wycombe's punk identity as, due to its close proximity to London, many if its key actors would move to the capital as soon as they were able to. They escaped from the 'boredom' of High Wycombe-the commuter town-to go to the 'excitement' of cosmopolitan London to live their dreams. The third wave reveals a moment of class and regional cohesion, through which a High Wycombe Punk identity emerges during the summer of 1977. This occurs among the first and second wave participants who remained and the newer school-aged punks. Finally, the article introduces the local punk terrain beyond the timeline under investigation. Here, regional and class difference became played out through violent interactions between Wycombe punks and skins, and punk scenes from other towns. Here we see the assertion of 'Wycombe Punk' as a type.

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“…have made multiculture an ordinary feature of social life' (Gilroy 2004: xi;also Keith 2004: 265). These studies therefore suggest that in urban, and also suburban (Huq 2008), areas, racialised associations between whiteness, constructions of place and a sense of legitimate belonging within England are being problematised.…”

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‘I had a hard time actually trying to catch the essence of Englishness’: participant photography and the racialised construction of place and belonging in a South London suburb

Leddy-Owen

2014

Social & Cultural Geography

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The sound of the suburbs

Cited by 5 publications

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Barriers to Access: Food Banks in Outer-ring GTA Suburbs

Barriers to Access: Food Banks in Outer-ring GTA Suburbs

‘No I don’t like where you come from, it’s just a satellite of London’: High Wycombe, the Sex Pistols and the punk transformation

‘I had a hard time actually trying to catch the essence of Englishness’: participant photography and the racialised construction of place and belonging in a South London suburb

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