Freedom from the tyranny of neighbourhood : rethinking sociospatial context effects
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28/08/2019Funder
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ERC-2013-CoG
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Abstract
Theory behind neighbourhood effects suggests that people’s spatial context potentially affects individual outcomes across multiple scales and geographies. We argue that neighbourhood effects research needs to break away from the ‘tyranny’ of neighbourhood and consider alternative ways to measure the wider sociospatial context of people, placing individuals at the centre of the approach. We review theoretical and empirical approaches to place and space from diverse disciplines, and explore the geographical scopes of neighbourhood effects mechanisms. Ultimately, we suggest how microgeographic data can be used to operationalise sociospatial context, where data pragmatism should be supplanted by a theory-driven data exploration.
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Petrović , A , Manley , D & van Ham , M 2019 , ' Freedom from the tyranny of neighbourhood : rethinking sociospatial context effects ' , Progress in Human Geography , vol. OnlineFirst . https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132519868767
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Progress in Human Geography
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Peer reviewed
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0309-1325Type
Journal article
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Copyright © 2019 The Author(s). Open Access article. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed.
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The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007-2013) / ERC Grant Agreement n. 615159 (ERC Consolidator Grant DEPRIVEDHOODS, Socio-spatial inequality, deprived neighbourhoods, and neighbourhood effects).Collections
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