Clare Kinsella - Urban Regeneration and Neoliberalism: The New Liverpool Home

This book explores the concept of home in Liverpool over phases of regeneration following the Second World War. Using qualitative research in the oral history tradition, it explores what the author conceptualises as forward-facing regeneration in the period up to the 1980s, and neoliberal regeneration interventions that prioritise the past from the 1980s to the present. The author examines how the shift towards city centre-focused redevelopment and event-led initiatives has implications for the way residents make sense of their conceptualisations of home, and demonstrates how the shift in regeneration focus, discourse, and practice, away from Liverpools neighbourhood districts and towards the city centre, has produced changes in the ways that residents identify with neighbourhoods and the city centre, with prominence being given to the latter. Employing Pierre Bourdieus concepts of habitus and field as mechanisms for understanding different senses of home and shifts from localised views to globalised views, this book will appeal to those with interests in urban sociology, regeneration, geography, sociology, home cultures, and cities.