Proposing to narrow spatial inequalities in one of the most unbalanced economies in the
developed world, the Levelling Up agenda was a key driving force behind the Conservative …

Couched in work on territory, discourse and symbolic power, this paper examines how
dominant representations and classifications of settlement types are produced by …

This paper draws on a multimethod ethnographic study, conducted between 2016 and 2017
in Shirebrook, Derbyshire, England—a small and relatively isolated deindustrialising colliery …

In this forum paper, we question the lasting utility of the framework and language of urban
post-industrialism. We suggest that, while such conceptual metaphors are useful to …

Loïc Wacquant's work on the production and reproduction of socio‐spatial inequalities in
Chicago and La Courneuve has inspired a literature on how imaginaries of low‐income …

This article shows that the unemployed are broadly supportive of welfare reforms which
have led to increased poverty; exacerbated ill health; led some to engage in 'survival …

Luger and Schwarze's (2024) forum paper provides a welcome invitation to reassess the
ongoing value of the post-industrial concept for urban studies. The paper's opening …

Discourses of cultural regeneration have proliferated in recent years. Culture, it is argued,
provides a means of revitalizing the social, physical and economic fortunes of towns and …

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Concealed Stigmatization Thesis for Doctoral Degree (Ph.D) By Kim Roelofs The thesis will be …

Luger and Schwarze's critical unsettling of postindustrial is a presciently welcome one. For
some years now, I—and others—have become increasingly uncomfortable with referring to …