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Author Bissett, John (Community worker), author.

Title It's not where you live, it's how you live : class and gender struggles in a Dublin estate / John Bissett
Published Bristol : Policy Press, 2023
©2023

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Description 1 online resource (x, 145 pages)
Contents Front Matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction -- Ethnography -- Should I stay or should I go? -- Work ethic 1 -- Work ethic 2 -- The food chain -- Means ends -- What goes around comes around -- Fragile beings -- The word -- Critical realism and public housing -- From manifest phenomena to generative structures -- Class as the production of scarcity: wage, price, debt, food -- Women and the affective domain of the Bridgetown Estate -- Class geography: part of no part -- References -- Index
Summary This ground-breaking and compelling book shows in fine detail the life struggles of those who live on a public housing estate in Dublin. Combining long-term research into residents' lived experience with critical realist theory, it provides a completely fresh perspective on public housing in Ireland and arguably, beyond
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed on February 08, 2023)
Subject City and town life -- Ireland -- Dublin
Public housing -- Ireland -- Dublin
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development.
City and town life
Public housing
Social conditions
Society & culture: general.
Society.
SUBJECT Dublin (Ireland) -- Social conditions
Subject Ireland -- Dublin
Form Electronic book
ISBN 144736824X
9781447368243
9781447368236
1447368231