http://hdl.handle.net/2173/12465 Mon, 20 May 2013 11:30:10 GMT 2013-05-20T11:30:10Z http://hdl.handle.net/2173/89138 Title: On the social relations of contract research production: power, positionality and epistemology in housing and urban research Authors: Allen, Christopher Abstract: The growing interest in reflexive social science has been matched by a voluminous literature on the epistemological consequences of positionality in social research. Inter-subjectivist approaches to positionality emphasise how social interactions within the field produce ‘interpretative moments’ and thereby consciously affect the process of knowledge production. Objectivist approaches to positionality emphasise the ‘background thinking’ that social researchers carry into the field, unexamined, as occupants of social positions that are class, gender etc. based. It follows that this (class, gendered) background thinking unconsciously influences the process of knowledge production. However, since this literature has had little impact on the field of housing and urban research, its relevance to these fields remains to be established and vice versa. In this paper, I discuss both of these approaches and find them helpful but limited in their relevance to housing and urban research. Since housing and urban research tends to be undertaken on behalf of ‘policy funders’, I argue that constant exposure to the ‘disciplinary gaze’ of those funders means that the positionality of housing and urban researchers is also moulded during the course of the academic career. This means that the positionality of housing and urban researchers is not simply established within the field nor carried into the field. Rather, the positionality of housing and urban researchers develops over time of constant exposure to the ‘disciplinary gaze’ of research funders and manifests itself in what Foucault refers to as ‘docility’, i.e. research practices intuitively and uncritically oriented to satisfying the needs and demands of research funders. I draw on my own research career experiences to demonstrate this argument and, in doing so, show how my docility manifested itself during recent ‘policy funded’ research into the housing and urban problems of visual impaired children. Description: This article was originally published following peer-review in Housing Studies, published by and copyright Routledge. Tue, 01 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2173/89138 2005-11-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2173/81273 Title: Snakes and leaders: hegemonic masculinity in ruling-class boys’ boarding schools Authors: Poynting, Scott; Donaldson, Mike Abstract: Recent events in a ruling-class boys’ boarding school college in Sydney prompted public discussion about “bullying.” Debate ranged between those seeing an endemic problemto be cured and those who saw minor, unfortunate, and atypical incidents in a system where bullying is under control. It is argued here that such practice is inherent in ruling-class boys’ education. It is an important part of making ruling-class men. Using life-history methods with available biographical material, the article shows thatruling-class schooling of boys in boarding schools involves “sending away” and initial loneliness, bonding in groups demanding allegiance, attachment to tradition, subjection to hierarchy and progress upward through it, group ridiculing and punishment of sensitiveness and close relationships, severe sanctions against difference, brutal bodily discipline, and inculcating competitive individualism. Brutalization and “hardening” are essential to all these processes and are characteristic of ruling-class masculinity. Description: Full-text of this article is not available in this e-prints service. This article was originally published following peer-review in Men and masculinities, published by and copyright Sage. Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2173/81273 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2173/12417 Title: Young people’s participation in the renaissance of public space - a case study in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Authors: Rogers, Peter Abstract: Clear tensions are apparent in the assessment and participation of young people in the cities of today, particularly in relation to changing decision-making structures in design-led regeneration strategies in contemporary city centers. These strategies are often driven by economic rather than civic imperatives, raising questions about the systems of participation and consultation throughout the regeneration process. This paper assesses these tensions by first giving a broad policy context to the “urban renaissance” and “Youth Matters” policy guidance in the UK and then grounding this with reference to an empirical case study of redevelopment targeting young people in the city center of Newcastle upon Tyne. This addresses both the explicit inclusion of young people as well as the implicit exclusion of youth from key spaces and decisions. Wed, 27 Jun 2007 15:08:59 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2173/12417 2007-06-27T15:08:59Z http://hdl.handle.net/2173/12416 Title: Moral panics and urban renaissance Authors: Rogers, Peter; Coaffee, Jon Abstract: As cities around the world are re-shaped by urban renewal policies underpinned by a concern with enhancing quality of life, tensions inevitably arise about whose quality of life is enhanced, and at whose expense? In this piece, Rogers and Coaffee critically interrogate the effects of quality of life policies which target UK city centres. Their particular concern here is with the exclusion of young people from the spaces of the city and from the policy processes which seek to re-shape those spaces. They explore these issues through an analysis of the ways in which the agencies promoting Newcastle-upon-Tyne's urban renaissance have positioned young people's various uses of the city centre. Their paper highlights the exclusionary consequences of single-minded attempts to enhance quality of life which fail to give recognition to the diversity of lifestyles or urban populations, thereby displacing and dispersing some populations to the margins. Nonetheless, Rogers and Coaffee also find evidence of alternative approaches, which might go some way to fostering a more diverse urban public realm. Description: This metadata relates to an electronic version of an article published as Rogers, P. and Coaffee, J. Moral panics and urban renaissance. City, vol. 9, no. 3., pp. 321-340. City is available online at informaworldTM at http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=t713410570 Thu, 01 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2173/12416 2005-12-01T00:00:00Z